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Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences

Faculty of Law
 
Prof. Sir Jonathan Montgomery
'Medicine and the Rule of Law'
Baron de Lancey Lecture 2024
Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
 
CeBIL Annual Symposium 2023
Intellectual Property & Biologics: Policy Challenges and Responses
Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
 

16 March 2023

Prof. Emily Jackson
'Assisted Dying: Slippery Slopes and Unintended Consequences'
Baron de Lancey Lecture 2023
Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
 

20 September 2022

Differential Diagnisis and the Law: Seminar and Workshop
Co-organised with THIS Institute
Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge
 
CeBIL Annual Symposium 2022
Intellectual Property & Drug Repurposing: New Frontiers
Newnham College, University of Cambridge
 
Dr John Liddicoat
"Repositioning Generic Drugs: Empirical Realities"
Munich Summer Institute
Munich, Germany
 
Dr Caterina Milo
"Informed consent to abortion: is the medical involvement a challenge?"
Cambridge Reproduction Early Researchers Seminar Series
Online
  
Dr John Liddicoat
"Patent Repositioning for rare diseases - too much, too little or just right?
Nordic Intellectual Property Review Webinar
Online
 
Prof. Bartha Knoppers
"Re-engineering the Regulation of Regenerative Medicine?"
Baron de Lancey Lecture 2022
Faculty of Law, Univresity of Cambridge
 
Dr Caterina Milo
Covid-19 Vaccines and the Role of Informed Consent
Cambridge Socio-Legal Group Webinar
Online
 
CeBIL Symposium 2021
Orphan Drug Innovation: Needs and Priorities
Online
 

02 July 2021  

Professor Jens Scherpe 
"Parentage, parenthood, parental responsibility"
Reproduction Showcase
Cambridge Reproduction SRI
Online
  

15 June 2021

Dr John Liddicoat
"Waste is an unused resource: Public sector trials on generic drugs"
Findacure's Eigth Annual Drug Repurposing for Rare Diseases Conference
Online
 
Dr Jeffrey Skopek
"Who Counts? What Counts? (Panelist)
Rethinking the Ethics of Vaccincation
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
Online
 
Dr Silvia Camporesi
"Law, Hormones, and Sport: a level playing field?"
Baron de Lancey Lecture 2021 
Online
 
Ms Jinal Dadiya
"Medical need and cost effectiveness in ART funding: best practices for realising reproductive rights"
University of Cambridge Reproduction SRI Early Researchers Seminar Series
Online
 
Dr John Liddicoat
"Gene patenting and a reflection on the ongoing review of Article 27.3(b) of the TRIPS Agreement"
TRIPS@25 - Webinar on Patents, Biotechnology and Biodiversity
World Trade Organisation
Online
 
Dr Stevie Martin
Selywn College Law Society Assisted Dying Debate
Online
   
Dr Jeffrey Skopek
"What Difference Does It Make? "Black Box" Medicine and the Law"
Health and Artificial Intelligence: Law, Ethics and Society
Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, University of Hong Kong 
  
Dr Rumiana Yotova
"International Law, Science and Technology in the Time of COVID-19"
Lauterpacht Centre for International Law
 
Matt Jordan
"Reproductive Research at the Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences"
Cambridge Reproduction SRI Forum
 
Isabelle Le Gallez
"Communicating Uncertainty in Medical Diagnoses: do Bolam or Montgomery Define the Standard of Care?"
Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference
 
Dr Jeffrey Skopek and Ms Jennifer Anderson
"What Difference Does It Make? AI in Healthcare Through the Lens of Tort Law
Future Health and New Technologies: Opportunities and Responsibilities
HeLEX, University of Oxford
 
Dr Jeffrey Skopek and Ms Jennifer Anderson
"What Difference Does It Make? “Black Box” Medicine and the Law"
Issues in Explainable AI 2: Understanding and Explaining in Healthcare
Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
 
Professor Bartha Knoppers
"Law, Hormones, and Sport: a level playing field?"
The 2020 Baron de Lancey Lecture
Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
 
Dr Kathy Liddell
Anne McLaren Symposium 2020: Synthetic gametes and germline development for science and society
Christ's College, University of Cambridge
 
Dr Jeffrey Skopek
"Liability for Misdiagnosis by AI"
Health and Artificial Intelligence: Law, Ethics and Society
University of Hong Kong
 

