Janne Rothmar Herrmann

Professor of Medical law. Current research interests include reproductive rights, and the regulation of bioethical dilemmas in general.

Appointed by the Danish Minister for Health, after nomination by Indenpendent Research Fund Denmark, as a researcher to the impartial "Coil Campaign" investigation concerning contraception practices in Greenland and in Danish schools with Greenlandic pupils during 1960-1991

Appointed by the Danish Minister for Health to the Working Group on a dignified death 2023-2024

Current research:

• Principal Investigator "Reconceptualising Reproductive Rights" and "Conceptualizing a Human Right to Menstrual Health - Breaking Societal Taboos and Promoting Female Health"(funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark)
• Partner in research project TechnoDeath: Technologies of Death and Dying at the Beginning of Life" (funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark

Books in English:
The Cryopolitics of Reproduction - A New Scandinavian Ice Age, Emerald (with Kroløkke, Petsersen, Bach, Adrian, Hansen, Petersen)

Health and Human RIghts  Intersentia (with Toebes, Hartlev, Hendriks, O Cathaoir, Sinding Aasen)

Appointed member of the Dataethics Council by the Minister for Justice 2019-2023 and member of the Committee for Scientific Misconduct by the Minister of Science and elected governor for the World Association for Medical Law since 2018. Served as a board member of the Danish Society for Medical Philosophy, Ethics and Methodology during 2010-2023, and during 2010-2015 and again from 2021-2023 she was Danish member of the Nordic Committee on Bioethics by appointment by the Nordic Council of Ministers. Has previously served on the Board of the European Association of Health Law. She has served as an external examiner in medical philosophy and health law at the Danish Medical Schools. She serves as scientific expert and ethics expert for the European Commission in the assessment of research projects.

• Biolaw and bioethics (master level)

Supervision of LLB, LLM and PhD students

Education
2008: PhD, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen
2002: Candidata juris (LL.M.), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen
2000: LL.B., Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

Visiting scholarship etc
2019: Visiting researcher, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
2017: Visiting researcher, Queen Mary University of London
2009: English Legal Methods, University of Cambridge
2006: Visiting researcher, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg 

Editor
2009- 2010: Editor of Retfærd - Nordic Journal on Law and Justice

External appointments
2023-2025 Appointed as a researcher to the impartial investigation of the 'Coil campaign' set down by the Greenlandic and Danish governments
2023-2024 Appointed by the Danish Minister of Health to a working group on end of life dignity
2021-2025 Member of the Committee on Scientific Misconduct, appointed by the Minister for Science
2017-2018 Chair of the Jurisprudential Expert Group, the Bibliometric Research Indicator
2010-2015 Danish member of the Nordic Committee on Bioethics by appointment by the Nordic Council of Ministers

Assessments
Numerous memberships of assessment committees and tasks of scientific assessments for research funders.

Research funding
2023-2025: Principal Investigator "Conceptualizing a Human Right to Menstrual Health" with Céline Brassart Olsen, funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark
2019-2023: Partner Technologies of Death and Dying at the Beginning of Life (grant awarded by Independent Research Fund Denmark)
2018-2021: Principal investigator Reconceptualising Reproductive Rights (grant awarded by Independent Research Fund Denmark)
2017:    Partner in Ice Age. Entangled Lives, Times and Ethics in Fertility Preservation (grant awarded by the Danish Research Council)
2017-2020: JURFAST - Use of Health Data in Research (grant awarded by Lundbeckfonden)
2013-2017: co-PI, Global Genes, Local Concerns, University of Copenhagen Interdisciplinary Excellence Programme