Description

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The book describes the development of public opinion, jurisdiction and legislation concerning Euthanasia and Suicide in The Netherlands during the last 70 years until summer 2021 against a historical background and with a short excursus to German law and jurisdiction.

About the Author

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Irene Sagel-Grande studied German Law, Jurisprudence and Criminology at Hamburg University and took her PhD at Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. From 1973 to 1976 she was attached to Amsterdam University as co- editor of "Justiz und NS- Verbrechen", a publication of German criminal judgements between 1945 and 1966 on National Socialist culpable homicide. Then she studied Dutch Law and Criminology at Free University Amsterdam, from where she graduated in 1981. After many years as Associate Professor in the Department of Penal Law and Criminology, as well as in the Department for Legal History, Private International Law and Comparative Private Law at Leiden University, she was appointed to the Department Hanse Law School of Groningen University that offered the possibility to study Dutch and German Law at the same time with exam recognition in both countries during several years.