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An editorial article by the International Network for AMR Social Science (INAMRSS) features in the latest volume of the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation.INAMRSS is an open consortium of international academic centres focused on social science research and policy on antimicrobial resistance. Led by Professor Steven Hoffman (York University)…

On 5 December 2020, Dr Kathy Liddell (Director of LML) gave a presentation on the University’s asymptomatic COVID-19 screening programme, which was offered to 16,000 students.The seminar, organised and chaired by Dr Mark Lathrop (Director of the McGill Genome Centre), was part of a discussion group established to share experiences about public heal…

Jinal Dadiya (LML PhD Candidate) has been featured in Horizons, the University of Cambridge’s research magazine.The latest edition of Horizons shines a spotlight on reproductive research currently being undertaken at the University. Jinal provides a snapshot of the legal and regulatory issues raised by reproductive technologies such as IVF, gamete …

Dr Kathy Liddell (Director of LML) has been invited to participate in a CSaP Policy Leaders Fellowship meeting on human genome editing on 20 November 2020.The CSaP Policy Leaders Fellowship addresses the needs of the most senior policy makers, whether in Whitehall, Brussels, devolved administrations in the UK, or equivalent organisations, by provid…

LML are delighted to announce that Dr Stevie Martin’s PhD thesis, ‘Assisted Suicide and the European Convention on Human Rights’, is to be published by Routledge.This book will examine the human rights implication of the ban on assisted suicide in England and Wales. More specifically, it will consider whether the Suicide Act 1961 is compatible with…

The Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences is pleased to report that LML members Dr Stephanie Palmer and Dr Stevie Martin have secured a book contract with Cambridge University Press.Written in collaboration with Dr Kirsty Hughes, the book will address a range of topics within the remit of human rights law, including discussion of a number of m…

Mateo Aboy (LML Principal Research Associate) has co-authored a featured patent particle in Nature Biotechnology with Jacob Sherkow (Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law).The US Food and Drug Administration has been criticized for failing to expeditiously approve ground-breaking medical devices. Some commentators have sugge…

A special issue of the International Journal of Children’s Rights, edited by Brian Sloan and Claire Fenton-Glynn (LML Member), has been published. The issue is entitled ‘Article 5 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Families, Guidance and Evolving Capacities’. It contains papers presented at an international and interdisciplinary CRC Impl…

On Friday 21 August, contributors to the Collaborative Research Programme in Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL) convened for the second of two virtual retreats hosted by the University of Copenhagen. Progress updates were provided for the precision medicine, biologics, and synergy & policy solutions studies.Dr Kathy Liddell (Director of LML) and Pro…

LML seeks to appoint a highly motivated and independent Research Associate to work on a set of challenging legal and ethical questions raised by the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare.The postholder will pursue research projects in two related areas. The first is an existing area of LML research on how civil liability should be assigned w…

The Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences is pleased to announce that two members of our Management Committee are to be promoted in this year’s Senior Academic Promotions exercise. They will assume their new positions in October 2020.Dr Kathy Liddell, Founding Director of LML and Herschel Smith Senior Lecturer of Intellectual Property Law, wil…

On Monday 8 June, several members of LML attended the first of two virtual CeBIL retreats, hosted by programme leaders at the University of Copenhagen. The annual CeBIL retreats are an opportunity to convene with other CeBIL collaborators, provide progress updates on each of the six CeBIL studies, and receive valuable feedback. The first virtual re…

LML is pleased to announce that the Journal of Law and the Biosciences has published ‘COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps: A Stress Test for Privacy, the GDPR and Data Protection Regimes’ by Laura Bradford, Mateo Aboy and Kathy Liddell.Digital surveillance has played a key role in containing the COVID-19 outbreak in China, Singapore, Israel and South Kor…

LML is delighted to announce that the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law has published ‘The Effects of Myriad and Mayo on Molecular-Test Development in Europe: Interviews from the Frontline’, by Dr John Liddicoat, Dr Kathy Liddell, and Professor Mateo Aboy.The decisions of the US Supreme Court in Association for Molecular Pathol…

The world faces a crisis on a scale not seen for generations, and in just a few weeks, the lives of millions of people have changed dramatically. In addition to the physical health risks for those infected, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to widespread feelings of stress, anxiety and uncertainty across populations. Separation from loved ones, loss of…