6 September 2019

CeBIL Annual Symposium 2019:
Legal Innovation to Support the Development of Antimicrobial Drugs
Christ's College, University of Cambridge
 
International Surrogacy Forum 2019
Selwyn College and Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

  

Dr Rumiana Yotova
"Gene Editing and the Rights of Future Generations"
Think Tank on "Legal Boundaries and the 'Human' in Humanity"
Centre of Genomics and Policy, McGill University
  
Dr Jeffrey Skopek
"Human Enhancement/Therapies/Eugenics"
Think Tank on "Legal Boundaries and the 'Human' in Humanity"
Centre of Genomics and Policy, McGill University
 
Dr Jeffrey Skopek
"What is Privacy? Losses Versus Violations"
The Methodology and Ethics of Targeting - Closed Workshop
The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
  
Dr Jeffrey Skopek
Panel Discussion
The Methodology and Ethics of Targeting - Public Lecture
The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
  
Dr John Liddicoat
"Legal Academic Research and Public Policy"
Babraham Institute
 
Dr Jeffrey Skopek
"The Harms of Human Genetic Enhancement"
Intersection of Law & Medicine Series: Genetically Enhanced Humans
Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar
 
Dr Imogen Goold
"Should Parents Have the Final Say on the Medical Treatment of their Children?"
The 2019 Baron de Lancey Lecture
Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
 

3 December 2018

Dr Kathy Liddell
"Diagnostics and Intellectual Property: Introduction and Overview"
Borysiewicz Biomedical Sciences Fellowship Programme
The Postdoc Centre, Eddington
  
Prof. Bartha Knoppers
"Global Harmonisation of Data for Health Research: pipe dream or possible?"
Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
 
"The Development of Abortion Rights in a Changing Europe"
Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
 

07 September 2018

CeBIL Annual Symposium 2018:
Precision Medicine, Artificial Intelligence and the Law
Christ's College, University of Cambridge
  
Dr David Erdos
"Going Global? The General Data Protection Regulation and Transborder Data Flow in an Interconnected World"
Privacy, Data Protection and Data-Sharing in Biomedical Research
University of Hong Kong, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
 
Dr Jeffrey Skopek
"What is Privacy? (What is Data Protection?)"
Privacy, Data Protection and Data-Sharing in Biomedical Research
University of Hong Kong, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
 
Dr Jeffrey Skopek
"The Ethics of Enhancement"
Policy and Regulatory Responses to New Genomic and Reproductive Technologies
University of Hong Kong, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
 
Dr Jeffrey Skopek
"Translating Informed Consent"
Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong
 
Dr Kathy Liddell
"Genome edition: how far should we go?"
Panel Discussion as part of the Cambridge Science Festival
Espresso Library, Cambridge
   
Professor I. Glenn Cohen
"Parenthood Disrupted(?): The Dilemmas Raised by Reproductive Technologies"
The 2018 Baron de Lancey Lecture
Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
  
Dr Kathy Liddell and Dr Mateo Aboy
"CeBIL Kick-Off Conference: Innovation Gaps on Life Science Frontiers? From Antimicrobial Resistance & the Bad Bugs to New Uses, AI & the Black Box"
University of Copenhagen
 
Dr Kathy Liddell
"IP Policies for Large Bioresources: the fiction, fantasy and future of openness"
Legal Perspectives on Synthetic Biology and Gene Editing
Centre for Information and Innovation Law, University of Copenhagen
 
Dr John Liddicoat
"A deep dive into the regulatory soup of precision medicine: are new gene-based technologies drowning?"
Legal Perspectives on Synthetic Biology and Gene Editing
Centre for Information and Innovation Law, University of Copenhagen
 
Dr Colm McGrath
"Private Law and the Challenge of AMR"
Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance: Meeting the Global Challenge of AMR
Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong
 
Colm McGrath
"The roots of German medical malpractice"
Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
 

25-26 August 2017

Compulsory Mental Health Treatment in Hong Kong: Which Way Forward?
(a conference organised with LML support)
University of Hong Kong
  
Prof. Bartha Knoppers
"Genetic Databases: Who is Liable, When, and For What?"
Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, University of Cambridge
 
