Herman NysEmeritus Professor Dr Herman Nys (born on 20 January 1951) studied Law at KU Leuven University (1969-1974) and Radboud University Nijmegen (1974-1975). From 1975-1980, he worked as assistant, specialising in healthcare law, at the Centre for Hspital Sciences in Leuven, where he received his doctoral for his thesis on Legal Aspects of Healthcare Planning in 1980. During the years 1981-1989, he was affiliated with the Law School in Leuven, first as Lecturer of Medical Law and from 1985 to 1996, he worked as an associate professor. He was the Director of the Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Law in Leuven from 1989 to 2015. In 1992, he was appointed as a professor, and he retired on 1 October 2016. Between 2000-2006, he was also the 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 also the co-founder and director of the European Association of Health Law (2008-2017) and vice-president of the World Association of Medical Law (2010-2012). He is the first deputy chairman of the European Group of Ethics in Science and New Technologies (2017-2019). Read More Read Less