Primary fields of research

In her research Janne Rothmar Herrmann focuses on the legal regulation of health technology and health care, including:

• Law, Science & Technology
• Biolaw and Medical Law
• Bioethics and research ethics
• Reproductive rights, abortion, assisted reproduction
• Conscientious objection
• Law & Ethics

Current research interests include reproductive rights, the interaction between law and science and regulation of bioethical dilemmas in general.

Current research:

• Principal Investigator "Reconceptualising Reproductive Rights" (funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark)
• Partner in research project TechnoDeath: Technologies of Death and Dying at the Beginning of Life" (funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark)
• Partner in research project Ice Age. Entangled Lives, Times and Ethics in Fertility Preservation (funded by the Danish Research Council)
• Partner in research project JURFAST - Legal framework for researchers' use of health data (funded by the Lundbeck Foundation)
• Partner in The Cryopolitics of Reproduction in Denmark and Israel (funded by the International Network Programme)

Recently published The Cryopolitics of Reproduction - A New Scandinavian Ice Age, Emerald (with Kroløkke, Petsersen, Bach, Adrian, Hansen, Petersen)
Reviews:
"The Cryopolitics of Reproduction offers a brilliant and empirically rich account of how the cryopreservation of reproductive material in Scandinavian countries (and beyond) is entangled with social imaginaries, moral expectations and gendered narratives. Engaging in a truly interdisciplinary dialogue that brings together feminist theory, cultural studies, medical sociology, science and technology studies, reproductive law and applied ethics, the book is an essential contribution to critically investigate current cryopolitical regimes"- Thomas Lemke, Professor of Sociology with Focus on Biotechnologies, Nature and Society, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany). ‘If cryopolitics is defined as the harnessing of low temperature to make live and not let die, then a cryopolitical analysis must account for its role transforming reproduction—human and otherwise. The Cryopolitics of Reproduction on Ice represents a landmark contribution to this project. The authors draw on recent critical theory to examine how such transformations have unfolded in Scandinavia. In doing so, they reveal how legal notions of the family shape and are shaped by this new ice age" - Joanna Radin, Associate Professor, Section of the History of Medicine, Yale

Appointed member of the Dataethics Council by the Minister for Justice 2019-2023 and alternate member of the Committee for Scientific Misconduct 2017-2021 by the Minister of Science and elected governor for the World Association for Medical Law during 2018-2022. Sice 2010 serving as a board member of the Danish Society for Medical Philosophy, Ethics and Methodology, during 2010-2015 she was Danish member of the Nordic Committee on Bioethics by appointment by the Nordic Council of Ministers and she has previously served on the Board of the European Association of Health Law. She is appointed external examiner in medical philosophy and health law at the Danish Medical Schools. She serves as scientific expert and ethics expert for the European Commission in the assessment of Horizon2020 projects.

Teaching

• Biolaw and bioethics (master level)
• Privacy and Technology (bachelor level)

Supervision of LLB, LLM and PhD students

CV

Education
2008: PhD, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen
2002: Candidata juris (LL.M.), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen
2000: LL.B., Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

Visiting scholarship etc
2019: Visiting researcher, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
2017: Visiting researcher, Queen Mary University of London
2009: English Legal Methods, University of Cambridge
2006: Visiting researcher, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg 

Editor
2009- 2010: Editor of Retfærd - Nordic Journal on Law and Justice

External appointments
2017-2021 Alternate member of the Committee on Scientific Misconduct, appointed by the Minister for Science
2017-2018 Chair of the Jurisprudential Expert Group, the Bibliometric Research Indicator
2013-2018 Appointed external examiner by the Ministry of Science for the Danish medical Schools and Public Health Schools in theory of science, ethics, medical law
2010-2015 Danish member of the Nordic Committee on Bioethics by appointment by the Nordic Council of Ministers

Assessments
2019:   External assessor, Associate Professorship, University of Gothenburg
2018:   Chair of assessment committee, post.doc position, University of Copenhagen
2017:   Scientific Assessor for the Research Council of the Faroe Islands
2016-:  Ethics expert for Research Executive Commission, EU Commission, ethics appraisals, ethics assesments, ethics follow ups
2015:    Member of assessment committee, post.doc. position at the University of Southern Denmark
2014:    External assessor for the Innovationfoundation
2013:    Chair of an assessment committee, associate professorship, The Faculty of Law Copenhagen

Research funding
2019-2022: Partner Technologies of Death and Dying at the Beginning of Life (grant awarded by Independent Research Fund Denmark)
2018-2021: Principal investigator Reconceptualising Reproductive Rights (grant awarded by Independent Research Fund Denmark)
2017:    Partner in Ice Age. Entangled Lives, Times and Ethics in Fertility Preservation (grant awarded by the Danish Research Council)
2017-2020: JURFAST - Use of Health Data in Research (grant awarded by Lundbeckfonden)
2013-2017: co-PI, Global Genes, Local Concerns, University of Copenhagen Interdisciplinary Excellence Programme

Knowledge of languages

• English
• French
• German

Possible conflicts of interest

Member of External Advisory Board (Cryos International)