Professor Dr. Henning Rosenau, Criminal and Medical Law (DE)

Henning Rosenau is professor at the department of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law and Medical Law and Executive Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre Medicine - Ethics - Law at the University of Halle-Wittenberg.

Portrait Professor Dr. Henning Rosenau

Professor Henning Rosenau

Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

Rosenau studied law in Göttingen and Freiburg. Until 2004 he worked in Göttingen in the Department of Criminal Law and General Legal Theory as well as Medical and Pharmaceutical Law, where he habilitated in 2005. After working as a criminal judge and a professorship at the law faculty in Augsburg, he has been a professor at the University of Halle-Wittenberg since 2015. He is also teaching at the Turkish-German University in Istanbul.

His research focuses on medical and biologic law: he works on assisted suicide, transplantation, genetic diagnostics, reproductive medicine and informed consent. Rosenau is co-editor of the Augsburg-Münchner Draft of a Reproductive Medicine Act of 2013 and chairman of the Gene Diagnostics Commission at the Robert Koch Institute as well as spokesperson for German-speaking medical law teachers.

Further information: Universität Halle-Wittenberg/Henning Rosenau