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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…

On May 29th and 30th 2017, a seminar for university professors and law lecturers took place at the Academy of European Law in Trier, Germany. The general topic of the seminar was ‘Current Reflections on EU Anti-Discrimination Law’, and Dr Scherpe delivered a lecture on ‘The Legal Status of Transsexual and Transgender Persons’, based on his book of …

On June 13th, Dr Liddicoat presented at the conference Intellectual Property, Ethics and the Market in the Era of Personalised Medicine, held at St Anne’s College, Oxford. His talk was titled ‘The Phantom Menace of Gene Patents Arises?’, and the abstract can be found below. Dr Liddicoat and colleagues are now in the midst of translating the talk in…

LML is happy to announce that Colm McGrath has been appointed to a Lectureship at the King's College London Dickson Poon School of Law. He will take up the position in January 2018.  At KCL, he looks forward to contributing to the School’s teaching in tort law and medical law and to continuing his research into the modern, historical and comparativ…

Kathy Liddell, Director of the LML, was invited to participate in the fourteenth Policy Leaders Fellowship Roundtable organised by the Centre for Science and Policy which will take place at Trinity College Cambridge on 12 May 2017, chaired by Lord Wilson of Dinton, former UK Cabinet Secretary.The subject for discussion on 12 May was “advances in ge…

Dr Kathy Liddell has been appointed to the Expert Board for Copenhagen Economics’ successful proposal to the European Commission (DG GROW) to prepare its “Study on the economic impact of SPCs, Pharmaceutical incentives and rewards in Europe”.The overall objective of the project is to shed light on the effects of IP-related incentives (in particular…