Dr Hans Christian Wilms

Rechtsanwalt (Lawyer) and Local Partner

Certified Specialist in Administrative Law

Dr Hans Christian Wilms has been working as a lawyer in our Freiburg office since 2019 and has been a local partner since 2025. He advises clients primarily on public construction and planning law, environmental and economic administrative law, and energy law.

Languages

  • German
  • English
  • French
  • Spanish

Practices

Publications

  • Die Unverbindlichkeit der Verantwortung – Wissenschaftliche Ethikkodizes im deutschen, europäischen und internationalen Recht (The non-binding nature of responsibility – Scientific codes of ethics in German, European and international law), Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2014
  • The Assumption of Scientific Responsibility by Ethical Codes – An European Dilemma of Fundamental Rights. In: Responsible Innovation Volume 1: Innovative Solutions for Global Issues, Jeroen van den Hoven et al. (ed.), Springer, Dordrecht 2014
  • Ethisierung des Europarechts – Grundrechtliche Grenzen und politische Praktiken. In: Die Ethisierung des Rechts (Ethicization of European law – fundamental legal limits and political practices. In: The Ethicization of Law), Silja Vöneky et al. (ed.), Springer, Heidelberg 2013
  • Organized euthanasia and suicide assistance – International law in the second half of the 20th century, analysis and comparison. In: Handbuch Sterben und Menschenwürde (Handbook on Dying and Human Dignity), Michael Anderheiden et al. (ed.), De Gruyter, Berlin 2012 (together with Silja Vöneky, Mira Chang).
  • Ethical and Legal Requirements for Transnational Genetic Research (Book Review). In: European Journal of International Law 22 (2011), no. 2, 614 et seq.
  • Responsible research and freedom of science – a contradiction? The new Code of Ethics of the Max Planck Society on Responsible Research and its Compatibility with Freedom of Science. In: Wissenschaftsrecht (Science Law) 4 (2010), 386 – 410.
  • International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. In: Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Law, Rüdiger Wolfrum (ed.), Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010
  • Scientific Freedom and Social Responsibility: Conflicts in the Ethical Regulation of Science, FIP 12/2010

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