Prof. Dr. iur. Dr. phil.
Frauke Rostalski
University of Cologne
Focus of the Commitment in the German Ethics Council
- Legal and ethical issues of progress in the fields of Medicine and Biotechnology
- Challenges of digital transformation for law and ethics
- Current legal and ethical issues in dealing with the pandemic
Contact for Press Enquiries on the Following Topics
- Law and ethics in Medicine and Biotechnology
- Digital Ethics in the information society
- Trustworthy use of artificial intelligence and other digital innovations
- Questions of how to deal with the pandemic
Professional Background
Born in 1985
- Since 2019 Spokeswoman of the research unit "Law and Ethics of Digital Transformation" at the University of Cologne
- Since 2018 Managing Director of the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminal Procedural Law at the University of Cologne
- 2018 Call to the W3 professorship for Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Philosophy of Law and Comparative Law at the University of Cologne
- 2017 Habilitation at the Philipps University Marburg, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG); venia legendi in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedural Law, Philosophy of Law, Economic Criminal Law, Medical Criminal Law and Comparative Law
- 2017 PhD in Philosophy, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- 2016-2017 Research Fellow at the State University of New York, Buffalo, NY; funded by research grants from the Volkswagen Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Marie Curie Programme of the European Union
- 2009-2017 Research Assistant at the Institute of Criminal Science at the Philipps University Marburg
- 2011-2013 Legal traineeship (Referendariat) at the District Court (Landgericht) of Marburg
- 2011 PhD in Law, Philipps University Marburg
- 2004-2009 Studies of Law at the Philipps University Marburg
Memberships
- April 2020 Appointment to the German Ethics Council
- Since 2020 Member of the Ethics Advisory Board of the State Government of North Rhine-Westphalia on digitisation issues
- Since 2019 Member of the Center for Data and Simulation Sciences, University of Cologne
- Since 2019 Member of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law
- Since 2019 Member of the Artificial Intelligence Competence Platform North Rhine-Westphalia "KI.NRW"; head of the certification project for the trustworthy use of artificial intelligence applications
- Since 2019 Member of the Kriminalpolitischer Kreis (KriK)
- Since 2018 Member of the interdisciplinary working group of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities "Responsibility: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning"
- Since 2017 Member of the German Association of Universities (Deutscher Hochschulverband)
- Since 2017 Member of the Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften) and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina)
Publications (Selection)
- Rostalski, F. (2024): Strafe als Resonanz. Zum legitimen Zweck von Strafrecht und Strafe. Goltdammer’s Archiv für Strafrecht, 171 (8), 441 ff.
- Rostalski, F. (2024): „Opferstrafrecht“ – Paradigmenwechsel im deutschen Strafrecht. Zeitschrift für die gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft, 136 (2), 373–396. DOI: 10.1515/zstw-2024-0013
- Rostalski, F. (2024): Der Bericht der Kommission zur reproduktiven Selbstbestimmung und Fortpflanzungsmedizin zur Neuregulierung des Schwangerschaftsabbruchs – einige kritische Anmerkungen. Zeitschrift für Lebensrecht, 33 (1), 33 ff.
- Rostalski, F. (2024): Die vulnerable Gesellschaft. Die neue Verletzlichkeit als Herausforderung der Freiheit. München: C.H. Beck.
- Rostalski, F. (2023): Digitaler Hass als Herausforderung für den strafrechtlichen Ehrschutz. Allgemeine Gedanken zum rechtlich Zumutbaren. In: Schweiger, G.; Zichy, M. (ed.): Zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen im Zeitalter des Digitalen. Ethische und interdisziplinäre Perspektiven. Berlin: J.B. Metzler, 43–52. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-66931-0_4
- Rostalski, F. (2022): Die Neuregelung der Suizidassistenz. Würdigung der aktuell vorliegenden Gesetzentwürfe und einige allgemeine Gedanken. Goltdammer’s Archiv für Strafrecht, 169 (4), 209–229.
- Rostalski, F. (2021): Freiheit und Sterben – Zu den Kriterien autonomen Sterbens und ihrer Beachtung im System der Tötungsdelikte. Juristenzeitung, 76 (10), 477–484. DOI: 10.1628/jz-2021-0168
- Rostalski, F. (2019): Der Tatbegriff im Strafrecht. Entwurf eines im gesamten Strafrechtssystem einheitlichen normativ-funktionalen Begriffs der Tat. Tübingen. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
- Rostalski, F. (2019): Das Natürlichkeitsargument bei biotechnologischen Maßnahmen. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.
- Timm, F. (2012): Gesinnung und Straftat. Besinnung auf ein rechtsstaatliches Strafrecht. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.