Prof. Dr. Gunnar Duttge
Department Director and Chairholder
Prof. Dr. Gunnar Duttge is Director of the Department of Criminal Law, Medical Law, and Bioethics and holds the Chair of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the Faculty of Law of Georg August University in Göttingen. Further information on his career and current research activities can be found below.Curriculum Vitae
Academic career
- 1966
- Born
- 1987-1992
- Law studies at the Bavarian Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg
- 1992
- First Law Examination (FLE)
- 1992-1994
- Legal clerkship and, at the same time, research assistant at the Chair of Criminology and Criminal Law at the University of Würzburg (Prof. Dr. Ellen Schlüchter)
- 1993
- Studied at the University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer
- 1994
- Second Law Examination (SLE)
- 1995
- Doctoral studies
- 1995-1999
- Research assistant at the Chair of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law at Ruhr University Bochum (Prof. Dr. Ellen Schlüchter)
- 2000
- Habilitation (awarded venia legendi for criminal law, criminal procedure law and legal philosophy), appointment as university lecturer
Professional Career
- 2000/2001
- Deputy Chair at Ruhr University Bochum
- 2001
- Representative at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, appointment as university professor (C3) for criminal law and legal philosophy at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- 2004
- Appointment to Georg August University of Göttingen (successor to Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans-Ludwig Schreiber). Since 2005, the chair has been part of the Institute of Criminal Sciences and is called the ‘Department for Criminal Medical and Biological Law’
Special Funtions
- 2005-2012
- Member of the Ethics Committee of the UMG
- Seit 2006
- Member of the Executive Board of the Centre for Medical Law at the Faculty of Law of Georg August University Göttingen; also Managing Director of the Centre in 2006-2010, 2017-2019, 2023-2025
- 2010-2018
- Member of the Clinical Ethics Committee (KEK) of the UMG
- 2012
- Associate Fellow at the Lichtenberg Kolleg in the project ‘Ethical aspects of rationing in healthcare’
- Seit 2012
- Member of the Ethics Committee of the Anatomical Society
- 2015-2016
- Scientific support/consulting for the Lower Saxony State Parliament's special committee on strengthening patient safety and patient protection
- 2021-2022
- Scientific support/consulting to the Lower Saxony State Parliament's special committee on the coronavirus pandemic
- 2022
- Scientific support/consulting for the Lower Saxony State Parliament's commission of inquiry on improving child protection and preventing abuse and sexual violence against children