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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…

Many Covid-19 intensive care guidelines fail to protect patients’ legal rights, according to an LML research team. An explanation of their view has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Medical Ethics.   ‘Who Gets the Ventilator? Important Legal Rights in the Covid-19 Pandemic’, was co-authored by Dr Kathy Liddell (LML Director), Dr Jeffr…

Professor Mateo Aboy (LML Senior Research Scholar) has co-authored a paper titled ‘Regulatory responses to medical machine learning’ with several of LML’s CeBIL Collaborators.Medical machine learning is a sub-type of medical artificial intelligence, which uses machine learning algorithms to identify medical patterns and guide clinical decisions. It…

A blog post by an LML COVID-19 research team has been published in the British Medical Journal’s Journal of Medical Ethics.‘Deciding who gets the ventilator: Will some lives be lost unlawfully?’ discusses the interplay between patients’ legal rights and medical resource allocation in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, it focuses on the …

Dr Stevie Martin (LML Member) has written a blog post for EJIL:Talk (the blog of the European Journal of International Law) about derogation from the ECHR in light of COVID-19.A Domestic Court’s Attempt to Derogate from the ECHR on behalf of the United Kingdom: the implications of Covid-19 on judicial decision-making in the United Kingdom discusses…

Dr Kathy Liddell (LML Director) has been quoted in an article by the NY Times about the UK’s approach towards medical rationing in relation to Coronavirus.The UK has an established history of offering public guidance on medical treatment at the of  life, including some high level guidance for pandemics. Guidance from the Department of Health and So…

In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, Parliament needs quick access to researchers who can provide expert insights relating to both Coronavirus and its wider consequences.To speed up the process of Parliament accessing relevant research expertise, a COVID-19 Outbreak Expert Database has been created. LML has joined this database, and so may be call…

In light of the present public health situation, the Cambridge Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences has created a publicly accessibly Google Drive document:COVID-19: Literature on the Legal and Ethical Issues Facing Front-line Healthcare ProfessionalsThis compilation is intended to support transparent and public discussion, particularly durin…