Brigitte Feuillet-Liger is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Rennes 1 (France), where she specializes in Family Law, Human Rights and Bioethics.She is a Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France, member of the Institut de l’Ouest: Droit et Europe (IODE, UMR CNRS 6262), and Chair of the International Academic Network for Bioethics.She is Doctor Honoris Causa of University of Louvain (Belgium) and a recipient of the French Legion d’Honneur. She has been awarded numerous prizes, (Award of Dissez le Penanrun of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques; Emile Girardeau Award of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences (Institute of France) for her distinguished academic career, and has published extensively in the field of Law, Bioethics and Religion. Kristina Orfali, Ph.D., a graduate from the École Normale Supérieure (Paris), the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (France) is Professor of Bioethics at Columbia University Medical Center in New York. She has worked on patient's hospital experiences in a cross-cultural perspective, on clinician and family decision making in neonatal intensive care units and on bioethics in France and Europe. She has published several books and articles in Social Science and Medicine, The Journal of Clinical Ethics, Perspectives in Medicine and Biology, Sociology of Health and Illness, American Journal of Bioethics etc. She has a particular interest in empirical cross-cultural studies and comparative research in the field of bioethics. Before joining Columbia, Kristina Orfali has been an Assistant Professor in Medicine and Assistant Director at the MacLean Center for Clinical Ethics at the University of Chicago and Directeur de Recherches invitée at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France. As an ethicist she is a member of the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York ethics committee and a clinical ethicist consultant in paediatrics.
