Research involving human participants, biological materials and personal data underpins advances in medicine and the life sciences, while raising important legal and ethical questions about consent, privacy, governance and public trust. Our research examines the regulation of research involving human subjects, tissue and data across domestic, comparative and international contexts, with a focus on developing legal frameworks that enable responsible research and innovation while safeguarding individual rights and the public interest.
Examples of LML research in this field can be found below:
Consent
K Kostick-Quenet, M Corrales Compagnucci, M Aboy & T Minssen, Patient-centric federated learning: automating meaningful consent to health data sharing with smart contracts, Journal of Law and the Biosciences (2025).
K Liddell and J Skopek, “Informed Consent for Research Using Biospecimens, Genetic Information and Other Personal Data” (2017) University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 27/2017.
Data Protection
M Corrales Compagnucci, M Aboy, T Minssen, ‘Cross-Border Transfers of Personal Data after Schrems II: Supplementary Measures and New Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs)’ (2021) 4(2) Nordic Journal of European Law 37.
D Erdos, ‘A Bill for a Change? Analysing the UK Government’s Statutory Proposals on the Content of Data Protection and Electronic Privacy’ (2022) University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 13/2022.
D Erdos, ‘The UK and the EU personal data framework after Brexit: A new trade and cooperation partnership grounded in Council of Europe Convention 108+?’ (2022) 44 Computer Law & Security Review 105639.
