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Des Voeux Chambers Oxford-HKU Visiting Fellowship Lecture: When Judges Must Play Moral Philosopher

About DVC fellowship: Since September 2015, Des Voeux Chambers has endowed and facilitated the setting up of a fellowship scheme between the University of Oxford and HKU. This enables an academic member of the Oxford Faculty of Law to spend a month in Hong Kong as a visiting fellow to the HKU Faculty of Law, so as to enhance academic exchanges between the two institutions. Abstract:For the most part, judges are called upon to interpret and apply the law, whether it be past decisions or...

2022年 4月 20日

Eastern and Western Perspectives on Surrogacy

With the advances in artificial reproductive techniques, and an increasingly globalised world, surrogacy has gone from a niche practice to a global market, raising questions of parenthood, conflict of laws, and the commercialisation of the birth process. While there have been comparative studies undertaken concerning approaches to surrogacy from Europe and “Western” jurisdictions, there is gap in the literature with regard to the approach international surrogacy in Asia (and indeed Africa). As...

2022年 4月 20日

Precision Medicine: Legal and Ethical Challenges

Conference report (Aug, 2017): Click here Speaker(s): Don Chalmers (University of Tasmania) Tracy Evans Chan (National University of Singapore) Glenn Cohen (Harvard Law School) Henry Greely (Stanford Law School) Alison Hall (PHG Foundation) Stuart Hogarth (King’s College London) Chih-Hsing Ho (Academia Sinica) Yann Joly (McGill University) Terry Kaan (University of Hong Kong) Kazuto Kato (Osaka University) Ock-Joo Kim (Seoul National University) Bartha Knoppers (McGill University) Kathy...

2022年 4月 19日

Asia Launch cum Seminar of the Report Recommendations of the Commission on a Global Health Risk Framework for the Future

Speakers: Victor J DZAU, Chair, International Oversight Group of the Commission; President, U.S. National Academy of Medicine Lawrence GOSTIN, Commissioner; University Professor & Faculty Director, O’Neill Institute for National Global Health Law, Georgetown University; Director, WHO Collaborating Centre on Public Health Law & Human Rights Gabriel M LEUNG, Commissioner; Co-Director of WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control; Dean, Li Ka Shing Faculty of...

2022年 4月 19日

Global Health with Justice: Toward a Framework Convention on Global Health

Abstract:Is the right to health a basic human right?  Professor Lawrence Gostin makes the case for the right to health in the context of global health with justice.  He reflects on his advocacy for the cause through the efforts of him and his colleagues in promoting the Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) as a basis for a ‘global health treaty based health treaty based on the right to health and aimed and closing national and global health inequities. It would provide standards to...

2022年 4月 19日

WYNG-Hatton Lecture 2015 : “The Ethics of Reproductive Technologies: Some Tools for Thinking”

Abstract:It is often said that science makes progress far faster than does ethical thought. The result, we are told, is that efforts to regulate technology always struggle to catch up with developments in laboratories and clinics. New reproductive technologies such as the introduction of therapies to combat disorders of the mitochondrial genome and novel forms of genome editing seem to exemplify this pattern. But what, precisely, are the ethical challenges posed by these technologies, and what...

2022年 4月 19日
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