Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
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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...
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A careful talk about how judges handle contested medical decisions.
Jonathan Montgomery's talk stays focused on the hard edge where medicine, family wishes, and the courts do not always line up. Using Charlie Gard as the central case, it shows how judges examine evidence, sort through facts, and decide when legal oversight is helpful rather than…
A careful lecture on the moral boundaries of markets, and why some taboos deserve a harder look.
This lecture takes a hard, unsentimental look at where markets should end and law should intervene, using plasma and organ trade to test the line between exchange and restraint.
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How research culture changes in practice.
Conversations from inside the IT channel.
Professor Sir Jonathan Montgomery delivers the Baron de Lancy Lecture, exploring the rule of law's application to medicine, critiquing judicial overreach in cases like Tavistock and Charlie Gard, and examining informed consent and assisted dying through legal discipline.
Professor Kimberley Kravick delivers an academic lecture examining the ethical and legal dilemmas of 'repugnant transactions'—exchanges considered acceptable when free but corrupted by money.