- “The Protection of Legal Interests as a Task of Criminal Law in the 21st Century,” lecture delivered during the symposium “Living Criminal Law Scholarship—The Criminal Law Thought of Claus Roxin,” Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, September 18, 2026
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- “Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on the Planetary,” moderator of Panel I during the Spring School “CriminalLaw and the Anthropocene: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives and Critical Approaches,” Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, May 25, 2026
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- “The Anthropocene as a Transformative Paradigm in Criminal Law,” lecture during the Spring School “CriminalLaw and the Anthropocene: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives and Critical Approaches,” Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, May 25, 2026
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- “Dying and Death,” moderator of Session 2 during the conference “Medical Law in Pluralistic Societies” organized by the Academic Association of German-Speaking Professors of Medical Law, University of Lucerne, Lucerne, May 14–16, 2026
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- “The Concept and Scope of Climate Criminal Law,” presentation during the Science-Policy Dialogue “BlindSpots in Climate Protection: Organized Climate Crime and the Illegal Trade in F-Gases,” Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, April 30, 2026
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- “Religion within the Law,” moderator of Panel II during the conference “The Constellation of Law and Religion: Interdependencies Revisited,” Research Network on Law and Religion at the University of Basel, Basel, February 12, 2026
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- “TheAnthropocene as a Transformative Paradigm in Law?”, presentation during the conference “Geoanthropology and Jurisprudence in Dialogue,” Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology, Jena, October 13, 2025
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- “The Climate of Law—The Anthropocene as a Challenge for the Law,” lecture presented at the conference “Geoanthropology and Jurisprudence in Dialogue,” Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology, Jena, October 13, 2025
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- “TheClimate of Law: Can the Law Adapt to the Challenges of the Anthropocene?”, lecture as part of the lecture series “Lawin the Context of Climate Change,” University of Basel, Basel, April 1, 2025
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- “CurrentDevelopments in Living Organ Donation—From a Legal Perspective,” lecture delivered during the event “Medicine & Law in Dialogue” organized by the Association of Academic Medical Societies (Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Wissenschaftlichen Medizinischen Fachgesellschaften e.V.), Würzburg, March 14, 2025
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- “FromEmbryo Protection to the Protection of Future Persons,” lecture during the conference “Revisionof the Reproductive Medicine Act: Key Points of a New Regulation,” University of Basel, Basel, February 20, 2025
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- “TheAnthropocene as a Transformative Scientific Paradigm,” presentation in Panel 1: Criminal Law & the Anthropocene during the conference “Lawand/in the Anthropocene,” 2nd conference of the Swiss Network for Law and Society, Bern, February 10, 2025
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- “Medical Technologyand Freedom at the End of Life,” presentation during the“ Technology &Freedom” workshopof the Forum Basiliense, University of Basel, Basel, October 25, 2024
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- “CurrentStatus of Euthanasia Law from Switzerland’s Perspective,” panel discussion during the conference “BetweenProtection and Self-Determination—International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Life as Reflected in Medical Law,” Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, October 3, 2024
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- “The Protection of Future Persons: How CRISPR Is Transforming the Time Horizon of Legal Responsibility,” lecture during the workshop “The Technology and Ethics of CRISPR,” URPP H2R (University of Zurich) and Center for Life Sciences Law (ZLSR) at the University of Basel, Monte Verità, Ascona, March 4, 2024
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- “The Climate of Criminal Law—Why Securing the Future Through Criminal Law Is So Difficult,” online lecture during the lecture series “Climate Crisis and Criminal Law,” Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in cooperation with the ConTrust cluster initiative, January 15, 2024
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- “Artificial Intelligence as a Transformative Technology in Criminal Law,” lecture during the AI&Law Workshop, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Center for Critical Computational Studies, September 21–23, 2023
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- “‘Where “Must” Reigns, There Can Be No “Should”—The Impossibility of Norms in the DigitalPreventive Society,” lecture during the conference “Digitalization as a Total Social Fact in Criminal Sciences,” Leibniz University Hannover, Leibnizhaus Hannover, July 6, 2023
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- “Hate Crimes and Religion:A Contribution to the Criminal Law Significance of Freedom of Religion,” lecture delivered at the conference of canon law professors, University of Halle, Faculty of Theology, Halle (Saale), April 21, 2023
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- “‘Fragmented Societies’ and Criminal Law: A Conservative Crisis Narrative,” lecture during the academic workshop on citizenship and fragmentation in criminal law, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security, and Law (MPI-CSL), Freiburg, February 6, 2023
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- “Criminal Law Theoretical and Legal-Ethical Reasons Against Permitting Ex Post Triage,” presentation during the conference “Triage Following the Legislator’s Decision (§ 5c IfSG),” University of Augsburg, Faculty of Law, Augsburg, January 20, 2023
