Gregor Thüsing

“One might see it entirely pragmatic: law is often simply the craft of determining and applying rules. Laws apply because the legislature has decided that they should and courts then state how they are to be understood and applied. However, they are only good laws if they strike an appropriate balance between conflicting interests and are guided by the values that are important to society. What are these values? How can they be implemented? The Ethics Council helps to answer these questions. This requires discourse that goes far beyond legal reasoning. I want to contribute to this and look forward to doing so.”

Social security
Information self-determination and digitalisation
Law and religion

Since 2004 Professor and Director of the Institute for Labour Law and Social Security Law at the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn
2001–2004 Professor for Civil Law, Labour and Social Security Law and Comparative Law at the Bucerius Law School, Hamburg
2000–2001 Assistant to the Chairman of the Executive Board in the Central Corporate Development of the Bertelsmann AG
2000 Habilitation (Venia Legendi for Civil Law, Comparative Labour and Social Law and Ecclesiastical Law) at the Faculty of Law, University of Cologne
1998 Admitted to the Bar (Attorney at Law) in the State of New York
1997–1998 Participation in the LL.M. programme at Harvard Law School, Cambridge (USA)
1995 Doctorate (Dr. iur.) at the University of Cologne
1990–1994 Law Studies at the University of Cologne

Since 2024 Member of the German Ethics Council
Vice-Chairman of the Society for Insurance Research and Insurance Solutions
Member of the Board of the Society for Data Protection and Data Security
Chairman of the Society for European Social Policy
Ombudsperson of the German AIDS Foundationg

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Gregor Thüsing

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