Department of Tort and Medical Law and Ethics

The department focuses its activities on civil law, especially tort law, and on medical law and bioethics as interconnected areas that shape the legal and ethical frameworks for the protection of health, bodily integrity and human dignity. In the field of civil tort law, it examines the principles of liability for harm, the standard of care, causality, the scope of compensation and broader issues of prevention, risk distribution and fair organization of relations in society. It also deals in detail with the issues of personality rights and compensation for non-pecuniary damage. Medical law and bioethics are developed as a space in which these general liability principles collide with the specific challenges of healthcare, biomedicine and technological development. The field systematically connects private and public law perspectives and integrates knowledge from medicine, philosophy and social sciences with the aim of contributing to solutions that are legally consistent, fair and socially sustainable.