Past Events

On 17^th October, Colm McGrath is giving a seminar in Cambridge as part of the termly series organised by the Centre for English Legal History (CELH).

Image courtesy of Centre for Medical Ethics & Law, University of Hong Kong.

On Friday 26th May 2017, the Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences (LML) will be hosting a Roundtable to discuss the topic of 'Legal Liability for Genetic Databases'.

What sort of harm can be caused by genetic databases, who is legally responsible, and in what circumstances?

The pace of scientific innovation in and around the life sciences has never been faster, and the implications of many of these innovations pose significant issues for policy-makers, especially for applications relating to human health.

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Kathy Liddell, Director of the LML, has been invited to participate in 
the fourteenth Policy Leaders Fellowship Roundtable organised by the 

Dr Skopek will present his work on privacy and big data during a visit to Academia Sinica, Taiwan, where he will also take a tour of the Taiwan Biobank and meet with several related research groups. 

On 7 April 2017, Colm McGrath presented his paper 'Compensation and property in the body' at 'Who Owns Your Body?', a conference organised by the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law at the University of Hong Kong and co-sponsored by LML.

LML is collaborating with the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law (Hong Kong University), PHG Foundation (Cambridge), and Centre of Genomics and Policy (McGill) to hold a conference on  'Who Owns Your Body?' at the University of Hong Kong on 6th-7th April 2017.

On 6th April 2017, Dr Skopek will be deliver a talk entitled 'Should Anonymization Extinguish Our Rights?' at the HKU Conference 'Who Owns Your Body?'.