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Email: adam.dolezal@ilaw.cas.cz 

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Section of Medical Law and Bioethics, Institute of State and Law, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; Department of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague.

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My research focuses on bioethics, medical law and civil liability, with particular attention to the normative foundations of autonomy in healthcare. A core area of my work concerns informed consent in its various forms, including advance directives, proxy decision-making, previously expressed wishes, and hypothetical consent. Closely related is my long-term interest in decision-making capacity (competence) and its legal regulation within the Czech healthcare system. Another significant strand of my research addresses decision-making at the end of life. I focus on ethical and legal issues surrounding euthanasia, assisted suicide and other end-of-life practices, including the role of law in safeguarding vulnerable patients while respecting individual autonomy. I am a member of the expert team involved in the preparation of a draft Czech law regulating end-of-life decision-making. In addition, I work extensively on questions of legal liability in healthcare, particularly causation and fault in civil law disputes arising from medical practice. In recent years, my interests have also expanded into the fields of neurolaw and neuroethics, especially issues related to free will, responsibility and their implications for legal theory and medical decision-making. 

My teaching activities are closely connected to these research areas and focus on medical ethics, health law, and interdisciplinary dialogue between law, medicine and philosophy.

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Erasmus University Rotterdam

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Institut Droit et Santé, Université Paris Cité 

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University of Manchester

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Lund University, Sweden

Email: ca@law.au.dk  

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Department of Law, Aarhus University

Email: charlotte.boven@ugent.be 

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Ghent University Hospital 

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Charlotte Boven is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Geriatric Medicine of Ghent University Hospital (UZ Gent) in Belgium. She holds a master’s degree in educational sciences and sexology from KU Leuven and completed her PhD in Health Sciences (UGent) from the Department of Geriatric Medicine (UZ Gent). Her doctoral research focused on needs-based bereavement care by healthcare providers to relatives of adult cancer patients in the context of euthanasia, which was funded by Stand Up Against Cancer (“Kom op tegen Kanker”). During her PhD, she used diverse research methods including semi-structured interviews, focus groups, longitudinal surveys, and literature reviews to explore relatives’ bereavement care needs and identify good practices. After her PhD, Charlotte worked at the International Centre for Reproductive Health (ICRH) on Operation Alert, a federal training program aimed at improving care for victims of sexual and other forms of violence. Passionate about research, her interests lie in improving compassionate patient and family-centered care.

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Università degli Studi eCampus 

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Glasgow Caledonian University

Email: cah63@le.ac.uk 

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Leicester Law School; Centre for Rights and Equality in Health Law, University of Leicester.

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My main research interests involve the relationship between the practice(s) of assisted dying, the concept of legality, and themes of existentialism. In regards to the former, I am interested in analysing whether Courts or Parliament are better placed to consider assessment of legal rights relating to assisted suicide, whether certain doctrines of judicial responsibility better promote legality, and allow courts to take a more proactive role in determining whether assisted suicide legislation is a disproportionate infringement of legal rights. In regards to the latter, I am examining whether assisted dying practice(s) have potential to alter the experience of death, and if so, whether legal frameworks transform existentialist expressions into autonomy claims, and/or value of life claims. I am also researching whether the law therefore precludes the freedom to contest the lawfulness, or otherwise, of assisted dying practices, in terms in which conflict is cast. 

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Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne 

Email: clement.meier@unil.ch

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University of Lausanne

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Clément Meier, PhD, is a senior researcher in Public Health at the University of Lausanne. His research focuses on end-of-life health literacy, caregiving, and decision-making, particularly among older adults. He contributes to the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), where he works on harmonizing end-of-life questionnaires and analyzing population-based data to understand how people prepare for and experience the final phase of life. Clément’s work bridges public health, behavioral science, and palliative care, combining quantitative and qualitative methods to explore how individuals, families, and systems engage with dying, death, and bereavement. Through his research and public engagement, Clément seeks to foster more compassionate, equitable, and informed approaches to end-of-life care and planning.

