Abstract
<p> Medical progress and the advancement of the limits of what is medically feasible, both with regard to the beginning of human life and its end, repeatedly pose challenges for current law. In this context, the law's mandate to shape the future comes into the spotlight. However, the law lags behind the rapid pace of medical progress. In addition, the legislator must be labelled as unwilling to shape the field of biomedicine. The question of how to successfully regulate this field has therefore not lost its relevance and was the topic of the international and interdisciplinary conference ‘In between Protection and Self-Determination’ in Halle a. d. Saale in October 2024, whose contributions are collected in this volume. <bold>With contributions by</bold> Prof. Dr. Erwin Bernat | Prof. Dr. Carina Dorneck; M.mel. | Prof. Dr. Joanna Dlugosz-Jozwiak, LL.M. | Prof. Dr. Bijan Fateh-Moghadam | Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hakan Hakeri | Asst.-Prof. Dr. Sertac Isika | Prof. Dr. Jens Kersten | Prof. Dr. Hirokazu Kawaguchi | Ruth Krell | Prof. Dr. Josef Fanz Lindner | Prof. Dr. Yuki Nakamichi | Prof. Dr. Frank Saliger | Prof. Dr. Alfrd Simon | Prof. Dr. Karl Stöger, MJur (Oxford) | Prof. Dr. Brigitte Tag | Prof. Dr. Klaus Tanner | Dr. Serge Vogelaar | Prof. Dr. Liane Wörner, LL.M. </p>