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ABOUT

 

Erik Hahn is Professor of Health Law and Social Law at Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, Co-opted Professor at TU Dresden, and Research Affiliate at the Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences at the University of Cambridge. He also serves as Visiting Professor of European Health Law and Social Law at Rīga Stradiņš University.

 

His research focuses on health and social law in Germany and Europe, with particular emphasis on digital and cross-border healthcare, telemedicine, health data regulation, and the coordination of social security systems. His work also covers the broader legal frameworks of healthcare provision, social insurance, social assistance, and social services.

 

Further areas of research include mental health law, guardianship and adult protection law, child and youth welfare law, and the legal and ethical regulation of healthcare and medical research. Across these fields, his work combines domestic, European, international, and comparative legal perspectives.​​

CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITIONS

 

Professor of Law (Health Law and Social Law) at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Council Member of the Görlitz Institute for Health, Ageing, Work and Technology, at Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

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Co-opted Professor at both the Faculty of Medicine "Carl Gustav Carus" and the Institute for International, Intellectual Property and Technology Law within the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science at TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany.

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Research Affiliate at the Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

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Visiting Professor (European Health Law and Social Law) at the Faculty of Social Sciences (Department of Law) at Rīga Stradiņš University, Latvia.​

SELECTED RECENT WORK

 

From Technical Regulation to Healthcare Services Governance: The Expanding Role of Standards in EU Law, European Journal of Health Law, 2026, accepted (with K. Liddell/M. Aboy).

 

Cross-border telemedicine - A reason to 'smile'? also comment on ECJ, judgment of 11 September 2025 -C-115/24 (UJ/Austrian Dental Association), University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper, Paper No. 22/2025 (with K. Liddell/M. Aboy/G. Cohen),  http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5798224.

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Diagnostic services as ‘treatment’ under Article 18 of the Social Security Co-ordination Protocol (EU-UK)? – Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland ([2024] NICA 53), European Journal of Social Security (EJSS) 2026, 68-72, https://doi.org/10.1177/13882627261426301.

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Clinical Trials May Need a Backup Plan for U.S.–EU Data Sharing, Bill of Health, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School, 15 October 2026 (with G. Lenarczyk/R. Grinblat), Link.
 
Regulierung der Telemedizin im Vereinigten Königreich, Gesundheitsrecht (GesR) 2026, 619-627, https://doi.org/10.9785/gesr-2026-251004.
 
Kooperationsplan und Eingliederungsvereinbarung zwischen Macht und Vertrag: „Die ich rief, die Verträge, werd ich nun lieber wieder los.“, Die Sozialgerichtsbarkeit (SGb), 133-140, https://doi.org/10.37307/j.1864-8029.2026.03.03.
 
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
 
Erik Hahn studied law at the Universities of Leipzig and Halle-Wittenberg (2003–2008) and received his first doctorate from Leipzig University in 2010. After completing his legal clerkship, he served as a public prosecutor in Leipzig and a judge at the Dresden Social Court. In 2015, he was appointed Professor of Law at the North German University for the Judiciary in Hildesheim, before moving to Zittau/Görlitz in 2016. His second doctorate, awarded by TU Dresden in 2021, examined the historical foundations of medical law. In 2022, he completed his habilitation at the Faculty of Economics, Law and Society of BTU Cottbus–Senftenberg, obtaining the venia legendi in public law, with particular emphasis on medical and social law, and European law. He subsequently also served as a part-time judge at the Saxon Higher Social Court and, until 2024, as scientific director of the LL.M. programme in Medical Law at Dresden International University.
 
He has authored more than 180 publications, including books, journal articles, book chapters, and edited volumes, and regularly speaks at national and international conferences. His academic visiting appointments have included Harvard Law School (USA), Roma Tre University (Italy), Rīga Stradiņš University and Banku Augstskola (Latvia), International Hellenic University (Greece), the National Judges College (China), and the University of Cambridge (UK). His current affiliations with TU Dresden and Cambridge date from 2025; he joined Rīga Stradiņš University in 2022.
 
He is a member of the European Institute of Social Security, the European Association of Health Law, the German Society for Medical Law, the German Society for Health Insurance Law, the German Social Law Association, the Leipzig Association for Medical Law, and the AWMF working group ‘Ärzte und Juristen’. He also serves on the Ethics Commission of the Saxony State Medical Association and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Independent Patient Advice Foundation Germany (UPD).

 

State Examinations I and II in Law (Saxony, both with distinctions); Dr. iur. (Leipzig University, s.c.l.); Dr. rer. medic. (TU Dresden, m.c.l.); and Dr. iur. habil. (BTU Cottbus–Senftenberg).

 

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