The Discourse of Biorights: European Perspectives

Prof. Dr. José Antonio Seoane

Ph. D (University of A Coruña, Spain, 1996). Expert in Bioethics (University Complutense Madrid, Spain, 2000). Associate Professor (accredited as Full Professor) of Philosophy of Law. University of A Coruña, Spain. Alexander von Humboldt Fellow

VII Prize ＂Derecho y Salud＂ (Law & Health) for the best national academic work in Biomedical Law. (Asociación de Juristas de la Salud-Spain, 2011): Law and advance directives.

Further academic training. Germany (Universität zu Köln, 1995; Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 2004, 2011; Goethe Universität-Frankfurt, 2008); United Kingdom (University of Oxford, 1998, 2010); The Netherlands (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, 2013).

Main research areas: Practical and legal reasoning. Human rights. Bioethics and Health Law. Disability. End-of-life decisions and argumentation. Privacy.

Publications on legal argumentation, legal theory, human rights and bioethics in national and international publishers (Nomos Verlag, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Editorial Panamericana; Editorial Comares, Editorial Dykinson) and scientific journals (Rechtstheorie, Bioethics, Law and the Human Genome Review, Derecho y Salud, Persona y Derecho).

Bioethical advisory: President of Galician Council of Bioethics. President of UDC research ethics committee.

Prof. Dr. Oscar Vergara

Ph. D (University of A Coruña, Spain, 2003)

Law Degree (University of Navarre, 1996)

Lawyer (Pamplona, Spain, 1996-1999)

Lecturer of Jurisprudence and Legal Theory (University of Piura, Peru, 1999-2003)

Researcher in the Public Law Department, area of Jurisprudence and Legal Theory (University of A Coruña, Spain, 2004-2009)

Associate Professor (University of A Coruña, Spain, 2009-)

Main research areas: Legal Positivism; Transitional Justice; Bioethics

Publications: Books: Law as a Psycho-Social Phenomenon (Granada: Comares, 2004); Theories of the legal system (Granada, Comares, 2009). Specialized Journals: amongst others, Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie; Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia del Diritto; Revista Brasileira de Bioetica; Boletín Mexicano de Derecho Comparado; Cuadernos de Bioética; Revista de Derecho y Genoma Humano; Persona y Derecho; Anuario de Filosofía del Derecho)

He has recently finished a book on bioethics, which shortly will be sent to the publisher. The title of manuscript is Method and Practical Reason in Biomedical Ethics.