| | Professor Eser studied law at the Universities of Tübingen, Berlin and Würzburg, where he gained his doctorate (Dr. iur. utr.) in 1962. He holds a Master of Comparative Jurisprudence (M.C.J.) from New York University. |
| 1968 | Qualification as University Lecturer for the Subjects Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Comparative Criminal, |
| | University of Tübingen, Germany |
| 1970 | Full Professor, then Dean and Vice-President, University of Bielefeld, Germany |
| 1974 | Professor, University of Tübingen, Germany |
| 1982 | Professor, University of Freiburg, Germany |
| Director, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law |
| 1971-1988 | Higher State Court Judge (in addition to his academic positions), first in Hamm, Westphalia, then in Stuttgart, Germany |
| 1981 | Visiting Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| 1986 | /2003 Visiting Professor, Columbia University Law School, New York, USA |
| 2002 | Visiting Professor, University of Texas, Galveston, USA |
| 1989-1992 | Vice-President, German Research Foundation, Bonn, Germany |
| 1994-1997 | Chairman, Humanities and Social Sciences Section, Max Planck Society, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany |
| 2003 | Retirement from Academic Positions |
| Ad Litem Judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| 2008 | Visiting Professor, Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan |
| 2009 | Visiting Professor, Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA |
| 2010 | Visiting Professor, University of Haifa, Israel |
| 2011 | Visiting Professor, University of Tasmania, Australia |
