Prof. Dr. iur. Eva Schumann
Deputy Member of the Board of Directors
Prof. Dr. Eva Schumann heads the Department of German Legal History and Civil Law at the Institute for the Foundations of Law.She is a founding member and board member of the Göttingen Center for Medical Law and a member of numerous other institutions, including the Lower Saxon Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, the Scientific Advisory Board for Family Affairs at the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, and the Ombuds Committee for Scientific Integrity in Germany (OWID).
Her research focuses on medical law, particularly reproductive medicine and the treatment of minor patients. She was a member of the “Law of Descent” working group established by the Federal Ministry of Justice (2015–2017) and of the working group “Key Points for a Reproductive Medicine Act” at the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2017–2019).
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