The Observatory is at the forefront of international health law research and our reputation for high standards in all that we do is crucial to our success. The scholarly mission includes the production of doctrinal, theoretical, and interdisciplinary publications in traditional academic journals or scholarly presses; pragmatic scholarship designed to assist the legal profession by reporting on important developments, gathering and organizing diverse materials that bear on a given subject, and clarifying complex areas of the law; instructional scholarship such as textbooks and instructional materials.
As part of our active research activities, we build, use, and freely share platforms for free lectures and discussions. We also sponsor gatherings, ranging from informal lunches to international conferences, that bring together members of our diverse network of participants to swap insights as they stake out their respective visions for what the network can become. We also host European and non-European scholars wishing to undertake health legal research in Rotterdam.
Our diverse research interests include a wide variety of topics including:
- Solidarity and justice in health care
- Human rights and health care
- Patients’ rights
- European health law
- (European) competition law and health care
- Pharmaceutical law
- Medical liability
- Health ethics
Conference Books
- International Trade Law and Health Care 'In Search of Good Sense', A. den Exter (ed) Erasmus University Press 2010.

- Biomedicine and Human Rights, A. den Exter (ed) Maklu Antwerpen 2009.

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