6 Oct 2016
Full funding for PhD student commencing 2016/17
The Faculty of Law is offering a studentship for a new PhD student commencing full-time doctoral research in 2017/18. The studentship is available to Home UK/EU and overseas students, and it is renewable for a further 2 years subject to satisfactory academic progress. The value of the studentship will be the full annual University Composition Fee t…
18 Aug 2016
Dr Okeoghene Odudu speaks about the interaction between public procurement and competition rules in relation to potential conflicts of interest in NHS commissioning
Dr Okeoghene Odudu speaks at 'Taking stock of NHS governance after the 2013 reforms: public procurement, competition and conflict'. The event, hosted by the University of Bristol Law School on 23 June 2016, brought together CCGs, NHS trusts, legal practitioners and academics, so that they could collectively take stock of this aspect of the new NHS …
8 Jul 2016
LML welcomes Professor Bartha Knoppers
The LML is delighted to be hosting Professor Bartha Knoppers, Director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy at McGill University, between 4 and 7 July.In addition to meeting with LML and PHG Foundation members, Professor Knoppers will be presenting a seminar at Hughes Hall entitled "The measured man? Is the time right for a move from genetic testin…
8 Jul 2016
Dr Scherpe cited by Lord Wilson in Supreme Court oral proceedings
Following on from the 2013 International Conference on the Legal Status of Transsexual and Transgender Persons, and the recent publication by Intersentia of The Legal Status of Transsexual and Transgender Persons(edited by Dr Jens Scherpe) – which was referred to by Lord Wilson in recent proceedings before the UK Supreme Court [see linked footage …
Dr Terry Kaan, Co-Director of Hong Kong University's Centre for Medical Ethics and Law (CMEL), and Assistant Professor Ms Daisy Cheung will be visiting the University of Cambridge between 16 - 21 June. Dr Kaan and Ms Cheung will be meeting with various members of the LML and the PHG Foundation during their visit.CMEL and LML have a close collaborat…
19 May 2016
Justice Green delivers judgment in tobacco regulation case; finds against tobacco companies
Justice Green has today (19 May 2016) delivered judgment in British American Tobacco & others v Department of Health rejecting applications by the tobacco companies for judicial review. The judgment and a summary thereof are available here and here.
19 May 2016
An Insight into the Patentability and Enforcement of Second Medical Use Patents in the EPO and English Courts Seminar
An Insight into the Patentability and Enforcement of Second Medical Use Patents in the EPO and English Courts SeminarMarks & Clerk LLP, 62-68 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 1LA2 June 2016 2pm-5pmJonathon Stafford, Marks & Clerk LLP and Trevor Crosse, Marks & Clerk Solicitors, will be presenting a talk on the patentability and enforcement of second use …
10 May 2016
Dr Skopek to present "Privacy in Numbers? Biological Bodies of Data, Big Data's Epistemology, and the Legal and Ethical Status of Health Inferences”
Dr Jeffery Skopek will deliver a presentation on "Privacy in Numbers? Biological Bodies of Data, Big Data's Epistemology, and the Legal and Ethical Status of Health Inferences" at a workshop on the Legal Dimensions of Big Data in the Health and Life Sciences, at the University of Copenhagen on 20 May 2016.
10 May 2016
Dr Fenton-Glynn to present "Revisiting parenthood in the 21st Century" at Culture, Dispute Resolution and the Modernised Family Conference 6-8 July 2016
Dr Claire Fenton-Glynn will be delivering a speech entitled "Revisiting parenthood in the 21st Century" at the Culture, Dispute Resolution and the Modernised Family Conference hosted by the International Centre for Family Law, Policy and Practice between 6-8 July in London.
9 May 2016
Dr Skopek publishes chapter in "Blinding as a Solution to Bias: Strengthening Biomedical Science, Forensic Science, and Law"
Dr Jeffrey Skopek has published "A Theory of Anonymity" in Blinding as a Solution to Bias: Strengthening Biomedical Science, Forensic Science, and Law (Christopher Robertson and Aaron Kesselheim, eds., Elsevier 2016). Chapter abstract:Anonymity is at work across our law in ways that have gone unrecognized. In domains ranging from contract and copyr…
22 Apr 2016
LML Co-Hosts International Conference on Precision Medicine
On 7 and 8 April 2016, LML and the Centre for Medical Ethics & Law (The University of Hong Kong) held an international conference in Hong Kong on the legal and ethical challenges facing the realisation of precision medicine.The aim of precision medicine is to revolutionise disease treatment and prevention by utilising personal variation in factors …
28 Jan 2016
LML and collaborators at The University of Hong Kong to convene international conference on "Precision Medicine: Legal and Ethical Challenges"
The Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences jointly withThe Centre for Medical Ethics & Law, The University of Hong Kong,to hold international conference onPrecision Medicine: Legal and Ethical Challenges7-8 April 2016University of Hong Kong Precision medicine promises to revolutionize disease treatment and prevention by capitalizing on personal…
4 Dec 2015
Dr Jens Scherpe publishes "The Legal Status of Transsexual and Transgender Persons"
The need to allow a change of legal sex/gender in certain cases is no longer disputed in most jurisdictions, and for European countries, there is no question as to whether such a change should be allowed after the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Goodwin v. United Kingdom (Application no. 28957/95). The controversy has therefore s…
23 Nov 2015
Launch of HMS Cambridge
Health, Medicine & Society (HMS) Cambridge HMS Cambridge is a platform that facilitates cooperation, awareness and collaboration between researchers within Cambridge that are interested in cross-cutting 'human' dimensions of health, medicine and society. As well as offering a searchable directory of Cambridge researchers interested in this field, H…
13 Nov 2015
LML members receive second Philomathia Forum Award
A second Philomathia Forum Award has been received by LML members. With the support of this second award, Drs Matt Dyson and Kathy Liddell, together with Mr Kourosh Saeb-Parsy, a clinical consultant in organ transplantation, will organize a workshop on the legal issues surrounding the transplantation of sub-optimal organs.Sub-optimal organs are use…
