Adolf Laufs

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Adolf Laufs (born November 18, 1935 in Tuttlingen ; † January 3, 2014 ) was a German legal scholar and legal historian . He is considered the doyen of medical law .

Life

Adolf run, son of a doctor's family, studied from 1955 jurisprudence at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg and at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Administrative Sciences Speyer . In Freiburg he became a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Arminia Freiburg im Breisgau in CV . In 1961 he was in Hans Thieme in Friborg with the dissertation The constitution and administration of the city of Rottweil 1650-1806 to Dr. iur. PhD . In 1963 he passed his second state examination in Stuttgart and worked as a lawyer in Tuttlingen. In 1968 he completed his habilitation in Freiburg with the work Der Schwäbische Kreis. Studies on unification and the imperial constitution in the German southwest at the beginning of modern times .

In 1969 he was appointed to the chair for German legal history , German private law and civil law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , and he was also director of the institute for historical law. From 1979 to 1982 he was rector of Heidelberg University. In 1984 he moved to the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , but returned to Heidelberg in 1988. In 1998 he was co-founder and co-director of the Institute for German, European and International Medical Law, Health Law and Bioethics at the Universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim (IMGB).

Act

Adolf Laufs was also involved in building up the University of Trier and the University of Konstanz . In 1998 he was one of the initiators of the Ladenburg Manifesto , a protest note from the German Lawyers' Association on excesses of university reforms. In 1992/1993 he was involved in setting up the law faculty of the TU Dresden .

Laufs was for many years chairman of the academy commission for the German legal dictionary . From 1978 to 2000 he was a member of the board of the commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg , which among other things publishes the historical atlas of Baden-Württemberg . He was a founding member and from 1990 to 1992 President of the German Society for Medical Law (DGMR) . For many years he was a member of the ethics committees of the universities in Heidelberg and Tübingen, and until 2003 of the ethics committee of the Stuttgart State Medical Association. Until 2002 he was a member of the Central Commission for the Protection of Ethical Principles in Medicine and its Border Areas.

Laufs has published numerous scientific papers. His work, Die Ärztliche Aufklärungspflicht , published in 1983 together with Bernd-Rüdiger Kern , and in 1992 reproductive medicine and medical law, were decisive . The standard work in science and jurisprudence is the handbook of medical law written with Wilhelm Uhlenbruck . He was co-editor in 1982, editor in 1985, and later author for the medical law journal (MedR).

honors and awards

Fonts

  • Legal developments in Germany. A legal history workbook . de Gruyter, Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-11-003656-8 . Numerous other editions.
  • The most recent imperial farewell of 1654: Farewell to the Roman Imperial Majesty and common classes, which on d. Reichstag in Regensburg is set up in the year of Christ 1654. Frankfurt / M. 1975, ISBN 3-261-01645-0 .
  • The Reich Chamber Court Code of 1555 . Ed. And introduction. With the collaboration of Christa Belouschek and Bettina Dick, Cologne 1976, ISBN 3-412-03575-0 .
  • Medical law . Munich 1977, ISBN 3-406-04689-4 . (NJW series of publications, vol. 29). Numerous other editions.
  • Handbook of medical law . Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-30524-5 . Numerous other editions.
  • Personality and law. Collected essays . Baden-Baden 2001, ISBN 3-7890-7375-X .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Prof. Dr. iur. Dr. iur. hc Adolf Laufs on his 70th birthday "
  2. ↑ On the death of Professor Dr. iur. Dr. hc Adolf Laufs. Retrieved July 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Laufs, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Tuttlingen
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 2014