About the person

2021Offer from the University of Vienna for the professorship of Legal Ethics and Philosophy of Law (declined)
Since August 2016Professor of Foundations of Law and Life Sciences Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel
2015-2016Representation of a W3 professorship for Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law and Commercial Criminal Law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
January 2015Habilitation; teaching license for criminal law, criminal procedural law, medical law, philosophy of law, sociology of law and comparative law
2014Representation of a W3 professorship for Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Philosophy of Law and Sociology of Law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
2009-2016Former Academic Councillor in the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics in Pre-Modern and Modern Cultures" at the University of Münster (co-head of the project A2-7 Pluralism and the Justification of Norms in Modernity)
2008Academic co-worker in the sub-project "Structure and Function of Human Dignity as a Concept of Law" of the study on "Truth and Violence. The Discourse of Torture" (funding line Key Topics in the Humanities of the Volkswagen Foundation)
2006-2008DFG project "Paternalism as a fundamental problem of moral philosophy and law using the example of questions of medical ethics" at the Munich Center of Excellence in Ethics at LMU Munich
2007Doctorate (Dr. jur.) at the Law Faculty of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich ("summa cum laude")
2003-2006Academic co-worker at the professorship for criminal law, criminal procedure law, philosophy of law and sociology of law of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schroth and in the DFG projects "Patient autonomy using the example of living organ donation" and "Criteria for fair organ distribution"
2000-2002European Research Training Group "European Protection of Personal Rights" at the LMU Munich; doctoral scholarship from the German Research Foundation (DFG)
1999Second state examination in law (Munich)
1997-1999Legal clerkship (Munich)
1997First state examination in law (Munich)
1991-1997Studies of law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich

 

  • Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Forum Basiliense
  • Chairman of the executive board of the Graduate School of Law
  • Research Fellow of the interdisciplinary research group "Economic and legal challenges in the advent of smart products" at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld
  • Co-head of the research network "Law and Religion" at the University of Basel
  • Co-editor of the journal "Rechtswissenschaft", Zs. für rechtswissenschaftliche Forschung, Nomos Verlag (from issue 1/2020)
  • Spokesperson of the program managers of the doctoral program "Law in Transition" at the Faculty of Law
  • Lecturer in the master's degree program "Medical Law" at JurGrad of the University of Münster
  • Member of the Board of the Swiss Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (SVRSP)
  • Member of the International Association for Philosophy of Law (IVR)

His research focuses on criminal law in the field of new technologies. This includes above all the law of biomedicine (life sciences law) with its legal-philosophical, medical-ethical and sociological references. In the area of technology law, I am particularly interested in the criminal law consequences of digitalization, automation and artificial intelligence. Ongoing researches include genome editing/CRISPR, technical implants at the end of life ("cyborg medicine") and negligence liability for technical innovations. The overarching research perspective "transformative technologies" brings these projects together and reflects on them from the perspective of the foundations of law. A second research focus is the fundamental and comparative legal investigation of the role of criminal law for the integration of religious and ideological diversity in modern societies (neutrality as a legal principle). Selected teaching areas

  • philosophy of law
  • sociology of law
  • revision course in Criminal Law (Criminal Law AT and BT for advanced students in preparation for the Bachelor's final examination in Criminal Law)
  • medical criminal law
  • commercial criminal law of the doctor
  • ethics and law of biomedicine
  • introduction to life sciences and technology law
  • criminal law and religion

 

Team

Junior Research Assistants

Projects

TitleResearch leaderStatus
Monograph project: "Textbook on the Sociology of Law"Fateh-Moghadam, BijanOngoing
Dissertation project: Medical professional secrecy and digitalization: challenges for a criminal law norm (Basil Grünenfelder)Grünenfelder, Basil; Fateh-Moghadam, BijanOngoing
Dissertation project: Representation in medical measures (Art. 377 ff. ZGB) from the perspective of criminal law (Tugce Fildir)Fildir, Tugce; Fateh-Moghadam, BijanOngoing
Dissertation project: Solidarity as a principle of international law? - Elements and dimensions of a philosophical and legal concept (Carl Jauslin)Jauslin, Carl; Fateh-Moghadam, BijanOngoing
Dissertation project: Embryo donation - legal-ethical consideration and possible regulation of the donation and adoption of surplus embryos in vitro in Switzerland (Valentina Christen)Christen, Valentina; Fateh-Moghadam, BijanOngoing
Dissertation project: "Euthanasia with cyborgs" - The criminal law challenges of human self-technologization at the end of life (Claudia Stühler)Stühler, Claudia; Fateh-Moghadam, BijanCompleted 2021

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