Biography
Dr. Enrique Santamaría is assistant professor at the Department of Law & Markets of the Erasmus University Rotterdam and a project coordinator within the framework of the Dutch Sector Plan for Law. He received his doctoral degree at the University of Groningen in 2020 with a thesis on the limits to the validity of contracts on human tissue under EU law. His research focuses on the relations between the human body and the law. His more recent academic interests explore the governance of digital and other converging technologies in healthcare. In particular, Dr. Santamaría studies different theories on health data commons, and the legal, political and ethical debates around AI applications in health. He has published in several European Journals. Dr. Santamaría is a member of the SSH breed Sector Plan on Digitalisation.
Erasmus School of Law
Assistant professor | Innovation of Public Law
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Work
- Enrique Santamaria Echeverria (2025) - The European Health Data Space: A New Paradigm for Secondary Uses of Health Data for Scientific Research? - doi: 10.4324/9781003544111-10
- Enrique Santamaria Echeverria (2025) - The Human Body Commons: A Private Law Contribution for the Advancement of the Right to Health - doi: 10.1017/9781009480468.012
- Petros Terzis & O. E. Santamaria Echeverria (2023) - Interoperability and governance in the European Health Data Space regulation - Medical Law International, 23 (4), 368-376 - doi: 10.1177/09685332231165692 - [link]
- Enrique Santamaria Echeverria (2023) - Artificial Intelligence and the Right to Health - [link]
- Enrique Santamaria Echeverria (2023) - Governing Health Data for Research, Development, and Innovation: The Missteps of the European Health Data Space Proposal - [link]
- Enrique Santamaria Echeverria (2024) - REMEMBRANCE OF FUTURES PAST AND THE ESCAPE FROM SPEED: IN SEARCH OF NEW POLITICAL AND LEGAL IMAGINARIES FOR TECHNOLOGY REGULATION (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Josje de Vogel, Alberto Quintavalla, Martien Schaub, Cees Zweistra, Enrique Santamaria Echeverria, Julia Krämer, Clara Boggini, Klaus Heine, Madeleine Merkx, Sascha van Schendel & Vladimir Belev (2024) - Law & Digitalisation research seminar (Participant)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Enrique Santamaria Echeverria (2024) - Regulatory Infrastructure of AI-driven Biomedical Research (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - Enrique Santamaria Echeverria (2024) - Our Common Body? Biological Materials, Data and Knowledge for Research and Development (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - Enrique Santamaria Echeverria (2023) - Human Body Commons for Research and Development: The Case of Data Cooperatives (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Enrique Santamaria Echeverria (2023) - Looking for the common good in Health Governance (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Enrique Santamaria Echeverria, Koen Swinnen, René Repasi & Lieselot Bisschop (2023) - The Public-Private Challenge in Current EU Law and Policy (Participant)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Enrique Santamaria Echeverria & Alberto Quintavalla (2023) - A Systematic Approach to Human Rights Challenges of AI: The Case of Internet of Bodies (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Enrique Santamaria Echeverria (2023) - The Human Body Commons: A Private Law Contribution for the Advancement of the Right to Health (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Enrique Santamaria Echeverria (2023) - The European Health Data Space. A blanket authorisation for health data capture? (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Enrique Santamaria Echeverria (2023) - The European Strategy for Data and the European Health Data Space (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - Enrique Santamaria Echeverria (2023) - The Human Body Commons: A Private Law Contribution for the Advancement of the Right to Health (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Enrique Santamaria Echeverria (2022) - The Public-Private Challenge: Innovating Legal and Regulatory Paradigms (Participant)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Enrique Santamaria Echeverria (2022) - Mining the human body. A commons approach against the enclosure of personal data and scientific knowledge (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Enrique Santamaria Echeverria (2022) - Should human biological material and associated data for research be treated as commons? Towards a satisfactory legal framework at the intersection of private law, human rights and the protection of public interests (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Enrique Santamaria Echeverria (2022) - First joint PhD day of the Sector Plan for Law (Participant)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic
Law and data
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RT07
Law Clinic International and European Un
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RB57
Globalization and Multidimensional Legal
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RB52
Thesis Master Int. and Eur. Union Law
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RS20
