Wapler studied law at the University of Göttingen and the Universidad de Granada, Spain, and received her doctorate in law from the University of Göttingen in 2007. She habilitated there in 2013 with the topic "Children's rights and child welfare. An investigation into the status of the child in public law". Wapler has been working at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz since 2016.

Wapler's research focuses on the fields of legal philosophy, public law and social law. She is the editor and author of numerous books and publications in the fields of constitutional law, political philosophy and legal ethics. In research projects, Wapler has dealt with jurisprudential and legal-ethical issues in reproductive medicine, such as surrogacy, egg donation and embryo adoption. She is currently a member of the government commission on reproductive self-determination and reproductive medicine.
Further information: https://wapler.jura.uni-mainz.de/

Abstract

Constitutional law provides information on the binding framework within which the legislature may shape the law. Particularly in ethically complex and socially controversial issues, however, constitutional law is not unambiguous either, but is interpreted differently. In connection with research on human embryos in vitro, not only the constitutional status of prenatal human life has been the subject of sustained controversy, but also the legal standards for regulation in those fields in which research is deemed permissible. The lecture presents the state of constitutional opinion on the status of dealing with prenatal human life in vitro and explores the scope for legislators to shape research in this area. The aim is to create a factual basis for the interdisciplinary discussion of normative standards and the concrete legal design of this field of research.

(Translation from German)