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
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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 - [link]
- 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 & Julie Hoppenbrouwers (2025) - Prediction technologies and the socio-legal imaginaries of the future (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Enrique Santamaria Echeverria (2025) - Law in the Age of Transitions: Public Interests and Private Powers (Participant)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Enrique Santamaria Echeverria (2024) - “Legal perspectives on integrating environmental sustainability into data governance: the case of health data (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Enrique Santamaria Echeverria (2024) - The Digital and Green Transitions: Twins in Tension (Participant)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - 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 & Tine De Moor (2024) - Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity Small Grant
- Enrique Santamaria Echeverria (2022) - ESKAS Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship
