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This May, LML members came together for a relaxing pint by the River Cam to mark the end of the 2025/26 academic year. We were also pleased to welcome three early career visitors: Dr Tullia Penna, Ms Julia Fuchs and Mr Jan van Staalduinen to the End of Year Pub Evening. The event provided an opportunity for members to catch up, strengthen connectio…

LML is delighted to host Mr Jan van Staalduinen a PhD candidate and Lecturer from Leiden University. Jan joins LML following research visits to Oxford's Institute of European and Comparative Law and Vienna's Department of European, International and Comparative Law and Institute for European Tort Law.During his time at LML, Jan will focus on questi…

This March, LML was pleased to host Professor Timo Minssen, a long-standing Research Affiliate of the Centre. Professor Minssen leads the Inter-CeBIL collaboration under the Novo Nordisk Foundation grant, which focuses on developing knowledge and tools to support a competitive and sustainable life sciences innovation ecosystem. The collaboration br…

On 30 March, Professor Kathy Liddell (LML Director), Professor Michael Hopkins (LML Senior Research Associate), and Professor Timo Minssen (LML Research Affiliate) took part in the conference “Sustainability of the EU Pharma and Healthcare Market” at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. The conference was convened by the Intellectual Property Chair, …

On Wednesday 18 March 2026, LML hosted the Baron de Lancey lecture, which was delivered by Prof. Sir Ian Kennedy KC(Hon) FBA LLD. 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 share th…

On 10 March, LML Director Prof Kathy Liddell hosted a sandwich lunch for the 2025/26 LLM class in Law, Medicine and Life Sciences, offering them an opportunity to socialise and share their experiences as they anticipated the end of Lent Term.Throughout the term, the class explored key areas of medical law and ethics, from clinical negligence and pu…

On 26 February, LML members gathered during Lent Term for the Early Career Coffee Morning, reconnecting with colleagues and welcoming new attendees from beyond the Law Faculty, as well as visiting scholars and representatives from the Cambridge University Medical Law Society (CUMLS). The morning was marked by lively conversation, fresh perspectives…

This February, LML was pleased to host Professor Justyna Ożegalska-Trybalska, Deputy Director of the WIPO Joint Master’s Programme in Intellectual Property and New Technologies and Chair of Intellectual Property at Jagellonian University in Krakow, Poland. During her visit, Prof. Ożegalska-Trybalska explored the UK’s regulatory and legislative fram…

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…