Stefan Huster

Stefan Huster (born December 31, 1964 in Gütersloh ) is a German legal scholar . He holds the chair for public law , social and health law and legal philosophy as well as managing director of the Institute for Social and Health Law (ISGR) at the Faculty of Law at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

Life

From 1984 Huster studied at the University of Bielefeld and at the University of Frankfurt a. M. Law and Philosophy. In 1990 he passed the first state examination in law and then worked as a research assistant at Görg Haverkate's chair at the Law Faculty of Heidelberg University . In 1993 he received his doctorate there ; the dissertation was awarded the Fritz Grunebaum Prize. From 1993 to 1995 Huster completed his legal clerkship a. a. at the district court of Heidelberg . After the second state examination in law, he was a research assistant at Görg Haverkate's chair. In 2001 he completed his habilitation in Heidelberg; he was authorized to teach the subjects of constitutional and administrative law , social law , European law and legal philosophy .

In the summer semester of 2002 he represented the department for German and European constitutional and administrative law at the Distance University in Hagen , to which he was appointed as a university professor for the winter semester of 2002/03. He was awarded a research award from the FernUniversität and was a member of the board of the local Institute for European Constitutional Studies (IEV). In November 2004 he moved to the Ruhr University Bochum to the later renamed Chair for Constitutional and Administrative Law with special focus on social law, and in 2005 he also became Managing Director of the later renamed Institute for Social Law. In 2008 he became managing director of the Center for Medical Ethics eV (ZME). In 2011 he turned down an offer at the University of Augsburg.

From January to March 2007, Huster was a visiting researcher at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University (Washington, DC). He spent the 2010/11 academic year as a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . In the winter semester 2012/13 he received a personal grant from the Mercator Research Center Ruhr. In the 2013/14 winter semester he headed the research group “Normative Aspects of Public Health” at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University. In the 2014 summer semester, Huster was a fellow of the DFG research group “Establishing norms in medical ethics and biopolitics” at the University of Münster .

Huster is a member of the SPD and from 2008 to 2012 was a member of the state board of the Working Group of Social Democratic Lawyers (ASJ) in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Research focus and activities

Huster deals with constitutional, legal philosophical and social and health law issues. He was and is a member of interdisciplinary research associations (e.g. DFG research group 655 "Prioritization in Medicine"), co-editor of several journals (e.g. Medical Law and "Die Krankenversicherung") and series of publications (e.g. "Bochumer Writings on Social and Health Law "and" Interdisciplinary Studies on Law and the State "), member of scientific commissions (e.g. advisory board of the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Scientific Commission" Scientific Ethics "of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and Scientific Advisory Board of the German Society for Medical Law eV). His books “The Ethical Neutrality of the State” (2002) and “Social Health Justice” (2011) were each included in the recommended reading “Legal Books of the Year”. In 2014 Huster was awarded the “Law and Society” prize from the Christa Hoffmann Riem Foundation. In 2018 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldia .

Fonts (selection)

• Rights and goals. On the dogmatics of the general principle of equality (= writings on public law. 642). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-428-07867-5 (also: Heidelberg, Universität, Dissertation, 1993).
• as editor with Winfried Brugger : The dispute over the cross in school. On the religious and ideological neutrality of the state (= interdisciplinary studies on law and the state. Vol. 7). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1998, ISBN 3-7890-5142-X .
• with Görg Haverkate : European social law. An introduction. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1999, ISBN 3-7890-5907-2 .
• The ethical neutrality of the state. A liberal interpretation of the constitution (= Jus Publicum. 90). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-16-147826-6 (Also: Heidelberg, University, habilitation paper, 2001/2002).
• Culture in the constitutional state. In: Friedhelm Hufen (Red.): Culture and Science. Reports and discussions at the conference of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers in Frankfurt am Main from October 5 to 8, 2005 (= publications of the Association of German Constitutional Law Teachers. VVDStRL. 65). De Gruyter Recht, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89949-324-9 , pp. 51-82, doi : 10.1515 / 9783110927832.51 .
• as editor with Karsten Rudolph : From the rule of law to the prevention state (= edition suhrkamp . 2543). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-12543-4 .
• as editor with Markus Kaltenborn : Hospital law. Practical Guide to Hospital Law. CH Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-58677-4 .
• as editor with Carl Friedrich Gethmann : Law and Ethics in Preimplantation Diagnostics. Fink, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-7705-5088-3 .
• Social health equity. Save, redistribute, make provisions? Wagenbach, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8031-3639-8 .
• with Tatjana Hörnle : How far do parents have a right to bring up? Using the example of the circumcision of boys. In: JuristenZeitung . Vol. 68, No. 7, April 2013, pp. 328-339, doi : 10.1628 / 002268813X13585020285731 .

Web links

• Member entry of Stefan Huster at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• Personal page at the chair for public law, social and health law and legal philosophy