Author: Brigitte E.S. Jansen

Prof. Jürgen W. Simon was head of the Institute of Law at the University of Lüneburg, as well as head of the Research Centre of Biotechnology and Law, of the European Academy of Environment and Economy, and of “Further Education in Management and Law”, all in Lüneburg. After gaining a Law degree and an MBA, both from the University of Munich, he became a Doctor of Law in 1978 and then attained a postdoctoral qualification in Civil Law, Economic Law and Law of Informatics in Hanover in 1988. He was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Federal Biological Association of the Federal Working Group on Xenotransplantation with the Federal Ministry of Research and of the Biological Federal Association, Braunschweig.