Kay Nehm (born 4 May 1941 in

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) is a German lawyer. He served as

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from 7 February 1994 until 31 May 2006. Nehm studied law at LMU, the

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and the

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. He was appointed a federal judge at the

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in 1991. As an Attorney General, he was widely regarded as having sometimes taken politically unpopular but legally stringent decisions. During his time in office, he investigated the German-based perpetrators of the

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. Since 2014, Nehm has been serving as president of the ''Deutscher Verkehrsgerichtstag''. In 2016, he was appointed by Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure

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to serve on the German government’s Ethics Commission on Autonomous Driving.Member of the Ethics Commission on Autonomous Driving

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, press release of 30 September 2016.

Publications

* ''Straflose Straftaten? Zur Rettung verfassungswidriger Strafgesetze durch Absehen von Strafe'' (Vortrag vom 17. February 1997), Heidelberg 1999. * ''Die Zuständigkeit des Generalbundesanwalts für die Verfolgung extremistischer Einzeltäter'' (Vortrag vom 8. Mai 2001), München 2002. * ''Das nachrichtendienstliche Trennungsgebot und die neue Sicherheitsarchitektur'', in: NJW 2004, S. 3289 bis 3295.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nehm, Kay 1941 births Living people People from Flensburg People from the Province of Schleswig-Holstein Public Prosecutors General of Germany Jurists from Schleswig-Holstein