About the Author - Martyr or Murderer: Jens Soering, the Media, and the Truth

Andrew Hammel is a bilingual German/English lawyer and investigative journalist based in Düsseldorf, Germany. He holds an English degree from the University of Texas and law degrees from the University of Houston and Harvard Law School. Hammel taught comparative law and Anglo-American law at the University of Düsseldorf for 15 years and has given guest lectures and presentations in dozens of law schools in the United States and Europe. He is the author of Ending the Death Penalty: The European Experience in Global Perspective and numerous academic articles on criminal and constitutional law.

Since becoming a freelance journalist and translator in 2016, Hammel has published in both English and German on a wide variety of topics, including immigration, education, law, and true crime. He has also translated books for Cambridge and Oxford University Presses. Hammel has researched the case of Jens Soering for five years and is a featured interview guests in three upcoming documentaries about the case including the Netflix documentary series “Till Murder Do Us Part: Soering v. Haysom”.