Josè–Antonio Seoane is Associate professor of Philosophy of Law at the Universidade da Coruña (Spain). He is Doctor of Law (Universidade da Coruña, 1996) and Expert in Bioethics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, since 2000.
He has expanded his studies in Germany (Universität zu Köln and Christian–Albrechts–Universität zu Kiel) and in the United Kingdom (University of Oxford).
His research and publications have dealt with issues of legal argumentation (transformation of modern legal systems, practical and legal reasoning, human rights, bioethics and health law, disability, end–of–life decisions, privacy, conscientious objection, type and practical reason, norms and arts: interpretation, creation and improvisation).
His publications include, for example: Health justice and rights (Politeia, 2019) and A rights-based theory for health care In JA Seoane & O Vergara (ed.), The discourse of biorights. Bioethics, Biopolitics, Biolaw (Dordrecht, Springer 2019).
He is president of the Research and Teaching Ethics Committee at the Universidade da Coruña and a member of the Expert Group on Bioethics of the Spanish National Transplant Organization.