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Amsterdam University Medical Center (AUMC)

Email: dra@ugr.es

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Department of Philosophy I at the University of Granada 

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David Rodríguez-Arias is a Full Professor of Bioethics in the Department of Philosophy I at the University of Granada, Vice-Director of the FiloLab Scientific Unit of Excellence, Adjunct Professor at Case Western Reserve University (USA), and Director of the Cátedra Youngner de Bioética Empírica (CYBE). His academic career has included visiting positions at leading international institutions such as The Hastings Center (Garrison, New York), the Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto, the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and Case Western Reserve University. His main areas of research are bioethics, clinical ethics, and biomedical research. He leads the research group INEDyTO, an interdisciplinary team that focuses on ethical issues related to end-of-life care, death determination, and organ transplantation. He has authored over 50 scientific publications in top-tier international journals such as The Lancet, PLOS One, PNAS, American Journal of Bioethics, Journal of Medical Ethics, and Hastings Center Report, contributing to normative debates and public policy. 

Email: e.jackson@lse.ac.uk

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LSE Law School

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Emily Jackson is a Professor of Law at LSE, where she teaches medical law. Emily has a long-standing interest in assisted dying and end of life decision-making. She was an Independent Expert Advisor to the Jersey Citizens’ Jury on Assisted Dying (2021), and a member of the Content Group for the Nuffield Council on Bioethics Citizens’ Jury on Assisted Dying (2023). She was also a Member of Department of Health Independent Panel to review Liverpool Care Pathway (2013). 

Emily was a member of the British Medical Association Medical Ethics Committee (2005-2022), a Member and then Deputy Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (2003-2012) and a Judicial Appointments Commissioner (2014-2017). She has chaired the Nuffield Council on Bioethics Working Group on Neural Organoids.

Email: e.pans@expertisecentrumeuthanasie.nl 

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Legal Advisor Expertisecentrum Euthanasie, The Netherlands 

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My academic career started with a PhD on "The normative choices of the Dutch Act on Euthanasia Physician-Assisted Suicide" (Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2006). After that I have been working as an attorney-at-law in the field of Health Law, Medical Disciplinary Law and Medical Malpractice for many years, but I have never really dropped the topic of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. Since 2022, I am the Legal Advisor of the Dutch Expertise Center on Euthanasia (Expertisecentrum Euthanasie), The Hague (main function). 

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- Senior Researcher, Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

- Member of the Health Council of the Netherlands (Advisory Group)

- Author of the Dutch Journal of Health Law (Tijdschrift voor Gezondheidsrecht)

- Author of Tekst & Commentaar (Legal Handbook) on the laws on abortion and euthanasia

- Founding Board Member of the Belgian-Dutch Society on Health Law (Belgisch-Nederlands Genootschap voor Gezondheidsrecht)

My main professional focus is on medical-legal topics, such as: End of Life Issues (in particular: Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide), Legal Competetence, Patients' Rights, Medical Malpractice, Abortion, Cooperation between Health Care Institutions, Legal Protection of the Elderly, Medical Professional Confidentiality, the Medical Code of Practice and the Role of Medical Guidelines.

Email: Evelien.Delbeke@uantwerpen.be 

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Visiting Professor at the University of Antwerp; Academic Coordinator of the Chair in Health Law and Health Ethics (AHLEC); Coordinator of the Postgraduate Programme in Health Law and Health Ethics; Lecturer of the course module “Beginning and Ending of Life”; Secretary of AHLEC; Member of the PAVO Examination Committee

Founder and director of Mediure (specialized in Health Law); Editorial board member of the Belgian Journal of Health Law (Tijdschrift voor Gezondheidsrecht); Board Member of the Belgian non-profit organization End‑of‑Life Information Forum (LEIF)

