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Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences

Faculty of Law
 
Read more at: Major Projects

Major Projects

Current Major Research Projects: International Collaborative Bioscience Innovation & Law (Inter-CeBIL) Programme Prof. Kathy Liddell, Prof. Mateo Aboy Liability from Harms Caused by the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Dr Jeffrey Skopek (PI), Ms Nicola Anderson (Research Associate)...


Read more at: Medical Research, Innovation and Incentives

Medical Research, Innovation and Incentives

Indicative publications are listed below. Please see LML members' individual pages for full publication lists. K Liddell , 'The Health Impact Fund: A Critique' in T Pogge, M Rimmer, K Rubenstein (eds.) Incentives for Global Health (Cambridge University Press 2010). S Gaisser, M Hopkins, K Liddell...


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Challenges

Patient Healthcare Consent and Capacity Diagnosis and Treatment Beginning of Life End of Life Population Health Pandemic Preparedness AMR Research on Human Subjects, Tissue and Data Consent Tissue Data Protection Biomedical Innovat ion Patents Regulatory Exclusivities Emerging Technologies AI and...


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Human Biomaterials and Personal Data

Indicative publications are listed below. Please see LML members' individual pages for full publication lists. J Skopek , 'Reasonable Expectations of Anonymity' (2015) 101 Virginia Law Review 691. J Skopek , 'Anonymity, the Production of Goods, and Institutional Design' (2014) 82 Fordham Law Review...


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Legal Expertise

Health Law and Bioethics Health Information Law Biomedical Intellectual Property Law Laws governing Emerging Health Technologies Pharmaceutical Law , Medical Device and IVD Law International and Human Rights Law Empirical Research and Evidence-based Policy Family and Reproductive Law


Read more at: Legal Expertise

Legal Expertise

Health Information Law Biomedical Intellectual Property Law Laws governing Emerging Health Technologies Pharmaceutical Law and Medical Device and IVD Law International and Human Rights Law Empirical Research and Evidence-Based Policy Family and Reproductive Law


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Healthcare and Medicine

Indicative publications are listed below. Please see LML members' individual pages for full publication lists. C McGrath , ‘Tort Law and the Special Case of Medicinal Products’ Canadian Business Law Journal. C McGrath , ‘The End of Expert Witness Immunity’ (2013) 4 European Review of Private Law...


Read more at: Evidence-based IP and Patent Landscaping

Evidence-based IP and Patent Landscaping

Indicative publications are listed below. Please see LML members' individual pages for full publication lists. M Aboy, C Crespo, K Liddell, N Davey, J Liddicoat, T Minssen , 'One year after Vanda , are diagnostics patents transforming into methods of treatment to overcome Mayo -based rejections...


Read more at: Collaborative Research Program in Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL)

Collaborative Research Program in Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL)

The Collaborative Research Program in Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL) is a substantial international collaboration between the University of Copenhagen's Law Faculty (principal organisation), Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School, the University of Cambridge's Centre for Law, Medicine and...


Read more at: Liability from Harms Caused by the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Liability from Harms Caused by the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

This two-year project will explore issues of civil liability that arise from the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare. We will focus in particular on harms caused by the use of machine learning algorithms in diagnosis and treatment decisions. Our aim is to evaluate how existing tort regimes...


Read more at: The Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project

The Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project

Dr David Erdos is a partner on the Human Rights, Big Data and Technology (HRBDT) Project , which is based at the Human Rights Centre of the University of Essex. This large-scale UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project aims to explore both the perils and the promises of the use of big...


Read more at: Realising Genomic Medicine: Intellectual Property issues Beyond the 'Old' DNA Patent Debates

Realising Genomic Medicine: Intellectual Property issues Beyond the 'Old' DNA Patent Debates

Realising Genomic Medicine: Intellectual Property Issues Genomic medicine is an emerging discipline that involves using genetic information about a patient as part of their clinical care. Since the sequencing of the human genome, a key goal has been to make genomic medicine an everyday reality...


Read more at: Justifications, Evidence and Public Health Laws: Case studies of standardised tobacco packaging and minimum pricing of alcohol

Justifications, Evidence and Public Health Laws: Case studies of standardised tobacco packaging and minimum pricing of alcohol

Justifications, Evidence and Public Health Laws: Case studies of standardised tobacco packaging and minimum pricing of alcohol Public initiatives to promote wider health benefits can have a significant economic impact on powerful corporations. Standardised tobacco packaging, alcohol pricing, and...


Read more at: Contemporary Legal Issues in Organ Transplantation

Contemporary Legal Issues in Organ Transplantation

Contemporary Legal Issues in Organ Transplantation This project is an initiative of the Faculty of Law, the Clinical School and the Cambridge Transplant Unit at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. The project is led by Dr Matt Dyson, Dr Kathy Liddell (Faculty of Law) and Mr Kourosh Saeb-Parsy (transplant...


Read more at: The Legal Status of Transsexual and Transgender Persons

The Legal Status of Transsexual and Transgender Persons

The need to allow a change of legal sex/gender in certain cases is no longer disputed in most jurisdictions, and for European countries, there is no question as to whether such a change should be allowed after the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Goodwin v. United Kingdom (...