Ronen Steinke, born in Erlangen, grew up in the then very small Jewish community of Nuremberg. As political editor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, he focuses on civil and human rights in his commentaries, essays and columns. The relationship between law and politics was already the subject of his legal dissertation on war crimes tribunals, which was published in 2011 and which the FAZ praised as a “masterpiece.” His books such as Vor dem Gesetz sind nicht alle gleich: Die neue Klassenjustiz, which became a bestseller in 2022, have sparked political debates. His biography of Fritz Bauer, the prosecutor of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials, published in 2013, was made into an award-winning film and translated into several languages. Since 2023, he has been a lecturer at the Institute for Criminal Science and Philosophy of Law at Goethe University Frankfurt. Together with Susan Neiman, Ronen Steinke is an Honorary Fellow at the Thomas Mann House.


Selected Research Grants/Lectures
 
2023 | Keynote “Jurisprudence and the Common Good” at the Young Conference on Public Law
2022 | Fellow of the Residency Program of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2022 | Appointment to the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Criminal Law
2021 | Hans Kelsen Memorial Lecture in International Peace and Security Law at the University of Cologne
2012 | Guest researcher at the Fritz Bauer Institute on the history and impact of the Holocaust


Selected Publications
 
2022 | Vor dem Gesetz sind nicht alle gleich: Die neue Klassenjustiz. Munich: Piper.
2022 | Anna and Dr Helmy: How an Arab Doctor Saved a Jewish Girl in Hitler's Berlin. Oxford University Press.
2020 | Terror gegen Juden: Wie antisemitische Gewalt erstarkt und der Staat versagt. Munich: Piper.
2020 | Fritz Bauer: The Jewish Prosecutor Who Brought Eichmann and Auschwitz to Trial. Indiana University Press.
2012 | The Politics of International Criminal Justice. Oxford: Hart Publishing.