Silja Vöneky

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Silja Vöneky (2018)

Silja Vöneky (* 1969 ) is a German legal scholar and international lawyer .

Life and accomplishments

Vöneky studied law and legal philosophy from 1989 to 1991 at the University of Freiburg , the University of Bonn (1991 to 1992), the University of Edinburgh (1992 to 1993) and the University of Heidelberg (1993 to 1995). She moved to the Higher Regional Court (Berlin) for legal preparatory service .

Vöneky did her doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg with Rüdiger Wolfrum with a thesis on the protection of the environment in armed conflicts and worked there first as a speaker, then as head of an independent Max Planck research group on “Democratic Legitimation ethical decisions ”. As part of this research, Vöneky coined the term “ethicalization of law”. In 2009 she completed her habilitation at the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on law, morals and ethics and questions of democratic legitimation and received the license to teach in the subjects of public law , international law , foreign public law, European law and legal philosophy .

Vöneky (Voeneky) has been a professor and chair of public law, international law and legal ethics at the University of Freiburg since 2010. She teaches in these areas and conducts research in environmental and international maritime law , international martial law , biosecurity and biomedical law. Her interdisciplinary work encompasses the interplay of ethics and law and questions of limiting existential risks through research and technology. Since 2001 she has been advising ministries in Germany such as the Foreign Office, the Federal Ministry of Research, the Federal Environment Ministry and the Federal Environment Agency on international environmental law and the law of the Antarctic, among other things. As legal advisor to the German delegation, she was involved in the negotiations and the agreement of the liability annex to the environmental protection protocol of the Antarctic Treaty since 2001 .

In 2017 she was appointed to the international law advisory board of the Foreign Office at the suggestion of the Foreign Office's legal department and was included in the list of arbitrators of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), The Hague.

Previously, in 2012, she was appointed a member of the German Ethics Council for four years at the suggestion of the Federal Government ; She headed the working group of the Ethics Council on Biosecurity, which - on behalf of the Ministry of Science and Health - wrote a statement in 2014 on the regulation of research relevant to biosecurity. a. for the regulation of Gain-of-Function Studies of Concern (GOFsoc).

Today, as part of her voluntary work, she is a member of the Ethics Council of the Max Planck Society , a member of the Scientific Commission on Scientific Ethics of the Leopoldina (National Academy of Sciences in Germany) and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Institute for Geosciences (BGR).

Vöneky was also a founding member of the Cambridge Working Group (USA). In 2015/16 Silja Vöneky was Visiting Fellow of the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School and since then has been researching the topic of "Human Rights and Governance of Existential Risks" in connection with "Human Rights, Legitimacy, and Democracy in the 21st Century".

The work started there on questions of risk governance on the basis of international law will be held by Silja Vöneky in the winter semester 2018 for one year as a Fellow of the 2018-2019 FRIAS research group on Responsible Artificial Intelligence (Emerging ethical, legal, philosophical and social aspects of the interaction between humans and autonomous intelligent systems).

Vöneky is married and has one son.

