CHARLESTON, S.C., Oct. 7, 2005 - - A distinguished
German law professor will discuss medical experimentation and
weapons for mass destruction in a special lecture next week at
the Charleston School of Law.
Professor Erwin Deutsch, a full professor of law
at the University of Gottingen and director of the Institutes
of Foreign and Comparative Law and Medical and Pharmaceutical
Law, will speak 4 p.m. Wednesday in Room 101 of the law school's
campus at 81 Mary Street. Members of the public are welcome to
attend.
His subject is, "Medical Experimentation Concerning
Chemical and Biological Weapons for Mass Destruction."
"We are indeed fortunate to have a professor
of Erwin Deutsch's credentials here in Charleston to speak with
our students," Dean Richard Gershon said today. "His
lecture will be doubly informative to students and others in the
community who attended our day-long bioethics symposium in September."
On Sept. 17, the school hosted its first bioethics
symposium to examine whether doctors and lawyers speak the same
language, whether the judicial system needs life support and more.
The symposium was organized and hosted by students with the school's
Student Health Law and Bioethics Society.
Deutsch, who was educated and the University of
Heidelberg and Columbia University in New York, received a law
degree in 1953 and a master's degree in comparative law four years
later. He's been with the University of Gottingen since 1963.
He has been a part-time judge of the Court of Appeals in Celle,
Germany. He was a member of a German Parliamentary Committee concerning
genetic technology and was co-chairman of a committee on economic,
social and legal problems of human genome analysis that was created
by the Commission of the European Communities. He has been made
an honorary doctor of laws by the Pusan National University and
an honorary doctor of medicine by the Cologne Medical School
