Jochen Taupitz#
| Membership Number: | 3934 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LAW |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://taupitz.uni-mannheim.de |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1998 Managing Director of the Institute for German, European an International Medical Law, Public Health Law and Bioethics of the Universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim
- 1990 Full Professor for Civil Law, Law of Civil Procedure, Private International Law and Comparative Law at the University of Mannheim
- 1988 - 1989 University Professor at the University of Göttingen
Fields of Scholarship
- Civil Law
- Medical Law
- Public Health Law
- Constitutional Law
- Bioethics
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Vice-chairman of the German Ethics Council
- 2012 Member of the German Ethics Council (nominated by the Federal Government)
- 2012 Member of the Board of Trustees of the German Cancer Aid
- 2011 Member of (German) National AIDS Council
- 2011 Chairman of the Ethics Committee of the University of Mannheim
- 2010 Member of the (German) National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Section Cultural Sciences)
- 2009 Honorary Member of the Turkish Society for Medical Ethics and Medical Law
- 2008 Vice-President of the (German) Academy of Ethics in Medicine
- 2008 - 2012 Member of the German Ethics Council (nominated by the German Bundestag = Federal Parliament)
- 2007 Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Section Social Sciences, Law and Economics)
- 2006 Member of the Board of Directors of the German Association of Medical Ethics Committees
- 2005 - 2008 Member of the (German) National Ethics Council
- 2003 German Physician's Law Prize
- 2001 - 2005 Member of the (German) National Ethics Council
- 1999 - 2005 Member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Professors for Civil Law
- 1999 Vice-President of the German-Korean Law Society
- 1998 Member of the Council of the European Academy of Technology and Innovation Assessment
- 1995 Member of the Board of Directors of the Central Ethics Committee at the German Medical Association
