Bettina Weisser
Prof. Dr. Bettina Weisser, Dr. iur. (Konstanz), Dr. iur. habil. (Cologne), is Professor of Law at the University of Cologne where she holds a Chair for Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and International Criminal Law and is Director of the Institute for Comparative Criminal Law. Before she accepted the offer to join the law faculty in Cologne, she used to hold a Chair for German and International Criminal Law at the University of Muenster (2011-2017); she has rejected offers to join the law faculties of the University of Konstanz (2014) and of Humboldt-University, Berlin (2021).
Her teaching and research interests are in Comparative Criminal Law, European Criminal Law and German Criminal Law and Procedure. She has written extensively and from a comparative perspective on the role of criminal law in the context of euthanasia and assisted suicide, as well as on abortion laws. She has served at a government expert committee on a future reform of the German criminal law on abortion. Bettina chairs the Criminal Law section of the German Association for Comparative Law and is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Association Internationale de Droit Pénal.