HEALTH LAW & POLICY WORKSHOP

 presents  

Maurice Adams
Tilburg University (the Netherlands)
and the University of Antwerp (Belgium)

The Regulation of Euthanasia in Belgium (and the Netherlands):
Legal and Socio-Legal Aspects

Thursday, January 24, 2007
12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Solarium (Room FA2) – Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park

 MAURICE ADAMS studied law and philosophy of law at the Universities of Maastricht (the Netherlands), Leuven (Belgium) and Oxford (UK). He did a Ph.D. in law at the University of Leuven. Since 1997 he is a professor of law at the University of Antwerp in Belgium, teaching mainly in the field of jurisprudence and comparative law. As of September 2007 he is a professor of law at Tilburg University (the Netherlands), and part-time professor of comparative law at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). In his research he has a particular interest in issues of regulation, and in the relation between law and politics (and political theory) and law and ethics. He has written extensively on the regulation of euthanasia. He also functioned twice in an advisory capacity for Belgian parliament on the regulation of euthanasia, and also for the House of Lords in the United Kingdom.  

A light lunch will be served. 

Jointly sponsored by the Faculty of Law and the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto.  

For more workshop information, please go to our web site at http://www.law.utoronto.ca/healthlaw/index.htm or contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca