Reinhard Merkel
Reinhard Merkel ( born August 12, 1950 in the courtyard) is a German Professor of Criminal Law and Philosophy at the University of Hamburg.
Life
Merkel participated as a swimmer at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, where he was sixth layers above 400 m and 200 m layers retired in the first round. He belonged to the club Blue-White Bochum.
He then studied law at the Ruhr- University Bochum and the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg and Law, Philosophy and Literature at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich. There, he took also his State Exam.
In Munich, he was initially Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law and Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Law.
Between 1988 and 1990 he was editor of the weekly Die Zeit.
After receiving his doctorate in 1993 in Munich and habilitation in 1997 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, he, in 1998 the teaching on, first as a lecturer at the Universities of Bielefeld and Rostock and since 1999 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hamburg.
Merkel published in 2008 a monograph on free will and legal guilt.
Thorsten Galert, Christoph Bublitz, Isabella Heuser, Dimitris Repantis, Bettina Schöne -Seifert and Davinia Talbot together, he wrote in 2009 a memorandum on neuroethics assessment of neuro- enhancement.
Views
During the spring of 2011 military aircraft supported several NATO countries insurgents against the former Libyan dictator Gaddafi, Merkel expressed the view that the use violates applicable law contrary.
Merkel calls for research on embryos (see Embryo Protection Law, Bioethics ) and the rationing of medicine according to clear criteria.
He is nominated by the Federal Government since April 2012 for the period 2012 to 2016 Member of the German Ethics Council. Merkel referred in August 2012 position in the debate on the question of whether circumcision for religious reasons should be allowed to underage boys in Germany. It was a massive violation of the constitutionally protected physical integrity of the child. This issue is from June 2012 in Germany - since a judgment of the District Court of Cologne has been known on this issue - discussed. In the plenary session of the Ethics Council on August 23, 2012 called and he explained his point of view. The draft law submitted by the Federal Ministry of Justice, he sharply criticized in a TIME interview and in an article for the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Awards
In 1991, Merkel the Jean Amery Prize for essay writing. In 2010 he was inducted into the Leopoldina.
Publications
- Criminal law and satire in the work of Karl Kraus. Nomos Publishing Company, Baden- Baden 1994, ISBN 3-7890-3549-1; Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1998, ISBN 3-518-28945-4
- With Rainer Hegselmann (ed.): The debate over euthanasia. Comments and opinions. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1991, ISBN 3-518-28543-2
- Roland Wittmann ( ed.): " Perpetual Peace ". Foundations, timeliness and prospects an idea of Immanuel Kant, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1996, ISBN 3-518-28827- X
- (Ed.): The Kosovo war and international law. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-518-12152-9 Review by Rudolf Walther, Die Zeit, No. 27/2000
- Killing or salvation? , Review by Matthias Ruch, Die Zeit, No. 18/2001
- Life Protection by step plan, review of Ludwig Siep, Time, 9/2003