Britta van Beers is professor of law, ethics and biotechnology at the department of legal theory and legal history. She is the Director of the Faculty of Law's Graduate School. In her research she explores the legal-philosophical dimensions of the regulation and governance of biomedical technologies.
She graduated in law and philosophy (cum laude) at the University of Amsterdam and studied at New York University School of Law. After graduation she worked and studied in Tokyo as part of a 1-year post-graduate programme of Japanese language and culture, organised by the University of Leiden.
In 2002 she started as a PhD candidate at the VU law faculty. She was a visiting scholar at the Parisian universities Panthéon-Sorbonne and EHESS in 2005. In December 2019 she was appointed as full professor on the VU University Research Chair. In 2022-2023 she was appointed on a Francqui chair at the Faculty of Law of the University of Antwerp to teach and do research about the legal distinction between persons and things.
