University of Liverpool - Medicine, Law, and Bioethics Unit at The Liverpool Law School

MLAB is nationally and internationally recognised for excellent research and teaching across a range of medical law and health law areas. Members draw on a range of legal and interdisciplinary perspectives, such as bioethics, common law analysis, feminist legal theory, comparative and international law and political philosophy to illuminate substantive areas of law.

Teaching and research are fully integrated at MLAB.  Members draw on their research expertise in teaching on the LL.M. programme and in supervising PhD students.

News

MLAB Annual Lecture 2008 will be given this year by Baroness Onora O’Neill, the distinguished moral philosopher and President of the British Academy.  The lecture entitled ‘Public Health and Justice’ in the Law School Moot Room at 5.30pm on October 29th 2008. For further details please click here

Events

Challenges to Public Health: Ethics, Law and Policy
Thursday 7th May 2009, 12 Midday - 2.00pm, Liverpool Law School (for further information click here)

Global Governance of HIV/ AIDS: Intellectual Property and Access to Essential Medicines:

Conference Organized by the Medicine, Law and Bioethics Unit (Liverpool, UK) and the United Nations University – Peace and Governance Programme, 8th October 2008 (for further information click here)