Medical Law and Ethics Discussion Group
About the Group
The Medical Law and Ethics Discussion Group We will be hosting one panel event per term and also several paper presentations in Hilary and Trinity, so please join our mailing list and keep checking back here and also our other webpage on the HeLEX site for more details
The Medical Law and Ethics Discussion Group met for the first time on Friday 16 November 2012, at 5pm in the Law Faculty SCR 2012. This was a panel event discussing the Nicklinson Case.
Our speakers for this event are: Mr Charles Foster, Professor Jonathan Herring, and Professor David Albert Jones. For Hilary term our panel event will be a discussion of current issues in Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing. This will be held on Friday February 22nd 2013, starting at 2pm.Convenors: Andelka Phillips, Jesse Wall, Kate Greasley
Senior members: Imogen Goold, Jonathan Herring
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Previous Group Events
May 2013
Friday 24 May 2013
- 'Wrongful Life Claims and Section 1A of the Congenital Disabilities Act: Searching for Coherence'
- Speaker: Dr Noam Gur, Postdoctoral Fellow in Law at Lincoln College, Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty Law Faculty SCR at 17:30
Wednesday 8 May
- Professor Trudo Lemmens- Commercialization of Gametes: Reflections on the Canadian Supreme Court Reference Re Assisted Human Reproduction Act.
- Speaker: Professor Trudo Lemmens, From the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law, where he holds the Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy. He is currently an academic visitor at the HeLEX Centre and a Plumer visiting fellow at St. Anne's College.
Oxford Law Faculty Law Faculty Seminar Room F at 12:00
February 2013
Friday 22 February
- Panel event on Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing
- Speaker: Professor Hagan Bayley, Stuart Hogarth, and Teresa Finlay
Oxford Law Faculty Law Faculty SCR at 14:00
November 2012
Friday 16 November 2012
- Panel Discussion of the Nicklinson Case. No Exit - did the English Legal System Fail Tony Nicklinson?
- Speaker: Mr Charles Foster, Professor Jonathan Herring and Professor David Albert Jones
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 17:00