Fonts

  • Implementation and Enforcement of International Humanitarian Law, Chapter 14, in D. Fleck (Ed.), The Handbook of International Humanitarian Law, 3rd Edition, 2013, pp. 647-700
  • Art. 216 TFEU - International agreements and contract conclusion competence, in E. Grabitz, M. Hilf, M. Nettesheim (ed.), The Law of the European Union, Commentary, 2011, p. 18 (with B. Beylage-Haarmann)
  • S Art. 217 TFEU - Association Agreement, in E. Grabitz, M. Hilf, M. Nettesheim (Ed.), The Law of the European Union, Commentary, 2011, p. 47 (with B. Beylage-Haarmann)
  • Law, Morals and Ethics - Basics and Limits of Democratic Legitimation for Ethics Committees, 2010, p. 699 (Habilitation University of Heidelberg)
  • The continued application of international environmental law in international armed conflicts, 2001, p. 593 (Diss. University of Heidelberg)
  • with B. Beylage-Haarmann, A. Höfelmeier, A.-K. Hübler (Ed.), Ethics and Law - The Ethicalization of Law / Ethik und Recht - Ethisierung des Rechts, Springer, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-37089-2
  • with H. Hestermeyer, D. König, Nele Matz-Lück , V. Röben, A. Seibert-Fohr, T. Stoll (Eds.), Coexistence, Cooperation and Solidarity, 2 volumes, 2012
  • with H. Hestermeyer, N. Matz-Lück, A. Seibert-Fohr (Eds.), Law of the Sea in Dialogue, 2011,
  • with J. von Achenbach, M. Clados, C. Hagedorn (Eds.), Legitimation of Ethical Decisions in Law - Interdisciplinary Investigations, 2009
  • with R. Wolfrum (Ed.), Human Dignity and Human Cloning, 2004,
  • with Ch. Walter, V. Röben, F. Schorkopf (Eds.), Terrorism as a Challenge for National and International Law: Security versus Liberty? 2004,
  • Biosecurity - Freedom, Responsibility, and Legitimacy of Research, Ordinance of Science 2/2015, available at: http://www.ordnungderwissenschaft.de/
  • Security Interests, Espionage, and the Right to Privacy in the Machine Age: The Framework of International Law, in R. Miller (ed.), Forthcoming
  • The law of biomedicine on the test stand of the ECHR - encroachments on fundamental rights and the doctrine of the broad scope for judgment of the national legislature, In: MedR 32 (2014), pp. 704–711
  • Foundations and Limits of an Ethicalization of Law, in F. Battaglia, N. Mukerji, J. Nida-Rümelin (Eds.), Rethinking Responsibility in Science and Technology, 2014, pp. 183–202
  • with A. Höfelmeier: Legal issues in research activities above the continental shelf of the Arctic and Antarctic, Order of Science, 2014, pp. 43–54, available at: http://www.ordnungderwissenschaft.de/
  • The influence of international legal frameworks on the development of social state structures, in R. Stürner, A. Bruns (Ed.), Globalisierung und Sozialstaatsprinzip, 2014, pp. 63–81
  • Constitutional law and international treaties, in P. Kirchhof, J. Isensee (Ed.), Handbuch des Staatsrechts, Vol. 11, 2013, § 236
  • Law, Morals and Ethics, in T. Puhl et al. (Ed.), Leitgedanken des Rechts: Paul Kirchhof on his 70th birthday, 2013, pp. 333-350
  • Fundamentals and limits of the ethization of international law, in S. Vöneky et al. (Ed.), Ethics and Law - The Ethicalization of Law / Ethik und Recht - Ethisierung des Rechts, 2013, pp. 129–148
  • Armageddon or Probation in Crisis? The German Financial Market Stabilization Fund Act with its international references, in A. Bruns et al. (Ed.), Festschrift for Rolf Stürner on his 70th birthday, 2013, pp. 1959–1974
  • Legally limited futurology? The total sequencing of the human genome from the perspective of international and national law, in R. Schenke et al. (Ed.), Verfassungsstaatlichkeit im Wandel, Festschrift for Thomas Würtenberger, 2013, pp. 591–608
  • The Fight against Terrorism and the Rules of International Law - Comment on papers and Speeches of John B. Bellinger, Chief legal Advisor to the United States department, in RA Miller (ed.), Comparative Law as Transnational Law, A Decade of the German Law Journal, 2012, pp. 353-362
  • Francis Lieber (1798–1872), in B. Fassbender, A. Peters, S. Peter (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law, 2012, pp. 1137–1141
  • with M. Chang and HC Wilms: Organized Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide - International Law in the Second Half of the 20th Century, Analysis and Comparison, in WU Eckart, M. Anderheiden (Ed.), Handbook of Death and Human Dignity, Vol. 3, 2012 , Pp. 1479-1514