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Evelien Delbeke’s research focuses on the legal, ethical, and regulatory dimensions of health law, with a particular emphasis on end‑of‑life decision‑making, patient rights, and the governance of medical practice. Her academic work began with a doctoral dissertation on end‑of‑life decisions, which examined the legal framework surrounding medical conduct at the end of life and was awarded the André Prims Prize in 2012, underscoring its scientific and societal impact. Building on this foundation, Delbeke has continued to publish extensively on euthanasia, palliative care, continuous deep sedation, and decisions to withhold or withdraw treatment, contributing chapters to authoritative health law handbooks and monographs on euthanasia and patient autonomy.

Her research also explores broader themes in health law, including the evolution and reform of the Belgian Patient Rights Act, Hospital law and the regulatory architecture governing clinical practice, quality of care, and medical liability. Her publications reflect her commitment to enhancing legal clarity.

Delbeke’s scholarly work is complemented by her role as Academic Coordinator of the Chair in Health Law and Health Ethics (AHLEC) at the University of Antwerp, where she integrates research with teaching and policy engagement.

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Catholic University of Leuven

Email: garruego@unizar.es

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University of Zaragoza

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Gonzalo Arruego is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Zaragoza, Vicedean for International Relations, Social Projection and Communication and member of the Euthanasia Commission of the Autonomous Community of Aragón. He holds a PhD in Constitutional Law from the University of Zaragoza and an LLM in International, Comparative and European Law from the European University Institute of Florence.

He has been researcher at the European University Institute of Florence, Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University, Visiting Researcher at SIBLE (Sheffield Institute of Biotechnology, Law and Ethics) and Tutor at the Spanish Centre for Constitutional and Political Studies (Spanish Ministry of the Presidency).

He has received different Academic and Research Awards and diverse predoc and postdoc fellowships.

His area of expertise and his main research interests focus on fundamental rights and Biolaw. In this sense, his research has addressed the fundamental rights to life and personal integrity.

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NOVA School of Law

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University College London

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Catholic University of Leuven

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Director General at Hiris Innovation Technologies

Email: Ralf.Jox@chuv.ch

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University of Lausanne 

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Ralf J. Jox, MD, PhD, is full professor of medical ethics at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and head of the Institute of Humanities in Medicine at Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV). He studied medicine, philosophy in Freiburg and Munich, Germany, and at Harvard Medical School, USA, followed by a master in medical ethics and law at King’s College London. Dr. Jox is a trained physician with board certificates in neurology and palliative medicine. His research focuses amongst others on end-of-life ethics, assisted dying, palliative sedation, advance care planning, but also neuroethics and ethics of biotechnologies including AI in healthcare. Dr. Jox is long.time member of the Swiss National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics. Among the awards he received are the Young Scholar Award of the German Academy of Ethics in Medicine and the Mark S. Ehrenreich Global Prize for Healthcare Ethics Research. He was the co-author of an influential bill on assisted suicide in Germany and published several books on end of life and medical ethics.

Email: lena.wahlberg@jur.lu.se 

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Lund University, Sweden 

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Lena Wahlberg is an Associate Professor of Jurisprudence specializing in Medical Law, at the Law Faculty at Lund University, Sweden. Wahlberg's research addresses ethical, evidentiary, and conceptual issues in the legal regulation of healthcare. She has participated in research projects on the meaning of the Swedish legal requirement for healthcare to be conducted in accordance with science and proven experience, as well as on the Swedish requirement for ethical review of research involving sensitive personal data. She is currently writing a book about the relationship between Swedish medical law and ethics, which is planned for publication in autumn 2026. In the book she explores the various connections between medical law and ethics, and highlights the ethical values, principles and choices underlying the Swedish regulation of health care and medical research. In collaboration with Associate Professor Anna Nilsson, she is also editing a short anthology on Swedish regulations surrounding physician-assisted dying, planned for publication late 2026 or early 2027. 

