The 2023 Baron de Lancey Lecture - Assisted Dying: Slippery Slopes and Unintended Consequences
Prof. Emily Jackson (London School of Economics)
The Baron de Lancey Lecture is an annual public lecture hosted by the Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Law. It provides distinguished lawyers with a forum to debate their views on contemporary topics in medical law with a Cambridge audience.
This year, Prof. Emily Jackson (London School of Economics) will deliver a lecture discussing some of the practical pitfalls in trying to legislate to legalise assisted dying. Not only are supporters and opponents of legalisation often talking past each other, but also as one problem is solved, another may be created.
About the Speaker:
Emily Jackson is Professor of Law at the London School of Economics. She is a member of the British Medical Association Medical Ethics Committee, and until 2012, she was Deputy Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. From 2014-2017, she was a Judicial Appointments Commissioner. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, and in 2017 was awarded an OBE for services to higher education.
The Baron de Lancey Lecture series is kindly supported by the Ver Heyden de Lancey Fund.