Prof. Bartha Knoppers and Dr. Rumiana Yotova
"Gene Editing: From Innovative Science to Effective Policy"
The Møller Centre, Cambridge
   
Dr Kathy Liddell
CSaP Fourteenth Policy Leaders Fellowship Roundtable
Small Drawing Room, Master's Lodge, Trinity College, Cambridge
 
Dr Jeffrey M. Skopek
"Privacy and Big Data"
Academia Sinica
Taiwan 
  
Colm McGrath
"Compensation and property in the body"
Who Owns Your Body?  
University of Hong Kong
  
Dr Jeffrey M. Skopek
"Should Anonymization Extinguish Our Rights? "
Who Owns Your Body?  
University of Hong Kong
    
Who Owns Your Body? 
(a conference co-sponsored by LML)
University of Hong Kong
 
Dr Jeffrey Skopek
"The Ethics of Human Genome Enhancement"
Regulatory Issues Associated with Genome Editing and Gene Drive - The Regulation of Synthetic Biology in Asia
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 
 
Matt Jordan
Panellist at the Eighteenth Annual Student Human Rights Conference
University of Nottingham, Human Rights Law Centre
  
Professor Bartha Knoppers and Dr Rumiana Yotova
"The Right to Enjoy the Benefits of Science: Sentiment or Law?"
Finely Library, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge
  
Dr Julia Powles
"Data Kingdoms and Keys: The Case of Google and the NHS"
University of Leeds 
 
Dr Rumiana Yotova
Research Visit to McGill University
McGill University, Montreal
 
Dr Kathy Liddell
Chair of 'Who Owns Us' panel as part of the Cambridge Science Festival
Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Cambridge
  
Dr Jeffrey M. Skopek  
"Big Data, Health Predictions, and Privacy”
Global Genes, Local Concerns: A Symposium on Legal, Ethical and Scientific Challenges in International Biobanking
University of Copenhagen 
  
Dr Kathy Liddell
Panellist at Cambridge Science Festival ED Event
McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street, Cambridge
  
Colm McGrath
"Medical Advice, Communication and Comprehension"
Medical Defence Union, London
 
Dr John Liddicoat
"What is the Practical Significance of Myriad for Genomic Medicine?"
Presentation at NYLS Scholarship Luncheon
New York Law School, Tribeca, New York City, New York
 
Saimo Chahal QC
"To Die or Not to Die: Assisted Dying in England and Wales - The Current Legal, Moral and Social Issues”
Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
  
Dr John Liddicoat
Research Visit to New York Law School
Tribeca, New York City, New York
 
Dr John Liddicoat
"The Practical Effect of Myriad on patent claims"
Presentation at Molecular Med Tri-Con 2017
Moscone Conference Centre, San Francisco, California
  
Dr Jeffrey M Skopek
“Big Data’s Epistemology and Its Implications for Precision Medicine and Privacy”
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
   
Dr Jeffrey M. Skopek  
"Digital Platforms and New Ways of Caring”
Digital Health 2017: Transforming Lives by Innovating Healthcare
The Shard, London
   
Ms Stevie Martin
Presentation on Early Detection of Cancer: Legal and Ethical Issues.
CRUK Cambridge Institute
  
Prof. Yuji Shiroshita and Dr. Matt Dyson
Workshop on the legal issues of "Diseased Kidney Transplantation": A Possibility of Extended Criteria Donors?
Hokkaido University, Tokyo Office
 
Dr John Liddicoat
Panelist at PGH Foundation conference: 'Personalised Health: Making the Most of Genomics'
Robinson College
 
Dr John Liddicoat
Presentation at Cambridge Enterprise and Technology Club
 
"Body Politics:  The Dilemmas of Regulating New Technologies"
2016 Philomathia Symposium 
Magdalene College, University of Cambridge
 
Dr Jeffrey Skopek
“Three Puzzles for Animal Rights: Cows, Lions, and Featherless Chickens”
Faculty of Law
University of Cambridge 
  
Dr John Liddicoat
Presentation at Workshop on Gene Editing
 
Dr John Liddicoat
Presentation at Workshop on Material Transfer Agreements
 
Dr David Erdos
"Data Protection in an Age of User-Generated Content"
WYNG-Hatton Lecture 2016
University of Hong Kong
 
