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To celebrate the launch of our new LLM in Medical Law and Ethics, Durham CELLS is hosting a two-day international interdisciplinary conference on “Death and Dying in the 21st Century”. This exciting conference brings together established researchers from across the world and postgraduate research students to highlight contemporary issues in this extremely topical area.
18 April 2024 - 19 April 2024
Durham University
Gender and Law at Durham (GLAD) and Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences (CELLS) invite you to their joint event with Professor Hrefna Friðriksdóttir.
03 May 2024
Online - zoom
Join us for this seminar - 'Weight discrimination in healthcare settings: Reflections on training provision, stigma and legal protection' in which Dr Rachel Colls and Dr Kimberly Jamie present their working paper.
18 November 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
PCL050 (Palatine Centre)/Online via Zoom
Personhood: The New Civil War over Reproduction What’s next for the battle over abortion? Mary Ziegler argues that simply undoing Roe v. Wade has never been the endpoint for the antiabortion movement. Since the 1960s, the larger goal has been to secure recognition of fetuses and embryos as persons under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, a step that the modern antiabortion movement argues would make liberal abortion laws unconstitutional.
02 December 2024
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
This event is taking place online via Zoom.
Please note this event has been postponed. No further updates are currently available.
29 January 2025
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Hogan Lovells
‘Reimagining the Court of Protection: Participation, Mediation and Best Interests Disputes’.
12 March 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Online via Teams
Despite the lack of legal recognition for same-sex relationships or marriage in China, lesbian motherhood has emerged as a significant socio-legal issue. In order to fulfill their desire to have children and create a family, some Chinese lesbian couples have adopted a 'shared motherhood model.'
28 April 2025
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
21 May 2025
This event takes place at CG60 in the Chemistry Building, Durham University.
Atina Krajewska and Jean McHale, Birmingham Law School reflect on their new edited collection, Reimagining Health Law (November 2025, Edward Elgar). This groundbreaking book explores the development of health law as a field of academic study in the UK. Drawing on the diverse expertise of leading scholars in the field, it examines health law’s disciplinary boundaries, research methods and interrelationships with other academic disciplines.
08 October 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
In collaboration with the Institute for Medical Humanities (IMH), the Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences (CELLS) will host a screening of Vera Drake in the Palatine Centre.
03 December 2025
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Palatine Centre, Durham Law School
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