Nils Hoppe

Nils Hoppe (born June 27, 1977 in Göttingen ) is a German-English legal scholar. He teaches and researches in the areas of medical law , biotechnology law and medical ethics and works in Hanover.

life and work

Hoppe attended an English private school in London and, after taking the GCSE (1994) and GCE (1996) exams, studied law in Nottingham and Erlangen from 1996 to 2000 . After completing his studies, he worked as a legal assistant at a large English law firm before becoming a member of the Göttingen University Medical Center, initially as a legal advisor and later as a research assistant . From 2003 on, Hoppe took up a position as a teacher for special tasks in English legal language at the University of Hanover . In 2007 he successfully advertised an EU joint project together with Christian Lenk (Tiss.EU - "Evaluation of Legislation and Related Guidelines on the Procurement, Storage and Transfer of Human Tissues and Cells in the European Union - an Evidence-Based Impact Analysis.") a. Positions as a research assistant at Nikolaus Forgó and Paul Hoyningen-Huene followed . In 2008 Hoppe received his doctorate from Stephan Meder with a thesis on biotechnology law. iur. From 2011 to 2013 junior professor for regulation in the life sciences at Leibniz University Hannover . Since 2011 he has headed the Center for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences (CELLS), a research institute at Leibniz University Hannover. He is working group leader of Unit 10.7 (Ethical and Legal Aspects) in the REBIRTH Cluster of Excellence ("From Regenerative Biology to Reconstructive Therapy"). Full university professor in Hanover since 2013. Since 2017 Dean of Research of the Philosophical Faculty.

Hoppe's research and publication focus is on regulatory issues in bio and tissue banks, tissue engineering, and ownership issues in biomaterials. Since 2011 Hoppe has been a founding member of an initiative to reform research into ethical, legal and social issues in genome research, together with Jane Kaye ( University of Oxford ), Eric M. Meslin ( Indiana University ), Bartha Knoppers ( McGill University ), Eric T. Juengst ( University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ) and others. He is a scientific member of the Permanent Senate Commission for Animal Experimental Research of the German Research Foundation .

Hoppe is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and serves on numerous boards and editorial boards. In 2010 he was a visiting fellow at Oxford University . He is visiting professor at the Universities of Trento , Milan and Vienna . Since May 2014 he has been a member of the UK Biobank Ethics and Governance Council ( Wellcome Trust and Medical Research Council ). He works as a lawyer in London and is a member of Coram Chambers, a law firm for barristers , and is a member of the Honorable Society of Gray's Inn .

In 2012, Hoppe turned down a professorship in medical law and tort law at the University of Exeter . In 2016, he declined a call to the Chair of Life Sciences Law and Ethics at the University of Portsmouth .

Fonts

Books

• with José Miola: Medical Law and Medical Ethics. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
• with Katharina Beier, Silvia Schnorrer and Christian Lenk (eds.): The Ethical and Legal Regulation of Human Tissue and Biobank Research in Europe. University Press, Göttingen 2011.
• with Christian Lenk, Katharina Beier and Claudia Wiesemann (Eds.): Human Tissue Research - A European Perspective on the Ethical and Legal Challenges. Oxford University Press, 2011.
• Bioequity - Property and the Human Body. Ashgate, 2009.
• with Christian Lenk and Roberto Andorno (eds.): Ethics and Law of Intellectual Property. Ashgate, 2007.

Selected journal articles

• with Jürgen Robienski: Current medical law and ethical challenges in pathology. In: The Pathologist. 2013 34 (1).
• with Markus Scholz: Biomedical research and the importance of ethical guidelines. In: German journal for clinical research. May 2011.
• with Alexander Denoon: An ethical framework for expanded access to cell-based therapies. In: Regenerative Medicine. 2011 6 (3), pp. 273-275.
• Cui Bono? Ownership of one's own body in the international legal discussion. In: Berliner Debatte Initial. 2010 21 (4): 19-27.
• On the Europeanization of Health Law. In: European Journal of Health Law. 2010 17 (4), pp. 323-328.

Contributions to edited volumes

• A Sense of Entitlement: Individual vs. Public Interest in Human Tissue. In: Christian Lenk, Judit Sandor, Bert Gordijn (Eds.): Biobanks and Tissue Research: the Public, the patient and the Regulation. Springer, Heidelberg 2011, pp. 53-64.
• Medical Ethics and Patient Safety. In: John Tingle, Pippa Bark (Eds.): Patient Safety - Law, Policy and Practice. Routledge, London 2011, pp. 54-63.
• Risky Business - Re-evaluating Participant Risk in Biobanking. In: Christian Lenk, Nils Hoppe, Katharina Beier, Claudia Wiesemann (Eds.): Human Tissue Research - A European Perspective on the Ethical and Legal Challenges. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011, pp. 35-44.
• Reflections on Entitlements in the Human Body from an Equity Perspective. In: Michael Steinmann, Peter Sýkora, Urban Wiesing (Eds.): Altruism Reconsidered - Exploring New Approaches to Property in Human Tissue. Ashgate Publishing, Farnham 2009, pp. 113-130.
• with Christian Lenk: Using Tissue and Material from the Human Body for Biomedical Research: Proposals for a Normative Model. In: Michael Steinmann, Peter Sýkora, Urban Wiesing (Eds.): Altruism Reconsidered - Exploring New Approaches to Property in Human Tissue. Ashgate Publishing, Farnham 2009, pp. 133-141.
• Normative models for regulating the commodification of human tissue in research and therapy: questions of agreement in a European-American comparison. In: Christian Steineck, Ole Döring (ed.): Culture and bioethics: Owning one's own body. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2008, pp. 51–63.
• with Christian Lenk: A model for the constitution of rights of use to human tissue. In: Jochen Taupitz (Ed.): Commercialization of the human body. Springer, Heidelberg 2007, pp. 199-211.
• Out of touch: from corporeal to incorporeal, or Moore revisited. In: Christian Lenk, Nils Hoppe, Roberto Andorno (Eds.): Ethics and Law of Intellectual Property: Current Problems in Politics, Science and Technology. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot 2007, pp. 199-210.

Web links

• Profile page on www.cells-hannover.de
• Profile page on www.publichealth.ox.ac.uk