Mirjam Sombroek
Visiting Leiden Professor
Bio
From 1 October 2022, Mirjam Sombroek van Doorm (1968) is Professor of Law and Health at the Institute of Private Law at Leiden University (The Netherlands). On 26 April 2024 she delivered her inaugural address. At Leiden University she teaches health law in the master’s programme, and the interdisciplinary minor on child abuse. She also teaches health law at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas. She supervises theses in the field of health law, youth law & children’s rights. Porf. Sombroek van Doorm is also actively involved in postgraduate education, and frequently gives presentations and interviews. At this moment she is also supervising several PhD-students.
Additionally, she is member of the Dutch Health Council, acts as a disciplinary judge at the Regional Disciplinary Court for Healthcare in Amsterdam, and is a member of the Dutch Sports Council.
She is a co-author and member of an editorial board of several textbooks.
Professor Sombroek van Doorm represents Leiden University in the Self Steering Committee One Health of Una Europa (a collaboration between eleven leading European research universities).
From 2019 till 2023, she was a member of the Faculty Board of Leiden Law School at Leiden University.
Professor Sombroek van Doorm joins the UC Law SF Faculty in 2025 as a visiting professor to teach the course: Right to health from a human rights and children’s rights perspective.