Dr. h.c.* Michael Bärlein

(* Ehrendoktor der Mongolian University of Arts and Culture)

Michael Bärlein was born in 1944 in Berlin and grew up in Bavaria.

He studied law at the Free University of Berlin, Heidelberg, and Grenoble. While studying, he also managed several fashionable Berlin nightclubs. He performed his apprenticeship in Berlin as well and passed his second state exam in 1973.

After a short period in public service, he opened a practice as attorney and criminal defender in Berlin. Over the course of his long career, Michael Bärlein helped to found several successful law firms, such as Ignor Bärlein Partners. For 16 years, he served a judge on the attorney discipline tribunal in Berlin.

In 2012, he co-founded, with Jakob Danckert and others, the firm Danckert Spiller Richter Bärlein. He has been a partner at the firm DANCKERT BÄRLEIN & PARTNER since 2016.

He is also member of the supervisory board of HMS Bergbau AG, and takes an active part in community sporting and cultural affairs. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Mongolian University of Arts and Culture for his volunteer work in Mongolia.

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Teaching and Lectures

  • Various lectures and training seminars on criminal-law issues in healthcare for doctors and hospital staff
  • Various speeches on corporate crisis management

Memberships

  • Deutscher Anwaltverein (DAV)
  • Vereinigung Berliner Strafverteidiger e.V.
  • Deutsch-Israelische Juristenvereinigung
  • Verband Berliner Kaufleute und Industrieller e.V. (VBKI)
  • Stellv. Vorsitzender des Freundeskreises des Teatro la Fenice e.V.
  • Berliner Wirtschaftsgespräche e.V.

Publications

  • Ketten und Karusselle – Steuerbetrug, in: DATEV-Magazin, Ausgabe 01/2017
  • Michael Bärlein, Markus Englerth, De Pluribus Unum? Unternehmensstrafrecht in Europa, in: Ahlbrecht/Dann/Wessing/Frister/Bock (Hrsg.), Unternehmensstrafrecht, Festschrift für Jürgen Wessing, München 2016, S. 33-54
  • Michael Bärlein, Volkmar Mehle, Aufsichtsrat und Strafrecht, Der Aufsichtsrat 2015, S. 8-9
  • Michael Bärlein, Panos Pananis, Jörg Rehmsmeier, Spannungsverhältnis zwischen der Aussagefreiheit im Strafverfahren und den Mitwirkungspflichten, NJW 2002, S. 1825-1830
  • Michael Bärlein, Stephan Rixen, Babywiegen – Ein Hilfskonzept eigener Art, Kriminalistik 2001, S. 54-56

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