Dr John Liddicoat
"Challenges for Early-Career Academics"
University of Tasmania 
 
Dr Jeffrey Skopek
"Privacy in Numbers? Biological Bodies of Data, Big Data's Epistemology, and the Legal and Ethical Status of Health Inferences” (presentation)
"Genomic Data Privacy" (roundtable discussion)
Biodata World Congress 2016
Wellcome Genome Campus
Cambridge
  
Dr Kathy Liddell
'Is Earlier Necessarily Better?'
Panel at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas
   
Colm McGrath
‘Malpractice as Lex Specialis: European and English Models’
Associazione Scientifica Aquilia (Rome)
  
Eastern and Western Perspectives on Surrogacy
(international conference co-organized by LML)
University of Hong Kong
  
Workshop on 'The Legal Status of Intersex Persons'
Attendance by invitation only
  
Dr Kathy Liddell
"Legal Issues in the Early Detection of Cancer"
Early Detection Workshop
MRC Cancer Unit
Trinity College
University of Cambridge
  
Dr Claire Fenton-Glynn
"Revisiting parenthood in the 21st Century"
Culture, Dispute Resolution and the Modernised Family
International Centre for Family Law, Policy and Practice
London
  
Professor Bartha Knoppers 
"The measured man? Is the time right for a move from genetic testing and biobanking at specific time-points to continuous, real-time monitoring of individuals?"
Hughes Hall
University of Cambridge 
  
29th Annual Privacy Laws and Business Conference 
St John's College
University of Cambridge  
  
Dr Okeoghene Odudu
'Taking stock of NHS governance after the 2013 reforms: public procurement, competition and conflict'
Bristol, 9am-5pm

    

Dr Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan
The Protection of Intellectual Property in International Law
OUP
  
Mr Colm McGrath
The Duty to Disclose: How Much Information Is Too Much?
Queen's University Belfast

     

An Insight into the Patentability and Enforcement of Second Medical Use Patents in the EPO and English Courts Seminar
Marks & Clerk LLP, 62-68 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 1LA
2pm-5pm
  
20 May 2016
Dr Jeffrey Skopek 
"Privacy in Numbers? Biological Bodies of Data, Big Data's Epistemology, and the Legal and Ethical Status of Health Inferences”
Legal Dimensions of Big Data in the Health and Life Sciences
University of Copenhagen
    
Dr David Erdos
"Information Regulation and Freedom of Expression"
Tenth Law and the Information Society Symposium
Fordham University's School of Law
   
Professor Di Nicol
"University Material Transfer Agreements: Transfer of Biological Materials and Data for Research"
University of Tasmania 
    
6 May 2016
Dr Jeffery Skopek 
"Privacy in Numbers? Biological Bodies of Data, Big Data's Epistemology, and the Legal and Ethical Status of Health Inferences”
Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics
Harvard Law School
  
Dr David Erdos 
"Historic Victory or False Dawn?  Analysing the EU Data Protection Regulation"
CELS/CIPIL Joint Seminar 
Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
  
Dr Matt Dyson and Dr Kourosh Saeb-Parsy
"Legal Considerations on Pre-Mortem Interventions in Donation After Circulatory Death"
4th ELPAT Conference
Rome 
  
Dr Kathy Liddell and Dr John Liddicoat
"The Changing IP Landscape for Precision Medicine"
Precision Medicine: Legal and Ethical Challenges
University of Hong Kong
       
7 April 2016
Dr Jeffrey Skopek
"Personalized Rationing: The Law and Ethics of Differentiation”
Precision Medicine: Legal and Ethical Challenges
University of Hong Kong
  
Mr Colm McGrath
"Liability for Failure to Disclose and the Challenge of Precision Medicine"
Precision Medicine: Legal and Ethical Challenges
University of Hong Kong
  
Precision Medicine: Legal and Ethical Challenges
(international conference)
University of Hong Kong
  
Dr Jeffrey Skopek
Panelist on "Bioethics and Law"
The Future of Health Law and Policy 
Harvard Law School
  
Dr Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan
Conflict-of-Laws Approach to Competing Rationalities in
International Law: The Case of Plain Packaging between IP, Trade, Investment and Health
Hanken School of Economics
Helsinki
   
Dr Stephanie Palmer
"Assisted Dying: Canadian and UK Legal Approaches"
Canadian Annual Guest Lecture
Leicester Law School
 
