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LML is delighted to announce our collaboration on an upcoming conference on "The Development of Abortion Rights in a Changing Europe", to be held in Cambridge in September 2018. The conference, organised by a team headed by second year Law student Helen Jennings, will explore what human rights law has to say on the issue of abortion in 2018, with c…

On Monday 5th March 2018, three LML members (Dr Kathy Liddell, Professor Mateo Aboy, and Dr John Liddicoat) participated in an international conference on bio-innovation law, hosted by the University of Copenhagen.The event marked the commencement of CeBIL, the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s Collaborative Research Programme in Biomedical Innovation Law;…

On Friday March 9th, the Centre forLaw, Medicine and Life Sciences hosted the 2018 Baron de Lancey Lecture, organised in collaboration with Cambridge Family Law, and kindly sponsored by the Ver Heyden de Lancey Fund. This year, Professor Glenn Cohen delivered his thought-provoking talk 'Parenthood Disrupted(?) Dilemmas of Reproductive Technologies'…

The Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences (LML) within the Faculty of Law has signed a ground-breaking collaboration agreement with the University of Copenhagen to address challenges in biomedical innovation law.The collaboration is generously supported by a £4m grant awarded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation to Professor Timo Minssen, Director o…

Dr Stephanie Palmer (LML Member) has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board for Behaviour Change by Design, a four-year research programme investigating "ways to 'nudge' people towards healthier behaviour". Dr Palmer will be contributing expertise in the area of Law and Public Health.More information about the programme, which launched on …

Following a conference hosted at the University of Hong Kong in April 2016, the Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences and Centre for Medical Ethics & Law (University of Hong Kong) have published a report on 'Precision Medicine: Legal and Ethical Challenges'.The aim of precision medicine is to revolutionise disease treatment and prevention by u…

Two members of the LML are scheduled to present at an upcoming conference on 'Legal Perspectives on Synthetic Biology and Gene Editing', hosted by the Centre for Information and Innovation Law at the University of Copenhagen.On November 20th, Dr Kathy Liddell (Director of the LML) will deliver a keynote speech on the topic of 'IP Policies for Large…

An article written by Abby Selden, a recent Law Tripos Student and current Trainee Solicitor at Clifford Chance, has been published in the European Human Rights Law Review.Selden's article titled 'Compulsory health checks, female genital mutilation and rights balancing at the European Court of Human Rights' was based upon her earlier dissertation, …

The LML is pleased to announce that the Centre is expanding the range of consulting and contract services it is able to provide. Complementary to our 'Evidence-based IP' research area (led by Dr Mateo Aboy and Dr Kathy Liddell), examples of new services include patent searches and landscapes, and empirical IP legal studies.The full range of consult…

LML member Colm McGrath has been invited to participate in a public debate at University College London (UCL) on Monday 16th October. He will be opposing the motion ‘THBT brain activity is the measure of human life’.More information about the public debates held by the UCL Debating Society can be found here.

The University of Cambridge has produced a short film, 'The Future of Medicine', documenting some of the research being undertaken at the university which is helping to guide and shape developments in this field. Dr. Kathy Liddell (Director of the LML) features in this production. She speaks about the importance of involving perspectives additional…

Dr Stephanie Palmer has written a blog post for the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL/AIDC) on  the question of whether women from Northern Ireland should have access to free National Health Service-funded abortions in England. This issue addressed in the Supreme Court decision of R (on the application of A and B) v Secretary of…

The LML is delighted to announce that Nature Biotechnology has accepted for publication a second article from an LML Research Group concerning the impacts of the US Supreme Court's decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v Myriad Genetics on patent practice.The article, co-authored by Prof Mateo Aboy, Dr Jonathon Liddicoat, Dr Kathy Liddell…

David Erdos, a member of LML and incoming Deputy Director of CIPIL, has been engaged in a variety of activities during 2016-17 which have been aimed at ensuring that all types of academic research are effectively safeguarded when the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force in May 2018.  Much of this work has focused on the go…

Over the last week, LML Member Dr Claire Fenton-Glynn has been quoted in a variety of media sources and conducted a radio interview on the case of Charlie Gard. Gard is an eleven month old infant born with a genetic disorder which leaves him unable to breathe unaided and with severe brain damage. The London hospital treating him have asked permissi…