Stephan Rixen

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Stephan Rixen (born September 23, 1967 in Düren-Birkesdorf ) is a German lawyer and professor at the University of Bayreuth and a member of the German Ethics Council .

Life

Rixen grew up in the Rhineland and, after attending school and doing community service in Aachen, studied law in Tübingen and at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven from 1989 to 1995 . In June 1995 he passed the first state examination in law in Tübingen, then he did his doctorate in Giessen under Wolfram Höfling with the dissertation of the protection of life at the end of life - the basic right to life and the concept of brain death . After passing the Second State Examination in November 1999 in Düsseldorf , he initially worked for a short time as a lawyer.

Finally, from August 2001, Rixen worked as an assistant at the Institute for Constitutional Law (research center for health law) at the University of Cologne . He completed his habilitation there on July 22, 2004 with a thesis on the service provider law of the statutory health insurance. He sees "social law as public business law ". He received the license to teach constitutional and administrative law, German and European social law and public business law. Rixen held two professorships at the University of Cologne before he took up a W3 professorship at the Department of Social Affairs at the University of Kassel (Institute for Social Policy and Organization of Social Services) on May 1, 2007 in the field of "Law of social services and institutions". At times he was also dean there.

Since April 1, 2010, Rixen has held a W3 professorship at the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Bayreuth, Chair of Public Law I (Public Law, Social Economy and Health Law).

Stephan Rixen deals in particular with questions of basic security for job seekers and social assistance . Since 2009 he has been a member of the main committee of the German Association for Public and Private Welfare and since 2010 a member of the specialist committee “Social Policy, Social Security, Social Welfare ”. During this period, he also represented the federal government in the proceedings before the Federal Constitutional Court on the social law subsistence level for children as an agent.

Since May 2015 Rixen has been a member of the Ombudsman for Science , a committee of the German Research Foundation. Rixen has been the spokesman for this body since May 2016.

Rixen is also an advisor to the Commission for Societal and Social Issues of the German Bishops 'Conference and, as a member of an independent working group commissioned by the German Bishops' Conference, has developed recommendations for reforming the compensation process for victims of sexual abuse.

In April 2020, Rixen was elected a member of the German Ethics Council by the Bundestag on the proposal of the CDU / CSU .

Rixen is married and has two children.

Fonts

  • Stephan Rixen: Legal Opinion: Constitutional Issues of Compulsory Measles Vaccination: Is Compulsory Vaccination According to the planned Measles Protection Act unconstitutional? Chair for public law, social economy and health law at the University of Bayreuth . Bayreuth 2019.
  • Stephan Rixen: Protection of life at the end of life: The basic right to life and the concept of brain death; at the same time a contribution to the autonomy of legal concept formation . Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-09727-0 (Publications on Public Law; Vol. 795. Zugl .: Gießen, Univ., Diss., 1998).
  • Stephan Rixen: Social law as public commercial law: Using the example of the service provider law of the statutory health insurance . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-16-148573-4 (Jus publicum; Vol. 130. Zugl .: Köln, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2004).
  • Stefan Muckel , Markus Ogorek , Stephan Rixen: Social law . In: Grundrisse des Rechts . 5th, revised edition. Beck, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-69027-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see new member in the ombudsman for science, press release of the DFG 2015 Rixen is the spokesman for Wolfgang Löwer.
  2. ^ Matthias Drobinski: Difficult consultations. Retrieved June 17, 2020 .
  3. ^ Jan Eisel: German Bundestag - members of the German Ethics Council elected. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
  4. ↑ see [1] Legal Opinion: Constitutional Issues of Compulsory Measles Vaccination 2019
personal data
SURNAME Rixen, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Düren