Volker Lipp

Volker Lipp (born August 9, 1962 in Göppingen ) is a German lawyer , university professor and currently (2020) Deputy Chairman of the German Ethics Council .

Life

Lipp studied law in Mannheim , Heidelberg and Göttingen from 1982 to 1988 and graduated with the first state examination in law. The second state examination in law followed in 1991 , before he worked as a research assistant to Hans-Martin Pawlowski at the University of Mannheim from 1991 to 1999 .

In 1994 he received his doctorate with the text “The judge's private knowledge. On the impartiality of the judge in the process ” at the University of Mannheim . In 1999 Lipp received his habilitation on the basis of the publication "Freedom and Welfare: The Human Being as Legal Entity - On the Function and Position of Legal Supervision in Private Law" and at the same time was awarded the license to teach the subjects of civil law , civil procedural law , international private law and comparative law.

After a professorship in Munich , he accepted a professorship at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen for a chair in civil law, civil procedural law, medical law and comparative law. He turned down a call to the University of Regensburg (2011).

From 2005 to 2007 Lipp was Dean of the Faculty of Law and has been a member of the Göttingen Center for Medical Law since 2006. Since 2010 he has been a member of the Central Ethics Commission at the German Medical Association .

In 2016 he was appointed to the German Ethics Council by the President of the German Bundestag , Norbert Lammert , of which he has been Deputy Chairman since 2018.

The Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest awarded Lipp an honorary doctorate in 2016 .

Memberships and functions

• Member (since 2016) and from 2018 Deputy Chairman of the German Ethics Council
• Betreuungsgerichtstag eV , chairman from 2002 to 2010, deputy chairman since 2010
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Association of German Registrars
• Member and from 2008 President of the German Section of the International Commission on Civil Status (CIEC) (2007–2015)
• Member of the committee for ethical and medical-legal fundamental issues of the board of the German Medical Association (since 2007)
• Member of the Central Ethics Committee at the German Medical Association (since 2010)
• Liaison professor of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (2010–2016)
• Member of the maintenance commission of the German Family Court Conference (since 2014)
• Member of the ethics committee of the University Medical Center Göttingen (since 2015)
• President of the 4th World Congress on Care Law, Erkner / Berlin 2016

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• The judge's private knowledge. On the impartiality of the judge in the process, Mannheimer jurisprudential treatises Volume 18, Heidelberg 1995 (also dissertation)
• Freedom and care: The human being as a legal person - On the function and position of legal support in private law, Ius Privatum Volume 42, JCB Mohr / Paul Siebeck, Tübingen 2000 (plus habilitation thesis)
• Medical Law, 7th edition, 2015 (joint continuation of the work founded by Adolf Laufs with Christian Katzenmeier )

Editorships

• Medical Law (MedR) , journal (co-editor)
• Supervision law practice (BtPrax) , journal (member of the editorial board)
• Forced treatment for self-harm, 14th Göttingen workshop on family law 2015 (together with Dagmar Coester-Waltjen , Eva Schumann and Barbara Veit )
• Reform of Civil Procedure in Germany and Norway, 2011 (together with Halvard Haukeland Fredriksen )
• Heterologous insemination. Current situation and need for reform from an interdisciplinary perspective, 2010 (together with Gunnar Duttge , Wolfgang Engel and Barbara Zoll)

Web links

• Official website of the chair for civil law, civil procedural law, medical law and comparative law (Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Volker Lipp)
• Literature by and about Volker Lipp in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lipp, Volker. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. De Gruyter. Retrieved July 14, 2019.
2. ↑ Volker Lipp. Retrieved June 15, 2019 . 
3. ^ Georg-August University of Göttingen: curriculum vitae. Retrieved June 15, 2019 .