Frauke Rostalski

Frauke Meta Rostalski (* January 6, 1985 in Bad Nauheim as Frauke Meta Timm ) is a German law scholar and professor at the University of Cologne .

life and work

After graduating from the Sankt-Lioba-Schule in 2004, Rostalski began studying law at the University of Marburg in the 2004/05 winter semester . She completed her studies there in 2009 with the first state examination in law. From April 2009 she worked as a research assistant for Georg Freund at the Institute for Criminal Sciences at the University of Marburg. Under his supervision, Rostalski was awarded the title “Gesinnung und Strafat. Reflection on a constitutional criminal law " to the Dr. iur. PhD. In March 2011 she started her legal clerkship at the Marburg Regional Court , which she completed in March 2013 with the second state examination. She then devoted herself to her habilitation at the University of Marburg, which she completed in July 2017 and received the venia legendi for the subjects of criminal law, criminal procedural law, legal philosophy, commercial criminal law, medical criminal law and comparative law. In November 2017, Rostalski was also awarded a PhD in philosophy by the University of Jena with the thesis “The naturalness argument in biotechnological measures” supervised by Andrea Marlen Esser . phil. PhD.

In January 2018 Rostalski was appointed to the chair for criminal law, criminal procedural law, legal philosophy and comparative law by the University of Cologne . She has held this chair since August 2018. Since October 2018 she has also been Managing Director of the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law at the University of Cologne. Her research focuses in particular on the border area between criminal law, medicine and ethics, with a sub-focus on the questions of law and morality resulting from progress in the field of artificial intelligence.

Rostalski has been a member of the German Ethics Council since April 30, 2020 .

Rostalski is married and has one son.

Fonts (selection)

• Alignment and criminal offense. Reflection on a constitutional criminal law . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-428-13851-7 (dissertation (law)).
• The term of offense in criminal law. Draft of a normative-functional concept of the act that is uniform throughout the criminal justice system . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-16-156602-8 (habilitation thesis).
• The naturalness argument in biotechnological measures . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-428-15462-3 (dissertation (philosophy)).

Web links

• Literature by and about Frauke Rostalski in the catalog of the German National Library
• Rostalski at her chair at the University of Cologne
• Rostalski at the Kriminalpolitischen Kreis

Individual evidence

1. ^ German Ethics Council: Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble appoints members of the German Ethics Council , April 29, 2020 , accessed on May 19, 2020.