Gregor Thüsing
Professor Dr. Gregor Thüsing is the director of the Institute for Labor Law and Social Security Law at the University of Bonn. He has now been appointed to the German Ethics Council. This honor brings him to We Are Uni Bonn.
Far beyond the legal sphere
Law is often merely the craft of rule-making and rule-application, says Prof. Dr. Gregor Thüsing, a member of the German Ethics Council. Laws are valid, Thüsing says, because the legislature wills them, and courts dictate how they are to be understood and applied. Good laws, however, only emerge when they consider conflicting interests and are guided by values that are important to society. What are these values? How are they implemented? The Ethics Council helps find answers to these questions, says Thüsing. "Discourse is needed—far beyond the realm of law."
Gregor Thüsing bei We Are Uni Bonn
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To help shape discourses on ethical standards
His work on the German Ethics Council focuses on topics such as social security, informational self-determination and digitalization, and, last but not least, the relationship between religion and law.