Past Events
2011-2012 Seminar Series
Scholars affiliated to the Centre are encouraged to discuss, debate and explore contemporary legal and bioethical issues via the annual external seminar series organised within the Law School:
5 December 2012 - Dr Rebecca Bennett (Law School and Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, University of Manchester): Bioethical Controversy, Ethical Compromise and the Criminal Law
28 November 2012 - Dr Amel Alghrani (Law School, University of Manchester):
Bonfire of the Quangos: Lighting A Fire Under HFEA and HTA
7 November 2012 - Dr Sheelagh McGuinness (Law School, Centre for Health Law, Science and Policy, University of Birmingham): Mandatory or Meritorious? Establishing the Legal Duties of Researchers
9 November 2011 - Dr Suzanne Ost (Law School Lancaster University) and Professor Margaret Brazier (Centre for Social Ethics and Policy and Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, School of Law, University of Manchester): Politically Proper? Connections between Medicine, Law and Bioethics
23 November 2011 – Dr John Coggon (Centre for Social Ethics and Policy and Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, School of Law, University of Manchester): Public Health, Law and Ethics: From “Coherence” Problems to Policy Proposals
7 December 2011 - Dr Muireann Quigley (Centre for Social Ethics and Policy and Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, School of Law, University of Manchester): Property in Human Biomaterials: Separating Persons and Things?
22 February 2012 - Dr Sarah Devaney (Centre for Social Ethics and Policy and Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, School of Law, University of Manchester): Regulating Experts: Agency Regulation of Emerging Biotechnologies
7 March 2012 - Dr Lucy Frith, (Department of Health Services Research, University of Liverpool): What to do with frozen embryos?
Workshop on Public health, equity and interventions
March 2011
Organised by Stuart Nicholls, Kristin Voigt and Dr Garrath Williams at Lancaster University, with 33 attendees, sponsored by the Society for Applied Philosophy and the Institute of Medical Ethics.
Speakers were Dr Sonia Tucci (Liverpool), Professor Jennie Popay (Division of Health Research, Lancaster), Professor Soren Holm (Manchester University), Dr Kalle Grill (Uppsala and Keele Universities), Dr Pauline Emmett (University of Bristol), and Dr Maria Piacentini (Management School, Lancaster).
Workshop on Children and Health Care Ethics,
November 2009
Organised by Garrath Williams at Lancaster University, with 20 attendees. Speakers were Sarah Elliston (Glasgow), Professor Hazel Biggs (Southampton), Dr Garrath Williams (Lancaster), and Prof Anne Garden (School of Health and Medicine, Lancaster).
Exploring Health Care Law's Recognition of Autonomy and Rights
March 2009
Seminar at Lancaster University
Speakers were Prof Henriette Sinding Aasen (Faculty of Law, University of Bergen), Dr Jose Miola (Leicester), Prof Dave Archard and Dr Neil Manson (Lancaster), Drs Sara Fovargue and Suzanne Ost (Lancaster) and Prof Hazel Biggs (Southampton).
Legal and Ethical Issues Surrounding the Involvement of Children in Health Care Research
September 2007
13 speakers – funded by the Modern Law Review following an application by Professor Hazel Biggs and Dr Sara Fovargue.