  • S. Vöneky, Völkerrecht und Ethik - Ethisierung des Völkerrechts, Ancilla Iuris, Special Issue: International Law and Ethics, 2012, pp. 1–15, available at: www.anci.ch/
  • The end of innocence? International law aspects of the use of military force by Bundeswehr troops using the example of Afghanistan, in H. Hestermeyer, D. König, N. Matz-Lück, V. Röben, A. Seibert-Fohr, T. Stoll, S. Vöneky (eds.) , Coexistence, Cooperation and Solidarity, Vol. II, 2012, pp. 1309-1325
  • Ethical standards in scientific law, in W. Löwer et al. (Ed.), Wissenschaftsrecht, Supplement, 21/2012, pp. 68–96
  • Analogy in International Law, in R. Wolfrum (ed.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Vol. I, 2012, pp. 374-380, available at: www.mpepil.com
  • with R. Wolfrum: Environment, Protection in Armed Conflict, in R. Wolfrum (ed.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Vol. III, 2012, pp. 509-518, available at: www.mpepil.com
  • Armed Conflict, Effect on Treaties, in R. Wolfrum (ed.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Vol. I, 2012, pp. 606-612, available at: www.mpepil.com
  • Antarctica, in R. Wolfrum (ed.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Vol. I, 2012, pp. 418-435 (with S. Addison-Agyei), available at: www.mpepil.com
  • Ethical expertise and moral authoritarianism, in S. Vöneky, C. Hagedorn, M. Clados, J. von Achenbach (eds.), Legitimation of ethical decisions in law - interdisciplinary investigations, 2009, pp. 85–98 (An abridged version of this article was printed in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (international edition), The Limits of Argumentative Power, March 28, 2008, p. 29)
  • The state liability of companies - a continuation of the dogmatics of the Federal Constitutional Court, DÖV 10 (2003), pp. 400–407
  • with R. Wolfrum: The reform of the peace missions of the United Nations and their implementation according to German constitutional law, ZaöRV 62 (2002), pp. 596–607
  • with T. Stoll: The Swordfish Case - Law of the Sea vs. Trade, ZaöRV 62 (2002), pp. 21–37
  • with M. Rau: The international legal practice of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1999, ZaöRV 61 (2001), pp. 877–1105
  • Peacetime Environmental Law as Basis of State Responsibility for Environmental Damage caused by War, in J. Austin, C. Bruch (Eds.), The Environmental Consequences of War, 2000, pp. 269-330
  • Globalization and social human rights, limits of corporate activities, especially using the example of drug research in emerging and developing countries, in S. Vöneky (ed.), FIP 10/2013, p. 22, available at: http://www.fiponline.de /
  • Legal and legal ethical aspects of dealing with intersexuality, statement for the German Ethics Council, in S. Vöneky (ed.), FIP 6/2011, p. 50 (with HC Wilms), available at: http://www.fiponline.de /
  • German Ethics Council, Biosecurity - Freedom and Responsibility of Research, 2014, (S. Vöneky, co-writer and head of the working group “Biosecurity”), available at: http://www.ethikrat.org/publications/opinions/ biosecurity

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ How morals come into their own . In: MaxPlanckResearch 2/2007; First comes the test, then the morale . In: MaxPlanckResearch 1/2011.
  2. ↑ See also S. Vöneky, The Limits of Argumentative Power . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of March 28, 2008, No. 72, p. 62.
  3. ↑ Consequential research . In: uni'wissen - research magazine of the University of Freiburg, 01/2015, p. 32 ff .; Research between knowledge, risk and responsibility , Deutschlandradio Kultur , article from February 12, 2015.
  4. ↑ : Biosafety - Freedom and Responsibility in Science. In: www.ethikrat.org. Retrieved September 25, 2018 .
  5. ^ Gain of Function Symposium: The Policy Landscape: International Dimensions of GOF Research. March 17, 2016, accessed May 9, 2016 .
  6. ^ Human Rights @ Harvard Law. In: hrp.law.harvard.edu. Retrieved May 9, 2016 .
  7. ^ Human Rights Program Symposium: Human Rights, Democracy, and Legitimacy in the 21st Century. In: Human Rights @ Harvard Law. Retrieved May 9, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Vöneky, Silja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1969