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Matthew Leitch, a final year Cambridge undergraduate student, has been awarded the  'Hempsons Prize for Law, Medicine, and Life Sciences.' The award recognises the student who achieves the best first-class result in either LLM Paper 1 (Law, Medicine and Life Sciences) or the Tripos Law Seminar 50E (Law and Ethics of Medicine). The Hempsons Prize is…

LML’s Professor Kathy Liddell is actively involved in the Governance of Stem Cell-Based Embryo Models (G-SCBEM) Working Group, a pioneering project initiated by the University of Cambridge. This ground-breaking initiative aims to develop the first governance framework for research involving stem cell-based human embryo models in the UK.Led by Cambr…

Qualitative and quantitative empirical methods are playing an increasingly important role in intellectual property law research. Hence it became the focus of collected edition, including a chapter by  L C Druedahl and LML members Prof. Mateo Aboy and Prof. Timo Minnsen. Empirical approaches, they argue, allow an understanding of how patent and trad…

Dr Stevie Martin, a member of LML, has published a case note on 'The right to life at the end of life' in Medical Law International. It delves into the complexities of legalizing assisted dying and its compatibility with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).The case note focusses on the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Mo…

From 14-15 June 2023, a group of LML members attended Sustainable Health Innovation, Grand Challenges & the Law, a symposium hosted by the University of Copenhagen. This event marked the conclusion of the Collaborative Innovation Program In Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL). International experts discussed the legal, ethical, social, and policy imp…

LML is pleased to announce the publication of "The Frontiers of Medical Negligence and Diagnosis: An Interview-Based Analysis", co-authored by LML’s Professor Kathy Liddell and Associate-Professor Jeffrey Skopek with Isabelle Le Gallez and Dr Zoë Fritz.The article delves into the critical issue of medical diagnosis errors and the legal implications…

Dr Stevie Martin, a member of LML, recently presented evidence on human rights and assisted dying to the Parliamentary Joint Select Committee on Human Rights. The Joint Select Committee on Human Rights is a body comprising twelve members from both the House of Commons and the House of Lords. It examines human rights within the United Kingdom and th…

Rebecca Brown, a PhD candidate and member of the Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences (LML), has been awarded the 2023 Australian Yearbook of International Law (AYBIL) and Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL) Student Paper Prize for her paper "Quarantine Island: Australia's Health Policy and its Construction of Int…

Registration is now open for the CeBIL Annual Symposium 2023 - Intellectual Property & Biologics: Policy Challenges and Responses.Biologics include some of the most innovative and expensive drugs today. They also raise some of the more complex intellectual property (IP) strategies. Patents provide exclusivity in national markets for the molecules, …

The Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) hosted its Annual Spring Conference on March 17, 2023, with the theme "Intellectual Property Rights as Allied Rights: Bill Cornish and the Making of Today’s Intellectual Property System" and LML’s Professor Kathy Liddell gave a talk entitled ‘The IP Family: Are Pharmaceutical Regulato…

On 16th March 2023, the Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences hosted the annual Baron de Lancey public lecture. This year’s speaker was Professor Emily Jackson, a Professor of Law at the London School of Economics. Professor Jackson delivered a talk entitled ‘Assisted Dying: Slippery Slopes and Unintended Consequences’. Professor Jackson discu…

The Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences (LML) is sad to say goodbye to Jacquelyn Veraldi who has been working as a Research Associate for LML in partnership with the Centre for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL). Jacquelyn has contributed to research relating to competition law and the pharmaceutical sector. She was the re…

Ms Georgia Michell has joined the Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences (LML) as a Project Coordinator to assist the Director and Deputy Director of LML, Professor Kathy Liddell and Dr Jeffrey Skopek, in achieving the objectives of the Centre. Georgia has a Bachelor of Social Science and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Cape Town and …

On 1-2 December 2022, a kick-off meeting for the SSHRC Partnership Grant took place in Banff, Canada. This new multidisciplinary global governance partnership has come together to address the development of drug-resistant microbes that threaten health, food systems, and the environment. The workshop brought together the main partners of the grant t…

The Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences is delighted to welcome Prof. Timo Minssen (University of Copenhagen) as an Affiliate Member. The position of Affiliate covers researchers beyond the Faculty of Law who represent, participate in, or run, specific projects on behalf of LML.Prof. Minssen is Professor of Law at the University of Copenhage…