Health Law and Life Sciences

Health Law and Bioethics is one of BAS’s main areas of expertise, encompassing topics of increasing current relevance and social importance, such as necessary and informed consent, the duty to inform, the processing of health data, the duty of confidentiality, the responsibility of health professionals, the administrative organization of health, the protection of the right to health, the licensing of health units, the regulation of the health sector, the legal framework for transplantation and medically assisted reproduction, the practice and regulation of health professions, conventions in the health field, and public-private partnerships in health.

BAS intervenes in all relevant topics in this area, with particular emphasis on the increasingly requested advice and representation in matters related to the liability of healthcare professionals (medical liability, among others) in civil, contractual, extra-contractual and criminal aspects.

Through lawyers with extensive and long-standing experience in consulting for institutions and establishments operating in the healthcare field, BAS professionals are knowledgeable about the specificities of this sector and capable of solving the current problems and challenges that this expanding branch of knowledge presents.