Lena Wahlberg currently teaches medical law (organ donation and end-of-life-care), legal theory (issues of law/issues of fact, legal interpretation and argumentation theory) and evidence theory (bayesian networks and expert witnesses) for law students, and health law (professional responsibility) for psychologists. She is an expert member of the Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics (Statens medicinsk-etiska råd, Smer), a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Health Law, an external member of the Council of Research Ethics at Malmö University, and the Assistant Head of the Department of Law at Lund University. 

Email: l.postma@law.eur.nl

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Erasmus School of Law Rotterdam and District Court of Rotterdam 

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Liselotte Postma (1985) is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the Department of Law, Society and Crime at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her academic background is in law and history. She holds Master’s degrees in Criminal Law (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and in Modern History and International Relations (University of Groningen), both cum laude, as well as a minor in Law and Public Health (Erasmus University Rotterdam).

In 2021, she completed her PhD on the legal status and practice of advance directives requesting euthanasia in the Netherlands. A significant part of her research continues to focus on medical criminal law in general and end-of-life decision-making in particular. Her work includes contributions to the Fourth Evaluation of the Dutch Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide (Review Procedures) Act (2023), membership of the editorial board of the Dutch Handbook on Euthanasia (2025), and co-authorship of the chapter on the Netherlands in the Research Handbook on Voluntary Assisted Dying: Law, Regulation and Practice (2025).

She teaches, among other subjects, a Master’s-level course in Criminal Law and Mental Health, with a particular emphasis on end-of-life decision-making. In addition to her academic work, she serves as a deputy judge at the District Court of Rotterdam.

Email: Liz.Wicks@le.ac.uk 

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Leicester Law School; Centre for Rights and Equality in Health Law, University of Leicester.

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I am a Professor of Human Rights Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Rights and Equality in Health Law at the University of Leicester. Over my twenty-five year career, I have developed a strong research profile and publication record on issues of human rights in healthcare, bodily autonomy, the right to life and end-of-life law and practice. I am the author of five monographs, including Suicide and the Law (Hart 2023); The State and the Body: Legal Regulation of Bodily Autonomy (Hart 2016) and The Right to Life and Conflicting Interests (OUP 2010). Recently, I co-edited, with Nataly Papadopoulou, a Research Handbook on Human Rights Law and Health (Elgar 2025). I am particularly interested in the application of human rights law and principles to end-of-life scenarios. Beyond this specific interest, I also have research interest and expertise in European human rights law more generally; British constitutional law and history; introversion and the law; and law and literature. Alongside my research, I teach on various aspects of health law at undergraduate and postgraduate level. 

I am part of an interdisciplinary research group on Deliberate Dying, and I am a co-director of a research centre at the University of Leicester, the Centre for Rights and Equality in Health Law (CREHL), which takes a broad and contextual approach to health law and recognises the law’s role not just in setting the legal determinants of health but also in both creating and alleviating inequalities.

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University of Granada

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Directrice Institut de Droit de la Santé

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University Augsburg

Email: michael.kubiciel@jura.uni-augsburg.de 

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Chair of German, European, and International Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, Medical and Economic Criminal Law; Dean of Studies of the Faculty of Law; Executive Director of the Institute for Comprehensive Criminal Law Studies

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Professor Kubiciel’s research and teaching focus on foundational issues of criminal law and their application in medical contexts. His work places particular emphasis on medical criminal law, situated at the intersection of criminal law, medical ethics, and the health sciences. He is especially interested in how criminal law responds to technological, societal, and medical developments, and in the normative principles guiding these responses.

A central aspect of his research concerns the regulation of biomedical research, including the criminal law assessment of embryo research and reproductive medicine. He investigates when criminal law protection begins and what limits medical research must observe to align with legal and ethical standards. His work also addresses the complex criminal law issues surrounding abortion, which require careful consideration of constitutional principles, medical practice, and societal perspectives.

