Rothhaar studied philosophy, history and biology at the universities of Saarbrücken, Heidelberg and Tübingen. He worked in the European parliament in Brussels and Strasbourg in the field of bioethics. Between 2002 and 2005, he was a consultant to the SPD political group in the German Bundestag for the Enquete Commission "Law and Ethics of Modern Medicine". He habilitated at the Fernuniversität in Hagen in 2013. From 2013 to 2019 he held the endowed professorship for applied ethics with a focus on bioethics at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. In 2020 and 2021 he was a visiting professor for ethics and political philosophy at the Universidade Federal do Ceará in Fortaleza, Brazil. Since 2021, he has also been an honorary professor at the Philosophical-Theological University of Benedict XVI in Heiligenkreuz. His research focuses on theoretical ethics/metaethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of law, and medical and bioethics. Rothhaar is the author and editor of numerous publications, especially on ethical questions at the beginning and end of life.

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