Kristof Van Assche

Contact

Kristof Van Assche
Law Science Technology & Society (LSTS)
Building B, room 4C339
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pleinlaan 2
B-1050 Brussels
Belgium

Phone
secretary +32 2 629 24 60
direct +32 2 629 23 72
fax +32 2 629 26 62

Email
kristof.van.assche@vub.ac.be

Kristof Van Assche (Ghent, 1974) obtained three masters degrees at Ghent University (Law, Moral Sciences, and Philosophy), followed by a PhD in Philosophy at the same institution. Since August 2010 he is a PhD student in Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University of Brussels) and a member of both LSTS and FILO.

His FWO-research project focuses on the legal and ethical aspects of the commodification, including the commercialisation, of human body material. More specifically, he is analysing the arguments invoked as grounds for the possible moral wrongness of commodification practices involving organ transfer, biobank research and patenting of body material, in order to clarify the boundaries of legitimate commodification and deepen the understanding of the principles that should inform regulation.

Publications

Dor Frank, Massey Emma, Frunza Mihaela, Johnson Rachel, Lennerling Annette, Loven Charlotte, Mamode Nizam, Pascalev Assya, Sterckx Sigrid, Van Assche Kristof, Zuidema Willij, Weimar Willem (2011) New Classification of ELPAT for Living Organ Donation. Transplantation, issue 9, vol.91, n. 9, pp.935 - 938.

Sterckx Sigrid, Van Assche Kristof (2011) The New Belgian Law on Biobanks: Some Comments from an Ethical Perspective. Health Care Analysis, issue 3, vol.19, pp.247 - 258, eds. A.R. Edgar, published by Springer.

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