Challenges for Evidence in Law and Public Health
(workshop by invitation)
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
 
James Badenoch QC
"Montgomery: a dramatic change in the law on patient consent?"
The Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture
University of Cambridge
 
Dr. Rumiana Yotova
"Regulating Gene Editing: A Comparative Discourse"
Stem Cells & Society Workshop: Planning for the Future of Gene Editing
Jesus College, University of Cambridge
 
Large DNA Bioresources: Goals, Challenges and Proposals Associated with IP and Open Innovation
(an LML and CsAP workshop -- by invitation)
Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
 
Colm McGrath
"The Instability of Patients' Rights"
Cambridge Private Law Centre's Work in Progress Seminar
Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
 
Dr. Rumiana Yotova
"The regulation of gene editing under international law"
Human Enhancement and the Law: Regulating for the Future
St. Anne's College, University of Oxford
    
Dr Claire Fenton-Glynn
“Outsourcing Ethical Dilemmas: Regulating International Surrogacy
Arrangements” (2016) 24(1) Medical Law Review 59
     
Dr David Erdos
"Regulation of Medical Research Under European Data Protection: In Theory and Practice"
The PHG Foundation Life Sciences & Society Seminar
Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge
 
Dr Jens Scherpe
"'New Reproductive Technologies, Surrogacy and the Three-Parent Baby Conundrum:  The Family Law Perspective"
University of Hong Kong - Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
 
Dr Kathy Liddell
"Immorality and Patents: The Exclusion of Inventions Contrary to Ordre Public and Morality"
Patents on Life: Through the Lenses of Law, Religious Faith and Social Justice
Von Hügel Institute, St. Edmund's College, University of Cambridge
 
Colm McGrath
"Juristenrunde: The Long Road to Patients' Rights in the UK"
The Institute for European Tort Law, Vienna
   
Dr Stephanie Palmer
"‘The choice is cruel’: Assisted suicide and Charter Rights in Canada" [2015] 74 Cambridge Law Journal 191-194
    
Dr Okeoghene Odudu
"The Application of Competition Law to NHS Institutions in England"
The Antitrust Enforcement Symposium 2015
University of Oxford
 
Dr Jeffrey Skopek 
"The Fragmentation and Blurring of Categories in Personalized Medicine”
Translation in Healthcare: Exploring the Impact of Emerging Technologies
University of Oxford
 
Dr Jeffrey Skopek
"Individuals and Bodies of Data"
Policy-making in the Big Data Era: Opportunities and Challenges
University of Cambridge
 
Dr Okeoghene Odudu
"Competition Law and Public Bodies: The NHS"
Contemporary Challenges in Competition Law
University of Leeds
 
Dr David Erdos
"Opportunity or Threat? EU Data Protection Reform and the Future of Social Science and Humanities Governance"
Centre for Research in the Arts Social Sciences and Humanities 
University of Cambridge
 
Dr Kathy Liddell and Dr Michael Waibel
"International Investment Law and Patent Law Flexibility: Eli Lilly’s patents on Zyprexa and Strattera"
University of Cambridge
 
Dr Kathy Liddell
"Realising Genomic Medicine: Intellectual Property Issues"
University of Cambridge
 
Dr Jeffrey Skopek
"Personal Data and Personalized Medicine"
PHG Foundation Life Sciences & Society Seminar
Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge
 
Dr Matt Dyson and Nicky Padfield
"Transplantation and the Law"
Transplant Unit
Addenbrooke's Hospital
Cambridge
 
Professor Paul Mevis (Erasmus University of Rotterdam)
"Voluntary Euthanasia and Assisted Dying: The Position in The Netherlands"
The Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture
University of Cambridge
 
Dr Kathy Liddell
Public Policy SRI Workshop Participant
Neuroscience in the Courtroom
University of Cambridge
 
Professor John Spencer
"Criminalising Sickness? Liability for the Transmission of Disease"
Wyng-Hatton Lecture
University of Hong Kong
  
Dr Stephanie Palmer
"Regulating Unhealthy Life Styles in The UK and South Africa: Constitutional Issues" in Tania Voon, Andrew D. Mitchell & Jonathan Liberman, Regulating Tobacco, Alcohol and Unhealthy Foods: The Legal Issues (Routledge UK) (Ed)