Erick Valdés is a scholar with over 20 years of experience in teaching and researching at Higher Education Institutions in Latin America, Europe and the United States. Has also worked advising directors of Higher Education Institutions in Latin America by developing and designing strategies to optimize curricula and academic outcomes. Has written and published (as author and coauthor) several books in English and Spanish on biolaw, bioethics, globalization and distributive justice issues. Has also published over 70 articles on international journals of biolaw, bioethics, philosophy and social sciences in English and Spanish, and has lectured and talked at numerous international congresses and symposia in the United States, England, Spain, France, Holland, Denmark, Ireland, Russia, Japan, Turkey, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. Has served as visiting professor at several international universities, such as Princeton University and The London School of Economics and Political Sciences, among others. He is the editor and co-author of Biolaw and Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Building Answers for New Questions, published by Springer in 2019.

The Birth of Biolaw: From American Bioethics to European Biolaw.- Traditional Conceptions of Biolaw.- Principles of European Biolaw.- Reformulation and Juridification of Biolaw's Principles: A Possible New Framework.- A New Conception of Biolaw.- Biolaw and the Biosciences.- Technology, Nature, Animals and Biolaw.