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- “Where there is must, there must be no ought” – Towards Smart Technical Totalitarianism?, presentation as part of the ZiF Research Group Conference “Legal Rules in the Age of Smart Products,” Bielefeld University, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld, June 29, 2022
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- Basic Concepts in the Triage Debate: Why a Better Chance of Success Does Not Indicate Greater Urgency, presentation during the interdisciplinary research workshop “Triage: Normative Controversies between Medicine, Ethics, and Law” (online), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Center for Ethics and Philosophy in Practice, Munich, April 29, 2022
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- Contingency and Indisponibility: On the Function of Constitutional Law in Reproductive Medicine, lecture during the workshop (webinar) “Reproductive Medicine for All?”, University of Basel, Center for Life Sciences Law, Basel, January 28, 2022
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- The Equitable Distribution of Chances of Survival as a Challenge for Criminal Law, public lecture as part of the lecture series “Criminal Law in Crisis,” Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Criminology, Hannover, November 4, 2021
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- Digital Risk Literacy: Ethical and Legal Challenges of the Digital Transformation, public lecture as part of the lecture series “The Challenge of Digitalization,” University of Basel, Digital Literacies Project, Basel, September 28, 2020 ► https://vimeo.com/462997691
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- Self-Determination in Digitalized Biomedicine, public lecture as part of the lecture series “Biomedical Law in the Digital Transformation,” University of Zurich, Faculty of Law, Doctoral Program in Biomedical Ethics and Law / Law Track, Zurich, December 10, 2019
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- Genome Editing as a Transformative Technology? – On the Relationship Between Technical and Legal Change, guest lecture during the interdisciplinary conference “Ethics, Law, and Communication in Genome Editing”; BMBF-funded GenomELECTION research consortium, House of the Leibniz Association, Berlin, September 11, 2019
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- Tolerance or Neutrality? On the Historical Foundations of Criminal Law’s Approach to Religious Diversity, presentation at the conference “Diversity in Law”; University of Hamburg, Warburg-Haus, Hamburg, August 26 and 27, 2019
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- Mobile Health Apps: Increased Autonomy or Smart Paternalism? Presentation at the Law & Robots workshop, University of Basel, Faculty of Law, June 6, 2019
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- Responsibility for Innovation in Criminal Law: Between Strict Liability, Negligence, and Permissible Risk, presentation during the 38th Criminal Law Teachers’ Conference 2019 “How Much Negligence Can Society Tolerate?”; Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Criminology, May 30–June 2, 2019
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- Hypothetical Consent—An Institution of Swiss Medical Criminal Law?, presentation at the 98th Annual Conference of the Swiss Society of Criminal Law; Lucerne, May 16 and 17, 2019
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- Digitization of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure—On the Relationship Between Technological and Legal Change, presentation during a conference hosted by the law firm MÜNCH SINGH; IBM Client Center Zurich, May 10, 2019
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- Integration of Religious Pluralism: Developments in German Criminal Law, presentation in the session “Case Studies: Secularity of Law—Old and New Challenges” during the conference “Norden meets Europe. Protestant Legacies in Nordic Law: Uses of the Past in the Construction of Secularity of Law (ProNoLa)”; Historic Building of the Göttingen University Library, March 21 and 22, 2019
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- “The Algorithm Knows Best? Legal Limits of ‘Smart’ Paternalism (Also a Contribution to Translation Conflicts Between Technology and Law),” public lecture as part of the Munich Theory Talks on Perspectives on Societal Self-Descriptions; Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Institute of Sociology, January 14, 2019
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- Genome Editing as a Transformative Technology? – On the Relationship Between Technological and Legal Change, presentation during the international conference “Genome Editing / CRISPR as a Challenge for Life Sciences Law”; University of Basel, Faculty of Law, October 11 and 12, 2018
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- Criminalizing the Face Veil? – Current Dynamics in the Relationship Between Law and Religion, lecture delivered at the conference “Current Migration and Religion: A Transnational Discourse”; University of Basel, Faculty of Theology, June 28, 2018
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- Does the Algorithm Know Best? Technological Paternalism in Medicine, lecture as part of the “Bioethics” lecture series; Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen, June 5, 2018
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- Explorations in the Post-Factual Age: Truth and Lies; Café Scientifique Basel, December 10, 2017
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- The Concept of Honor in the Context of Blasphemy and Hate Speech, conference as part of the research project “Honor in Family, Law, and Religion” in conjunction with the university core research area “Changes in the Family in the Context of Migration and Globalization”; University of Lucerne, November 29, 2017
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- Self-determination in the Biotechnological Age, inaugural lecture; Natural History Museum Basel, November 15, 2017
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- Religious Circumcision of Boys in a Liberal Constitutional State; Foundation Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (GRA), Zurich, May 15, 2017
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- Genome Editing as a Fundamental Issue in Criminal Law, “Elements of Medical Criminal Law,” symposium in honor of Ulrich Schroth on the occasion of his 70th birthday; Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich – Center of Excellence for Ethics, October 7, 2016
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