Past Events

Professor Kimberly D. Krawiec from the University of Virginia School of Law delivered the 2025 Baron de Lancey lecture discussing "Repugnant transactions and taboo trades" — markets that are morally contested and sometimes even prohibited, such as sex work, commercial surrogacy, and the sale of organs, eggs, and sperm.

On 12 September 2024, LML Senior Research Associate Isaac Weldon and LML Director Prof Kathy Liddell hosted the GLEAN (Gathering Lessons from Environmental Governance for Antimicrobial Resistance) Workshop at Gonville & Caius College.

Prof. Sir Jonathan Montgomery (University College London) delivered the 2024 Baron de Lancey lecture discussing “Medicine and the Rule of Law”. He challenged lawyers (including judges) to improve the way they respect the rule of law, to avoid doctors and medicine being ruled by lawyers, rather than by the Rule of Law.

Biologics include some of the most innovative and expensive drugs today. They also raise some of the more complex intellectual property (IP) strategies. Patents provide exclusivity in national markets for the molecules, and trade secrecy shrouds the complex, secret manufacturing processes.

The 2023 Baron de Lancey Lecture - Assisted Dying: Slippery Slopes and Unintended Consequences

Prof. Emily Jackson (London School of Economics)

This Dissemination event presents the findings from a THIS (The Healthcare Improvement Studies) Institute interdisciplinary fellowship, held at the University of Cambridge.

Repurposing, the idea of finding new treatments for already authorised drugs, presents significant advantages for drug development. Modern drug development is hindered by high costs and research that takes over a decade. Repurposing is a potential solution to these problems because it is cheaper, faster and safer than developing new compounds.

On 10 June 2022, Dr John Liddicoat (LML Senior Research Associate) will present his paper ‘Repositioning Generic Drugs: Empirical Realities’ at the Munich Summer Institute. Only 8.5% of papers submitted to this conference are accepted for presentations. 

On Thursday 19 May 2022, Dr Caterina Milo will present at an online webinar, organised by the University of Cambridge's Reproduction SRI.

On Monday 25 April 2022, Dr John Liddicoat (LML Senior Research Associate) will participate in Patent Repositioning for rare diseases – too much, too little or just right?, a webinar organised by the Nordic Intellectual Property Review.