Eastern and Western Perspectives on Surrogacy

The Centre for Medical Ethics & Law of the University of Hong Kong

 in conjunction with

 The Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences of University of Cambridge

are pleased to announce a conference on

Eastern and Western Perspectives on Surrogacy

Friday & Saturday, 9-10 September 2016

The University of Hong Kong

With the advances in artificial reproductive techniques, and an increasingly globalised world, surrogacy has gone from a niche practice to a global market, raising questions of parenthood, conflict of laws, and the commercialisation of the birth process. While there have been comparative studies undertaken concerning approaches to surrogacy from Europe and “Western” jurisdictions, there is gap in the literature with regard to the approach international surrogacy in Asia (and indeed Africa). As such, this conference will bring together academics from both Eastern and Western jurisdictions in order to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the confluences and tensions between the way in which surrogacy is approached in these two regions. Read more