Thomas Gutmann

Thomas Gutmann (born January 2, 1964 in Mühldorf am Inn ) is a German lawyer and professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster .

Life

Gutmann studied law , political science and philosophy at the University of Munich from 1985 . In 1990 he completed his studies in political science and philosophy with an MA , and two years later he completed his law studies with the completion of the first state examination in law. Since 1991 he has worked as a research assistant at the Leopold Wenger Institute at the University of Munich. His second state examination acquired Gutmann 1998. Two years later he completed his doctorate Dr. jur. from Hermann Nehlsen in Munich. He then worked as a research assistant at Nehlsen in Munich, and from 2004 he also worked for Martin Franzen . He finished both activities with the completion of his habilitation in 2006 and the acquisition of the venia legendi for civil law, medical law, legal philosophy, legal sociology, modern history of private law and contemporary legal history. The year before he had completed his habilitation in philosophy and received the venia legendi for practical philosophy there.

As a result, he turned down appointments to chairs at the Universities of Bremen and Gießen and accepted the chair for civil law, legal philosophy and medical law at the University of Münster , which he has held since 2006. Since September 2014 Gutmann has also been a member of the Philosophy and History Department at the University of Münster.

Thomas Gutmann is married and has one son.

Works (selection)

• Voluntariness as a legal term . CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-406-47439-2 . (Dissertation)
• Ulrich Schroth & Thomas Gutmann: Living Organ Donation in Europe. Legal regulation models, ethical discussion and practical dynamics . Springer, Berlin / New York 2002, ISBN 978-3-642-59405-2 .
• Ulrich Schroth, Thomas Gutmann, Peter König & Fuat Oduncu : Transplantation Act: TPG, comment . 1st edition. CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-406-51741-9 .
• For a new transplant law. An inventory of the need for amendments in the law of transplant medicine . Springer, Berlin / New York 2006, ISBN 978-3-540-28283-9 .
• Iustitia Contrahentium. On the principles of justice theory of German contract law . University of Munich, Munich 2006. (Habilitation thesis, announced by Mohr-Siebeck-Verlag as an independent publication for 2016)
• Ulrich Schroth, Klaus Schneewind , Thomas Gutmann & Bijan Fateh-Moghadam: Patient Autonomy Using the Example of Living Organ Donation . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-525-45712-2 .
• Right as culture? About the limits of the concept of culture as a normative argument . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8487-2766-7 .

Web links

• Gutmann at his chair at the University of Münster
• "The arbitrary regime must be replaced" , Interview with Gutmann on ndr.de
• Debate organ donation: The German patient , article by Gutmann on taz.de