Retired professor of criminal law, criminology and sociology of law (Universität Bremen, Germany). Alumnus of the University of California, Berkeley (1967). Former director (1995-1997) of the International Institute for the Sociology of Law.
But at heart I am a Bohemian, as in Ingeborg Bachmann's famous definition ("a Bohemian, a vagrant, who has nothing, who is held by nothing, gifted only at seeing, by an embattled sea, the land of my choice").