Further areas of focus include assisted dying and questions of criminal liability in end‑of‑life contexts, as well as corruption in the healthcare sector, where tensions arise between professional independence, economic interests, and maintaining public trust.

Email: n.j.preston@lancaster.ac.uk

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International Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University, UK

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Nancy Preston is a Professor of Supportive and Palliative Care. 

She is Co-Director of the International Observatory on End of Life Care at Lancaster University. This is a world leading research institute with international collaborations and PhD students. She is part of the Department of Health/NIHR funded Policy Research Unit for Palliative Care. Her research also explores the experiences of bereaved relatives and health care workers internationally about their experience of assisted dying. She was recently inducted as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK. She was an advisor on the Nuffield Trusts report on assisted dying and is was appointed a reviewer of the new assisted dying law in Jersey.

Email: nataly.papadopoulou@leicester.ac.uk

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Leicester Law School; Centre for Rights and Equality in Health Law, University of Leicester; Deliberate Dying Research Group, University of Leicester; Co-Director of the European End-of-Life Research Network; co-founder LeicSurvey.

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Nataly Papadopoulou is a Lecturer in Law (Assistant Professor) at Leicester Law School, University of Leicester. Her research explores the law and practice at the end-of-life, especially the regulation and practice of assisted death from a comparative, contextual, and cross-disciplinary perspective. She is currently co-leading the establishment of the European End-of-Life Research Network following a Brocher grant. At the University of Leicester, she also established and currently leads the work of the interdisciplinary group ‘Deliberate Dying’, formed of historians, archaeologists, arts and humanities scholars, lawyers, clinical psychologists, palliative care physicians, emergency physicians, and empathy professionals. She has co-edited (with Liz Wicks) a Research Handbook on Human Rights Law and Health (Elgar, 2025 forthcoming). She has published on human rights and the end-of-life in leading journals, including the Medical Law Review, Medical Law International, and the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. She is also co-founder of LeicSurvey (incorporated), a survey tool that has been created in collaboration with hospices to improve the quality and quality of feedback received by hospice teams.

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Aarhus University

Email: paola.sillitti@unil.ch

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Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences (FORS), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; Swiss Center of Expertise in the Life Course Research (LIVES), Lausanne, Switzerland; Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland

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Paola Sillitti is a researcher at the University Hospital in Lausanne (CHUV) and a PhD candidate in Social Sciences and Humanities of Health and Healthcare at the University of Lausanne. Her current research focuses on inequalities in end-of-life care, and assisted dying. She has previous experience in health policy analysis at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), contributing to international work on healthcare systems and policies. Her work at the OECD touched upon several areas, including ageing, long-term care, and end-of-life care. She is a member of the EAPC task force on the role of palliative care professionals caring for patients and families seeking and accessing assisted dying. 

Email: ricardo.chueca@unirioja.es

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Professor Emeritus of Constitutional Law, Department of Law, University of La Rioja (Spain)

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He has been a member of the Interministerial Bioethics Committee of the Ministry of Justice and Chairman of the Euthanasia Guarantee and Evaluation Commission (Government of La Rioja). An advisor and consultant on biolaw matters to the central government and the Autonomous Community of La Rioja, a draftsman of pre-legislative documents on bio-law matters, and a lawyer for the Technical Committee on Euthanasia of the Spanish Ministry of Health. He researchers biolaw, end-of-life issues, electoral laws, transparency, and teaches legal research methodology, engages in doctoral training and supervision, as well as being a research consultant.

