Herman NysEmeritus Professor Dr Herman Nys (born on 20 January 1951) studied Law at the K.U. Leuven (1969-1974) and the K.U. Nijmegen (1974-1975). From 1975 to 1980, he worked as an assistant, specialising in healthcare law, at the Centre for Hospital Siences in Leuven, where in 1980 he received his doctoral degree for his thesis on Legal Aspects of Health Care Planning. In the years 1981 through 1989, he was affiliated with the law school in Leuven, first as Lecturer in Medical Law and since 1985 as an associate professor. He has been the director of the Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Law in Leuven from 1989 until 2015. In 1992, he was appointed professor and he retired on 1 October 2016. Between 2000 and 2006, he has also been Professor of International Health Law at the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands. Prof. Nys is the author of numerous books and articles on medical law and healthcare policy. He is a member of the editorial boards of several learned journals and editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Health Law. He was co-founder and director of the EuropeanAssociation of Health Law (2008-2017) and vice-president of the World Association of Medical Law (2010-2012). He is first vice chair of the European Group of Ethics in Science and New Technologies (2017-2019) Read More Read Less