Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences Lectures
by Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
March 21, 2025 9:32 pm
The Cambridge Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences (LML), led by Dr Kathleen Liddell (Director) and Dr Jeffrey Skopek (Deputy Director), advances research and teaching on legal and ethical challenges at the forefront of medicine and the life sciences. Rapid and prolific scientific advances, alongside changing attitudes towards health, medical care, family structures and related issues, pose some of the most difficult research questions of our era. These include questions about the adequacy of patents to incentivize medical innovation, the nature of informed consent, the allocation of liability for medical wrongs, the scope of privacy rights in electronic health records, the rationing of medical care, the regulation of emerging technologies and the implications of personalized medicine. In addressing these and many other challenges, LML looks beyond the boundaries of medical law as traditionally conceived. Our members specialise not only in medical law and bioethics, but also in areas such as competition law, family law, human rights, public law, information law, international law and intellectual property. In addition, many have training in disciplines other than law (including medicine, economics, history and philosophy) and relevant professional experience (including legal practice, private consultancy and civil service). This playlist contains lectures and other events held by the LML. For more information see the LML website: at http://www.lml.law.cam.ac.uk/
Recent Episodes
Repugnant transactions and taboo trades: The Baron de Lancey Lecture 2025
4 months agoMedicine and the Rule of Law: The Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture 2024
1 year agoAssisted Dying: Slippery Slopes and Unintended Consequences: The Baron de Lancey Lecture 2023
2 years agoRe-engineering the Regulation of Regenerative Medicine?: The 2022 Baron de Lancey Lecture
3 years agoLaw, Hormones, and Sport: a level playing field?: The Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture 2021
4 years agoShould parents have the final say on the medical treatment of their children?: The 2019 Baron de Lancey Lecture
6 years agoParenthood Disrupted(?) Dilemmas of Reproductive Technologies: The Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture 2018
7 years agoTo Die or not to Die: Assisted Dying in England and Wales - The current legal, moral and societal issues
8 years agoMontgomery: a dramatic change in the law on patient consent?: The Baron de Lancey Medical Law Lecture 2016
9 years agoVoluntary Euthanasia and Assisted Dying: The Position in The Netherlands: The Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture 2015
10 years ago