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Durham University

Email: sandra.hotz@unine.ch

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University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland 

Email: simone.penasa@unitn.it

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Associate Professor in Comparative Public Law, University of Trento (Italy)

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Chair of the Steering Committee for Human Rights in the fields of Biomedicine and Health of the Council of Europe

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University of Luxembourg

Email: steven.lierman@kuleuven.be 

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Full professor of health law and administrative law at KU Leuven 

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Prof. Steven Lierman (1975) is a full professor of health law and administrative law at KU Leuven. He is head of health law at the Leuven Institute for Health Care Policy and senior researcher at the Leuven Centre for Public Law. He is vice-chairman of the Belgian-Dutch Platform for Public and Private Law in Dialogue and a member of the Ethics Committee for Healthcare at Leuven University Hospital and the Faculty of Medicine at KU Leuven. He is programme director of the research master's programme at the Faculty of Law and Criminology and a member of the disciplinary committee for students at KU Leuven.

His research focuses on the interaction between administrative law and private law, new technologies in healthcare and patient rights. He is the author of numerous articles on private and public law. The commercial edition of his thesis on precaution, prevention and liability was awarded the André Prims scientific prize for health law and the Fernand Collin Prize for Law 2006.

From 2003 to 2012, he was a law clerk at the Court of Cassation. He was also president of the European Association of Health Law and vice-chairman of the management committee of the Medical Accidents Fund. He was also a part-time Professor at the University of Antwerp.

Email: ssm41@cam.ac.uk

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Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge.

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Dr Stevie Martin is an Associate Professor in Law at Fitzwilliam College (University of Cambridge) and HEA Fellow. Her scholarship sits at the intersection of constitutional law, human rights, and medical law. Her research explores the role of courts and legal frameworks in regulating ethically complex issues, with a particular focus on assisted dying, abortion law, and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). She has published widely in leading journals and edited collections, including the Cambridge Law Journal, Medical Law International, and the European Yearbook on Human Rights.

Her recent work examines judicial pre‑approval in assisted dying legislation, the human rights dimensions of end‑of‑life decision‑making, and the evolving role of the ECHR in addressing domestic abuse and state accountability. She has also contributed to scholarship on Supreme Court jurisprudence and protest-related offences. 

Email: s.ost@lancaster.ac.uk

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School of Law, Lancaster University, UK. 

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Suzanne Ost is Professor of Law at Lancaster University. Her areas of research expertise include the law and bioethics on assisted dying and exploitation in the doctor-patient relationship. Suzanne’s policy and engagement work includes advising Jersey’s States Assembly on their draft assisted dying law. Suzanne is a Council Member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and was the Editor in Chief of the Medical Law Review (2011-2020). She advised the Nuffield Council on Bioethics’ Citizens’ Jury on Assisted Dying and the Jersey Citizens’ Jury on Assisted Dying. Her research has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy.

Suzanne has worked in multidisciplinary environments in university leadership roles as the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences’ (FHASS) Research Enhancement Director and Associate Dean of Research at Lancaster University (2018-24). As Academic Lead for the British Academy’s ECR Network Northwest North Wales Cluster, she supports the development of early career researchers across the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

Email: tomas.dolezal@ilaw.cas.cz

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Department of Tort Law, Medical Law and Ethics, Institute of State and Law, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic; Department of Medical Law and Public Health, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague.

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Ass. Prof. JUDr. Tomáš Doležal, Ph.D., LL.M., is a leading legal scholar in medical and civil law. He is Head of the Department of Civil Law and Head of the Research Unit for Medical Law and Bioethics at the Institute of State and Law, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and lecturer at the Institute of Medical Law and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine. He is a Bureau member of the Council of Europe Steering Committee for Human Rights in the fields of Biomedicine and Health (CDBIO) and Head of the Czech Unit of UNESCO International Network in Bioethics. He is Vice-Chair of the Czech and Slovak Society for Tort Law and Related Fields. He collaborates with the Association of General Practitioners, especially during public consultations on medical legislation. He is member of the Czech National Ethics Committee.

He is the author (co-author) of many publications, including the monographs Informed consent in healthcare. Legal and ethical aspects, The Doctor-Patient Relationship in Private Law, Protection of patients' rights, and Causation in Civil Law.