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This January, LML Director Professor Kathy Liddell moderated a roundtable discussion entitled ‘Data Citizenship: Who Owns Your Genome’ at the 2026 Festival of Genomics and Biodata in London. The Festival, one of the UK’s largest life sciences events, focusses on AI, biodata, diagnostics, drug discovery, women’s health, and genomic medicine.The roun…

In December 2025, LML Research Projects Coordinator Natalie Kiilu presented a poster titled “Future-Proofing Article X: Pandemic-Ready Approaches to Information Hazards” at the 7th Session of the Working Group on the Strengthening of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in Geneva.Natalie attended the session as part of the NTI Next Generation fo…

This November, LML Director Prof Kathy Liddell hosted a sandwich lunch for the 2025/26 LLM class in Intellectual Property. The event marked the end of the Michaelmas term, during which students have settled into Cambridge life and engaged deeply with their studies. The lunch offered a welcome opportunity to socialise and reflect on their experience…

This November, LML was pleased to take part in the Science, Technology and Society (STS) Fishbowl Experiment organised by the Science and Technology Studies Cambridge Network (SCaN). The experimental workshop, conducted in an open, rotating “fishbowl” discussion format, brought together diverse stakeholders to shape an emerging interdisciplinary ag…

LML is delighted to be hosting Dr Steven Steyl Lecturer in Bioethics in the School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame, Australia. During his time at LML, Dr Steyl is exploring the relationship between care, including health care, and Aristotelian character traits, with a particular focus on kindness and charity.“It’s an honour to visit the Centr…

This November, LML Deputy Director Prof Jeff Skopek was invited by Prof Kimberly Krawiec to discuss his work in progress, “Created to be Killed” on her Taboo Trades podcast.  The conversation explored a challenging ethical question about the practice of raising and killing animals for food (or for medical research, etc.): If these animals were to b…

This October, LML welcomed Professor Andrew Christie, the foundation Chair of Intellectual Property at Melbourne Law School as Visiting Scholar. During his visit, Prof. Christie has been examining the UK's patent term extension (PTE) framework, including divergent case law and proposed reforms. This analysis is expected to yield insights into the A…

LML was delighted to welcome Professor Emily Jackson for a talk organised by the student-led Cambridge University Medical Law Society (CUMLS) on “Global Shifts in Reproductive Rights.” The lecture explored recent developments in the United States and the United Kingdom, including the evolving legal landscape surrounding the decriminalisation of abo…

This September, Matt Jordan, a PhD student and member of LML delivered a talk on Legal Boundedness, Lived Experiences and the Liminal Self during the 2025 AHRC International Conference at Queen’s College, University of Oxford. Speaking on the Perspectives of Methodology panel, Matt drew upon his PhD research on the experiences of surrogates and tra…

We are pleased to announce that Dr Ira Chadha-Sridhar, our Hatton-WYNG Junior Research Fellow, will publish her forthcoming book Care and the Mandate of Medical Law with Oxford University Press as part of its Oxford Legal Philosophy series.Medical professionals are bound by the expectation that they will exercise a reasonable duty of care when trea…

This October, LML was delighted to welcome Professor Michael Hopkins as a new member of the team. Professor Hopkins joins LML as a part-time Senior Research Associate within the International Collaborative Bioscience Innovation & Law (Inter-CeBIL) Programme. He will work closely with Professor Kathy Liddell (LML Director) and other LML colleagues o…

On 5 September, we were delighted to welcome Ms Tia Whitmore to the LML community as the Cambridge University Medical Law Society (CUMLS) Law Ambassador. Tia is a second-year law student at St Catherine’s College passionately interested in medical law, especially medical negligence. Since its founding in 2021, CUMLS has offered students the chance …

LML is delighted to host Professor Erik Hahn as a Visiting Research Scholar. Professor Hahn, Professor of Health at the University of Applied Sciences in Zittau/Görlitz & the Technical University of Dresden, will use his time at LML to conduct a comparative study on telemedicine regulation in Germany and the UK. His research will explore how the co…

We are delighted to announce that Dr John Liddicoat has been promoted to Reader at King’s College London. Dr Liddicoat joined King’s in 2022 as a Senior Lecturer, after nearly seven years at LML where he authored numerous papers particularly in collaboration with Professors Liddell and Aboy.Since leaving LML, he has remained an affiliate, continuin…

This summer, Marno Swart, a PhD student and member of LML taught the module Controversies in Medical Ethics and Law as part of the Downing College International Programme’s Law and HSPS stream, welcoming students aged 15–18 from around the world. Over six weeks, Marno guided three cohorts of students through some of the most pressing debates in med…