Curriculum Vitae

Appointment to the German Ethics Council by the President of the German Bundestag, Prof. Dr. Norbert Lammert (2016) and Deputy Chairman since 2018.

President of 4th World Congress on Adult Guardianship (2016)

Visiting Professor at the University of Bergen / Norway (since 2015)

Member of the ethics committee of the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) (since 2015)

Director of the Notary Law Institute at the Faculty of Law at
the University of Göttingen (since 2015)

Founding Director and Director at the Center for Medical Law at
the University of Göttingen (since 2013)

Refusal of an offer by the University of Regensburg (2011)

Member of the Preparatory Committee and of the Directorate of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg as well as Associate Fellow of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg at the University of Göttingen (2007 – 2010)

Dean of the Faculty of Law (2005-2007)

Full University Professor for Civil Law, Civil Procedure Law, Medical Law and Comparative Law at the University of Göttingen (since 2000)

Interim Professor at the University of Munich (1999/2000)

Habilitation and venia legendi for Civil Law, Civil Procedure Law, International Private Law and Comparative Law at the University of Mannheim (1999)

Visiting Fellow and Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, UK

Dr. iur. at the University of Mannheim (1994)

University Assistant at the Chair of Civil Law and Civil Procedure Law at the University of Mannheim (1991 – 1999)

Second State Examination (1991)

First State Examination (1988)

Study of law at the Universities of Mannheim, Heidelberg and Göttingen (1982 – 1988)