Dr. Johan LEGEMAATE Legal counsel, Royal Dutch Medical Association (Utrecht, the Netherlands)

1982-1991	Legal counsel, National Foundation of Patient Advocates in Mental Healthcare
since 1991	Legal counsel, Royal Dutch Medical Association
1993-2003	Professor of Health Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam (part-time)

Member, Health Council of the Netherlands
Chairman, Dutch Health Law Association

Legal aspects of euthanasia and assisted suicide in the Netherlands 1973-1994, Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics, 4, 1995
Physician-assisted suicide in psychiatry: developments in the Netherlands, Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics, 6, 1997
Integrating health law and health policy: a European perspective, in: Health Policy, 60, 2002
The Dutch Euthanasia Act and related issues, in: Journal of Law and Medicine, 11, 2004

PS: Euthanasia – handling death in humanitarian way?