Prof. Dr. Dr. Frauke Rostalski becomes a new member of the German Ethics Council

04.05.2020 15:09

The criminal law expert Professor Dr. Dr. Frauke Rostalski was appointed to the German Ethics Council by Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble on April 30, 2020. She is one of 21 new members. After some of the council members resigned from the committee on April 10, 2020, the German Ethics Council will be reconstituted. “I am very pleased about this honorable appointment,” said Rostalski.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Rostalski has held the chair for criminal law, criminal procedure law, legal philosophy and comparative law at the University of Cologne since 2018. Since October 2018, she has also been managing director of the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law at the University of Cologne. In addition to the basics of criminal law, her research focuses in particular on the border areas between criminal law, medicine and ethics. She also deals intensively with legal and moral challenges that accompany progress in the field of artificial intelligence and digitalization.