News of 2020-2022 (click to expand or close the news)
Seminar on Current Challenges in Medical Law
Medical Law Göttingen in cooperation with the European Association of Health Law is
pleased to announce a seminar for young scholars and PhD students within the field
of health law in Europe. The goal of this seminar is to foster cooperation between
individual researchers, research groups, and research institutes. We hope that you will
come to Göttingen, show us what are you working on, meet interesting colleagues and
establish new contacts!
Topic: Current Challenges in Medical Law
Date: 3-4 May 2023
Venue: Göttingen, Germany
Language: English
For more details, please, click here.
Date: 19.12.2022
New Interest Group established
The EAHL has establied new Interest Group (IG) - EAHL Young Scholars Interest Group.
The aim of this group is to support the work of the EAHL as well as to develop and organize
young scholars in the field of health law, medical law, pharmaceutical, biolaw and related
disciplines. The group's vision is to act as a support mechanism for the Association to connect with young researchers (those who are in the early stage career after obtaining their Ph.D. as well as those undertaking their Ph.D. studies).
Interim Chair of the IG is Mirko Đuković and the interim Co-Chair is Sofia Palmieri.
24.11,2022
Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management - Conference announcement and Call for abstracts
Precision Medicine Conference. Ethical and Legal Issues
Venue: National School of Public Health (ENSP), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Salao Nobre, Lisbon, Portugal
Date: 24 March 2023, 9.00 – 17.00
Language: English
Hybrid conference. The ENSP2023 will be a hybrid conference that will run fully in-person and fully virtually.
For more details, click here.
03.11.2022
ELSA Law School's a week-long event
ELSA (European Law Student's Association) is the world's largest organization of law students with over 40,000 members. One of its main goals is to enrich legal education through various activities, including the organization of law schools.
An ELSA Law School is a week-long event that offers an academically fascinating program designed to provide practical knowledge in various areas of law.
This year, for the first time ever, ELSA Innsbruck will organize the Winter ELSA Law School in cooperation with ELSA Salzburg on the topic of "Legal Aspects and Consequences of Doping". We will make it our obligation to organize an academic program on relevant legal principles and specific legal issues. You are also given the opportunity to get to know the cities with their historical treasures and the surrounding nature including the breathtaking mountains.
The WELS will start on the 11 of February in Salzburg and end on the 19 of February 2023. The participation for our law schools is open to students from 43 European countries and our number is limited to 25 students.
You can register with this link: https://lawschools.elsa.
We would be very happy to welcome you to our Winter ELSA Law School.
25.10.2022
EAHL announces the second call to host the 9th Conference and the second call for Ukraine Scholarship
EAHL announces the second calls to host the next conference and for Ukraine scholarship.
For more details, please, click the links below:
- Conference: link one, link two
- About the scholarship
24.10.2022
EAHL Conference in Ghent
After long COVID-19 restrictions, we are happy to announce successful conference held in Ghent!
At the closing ceremony of the 8th EAHL conference two awards were announced:
- Best abstract for the PhD seminar: Danaja Fabcic Povse, "Are covid certificates a proportionate measure to restrict freedom of movement during the omicron wave?"
- Best poster: Noémi Dubruel and Emmanuelle Rial-Sebbag, "Legal challenges raised by in silico clinical trials: between optimizing access to treatments and safety requirements"
21.04.2022, updated 23.04.2022
EAHL to support online participation of the members from Ukraine
In order to support our colleagues from Ukraine, we have decided to create a live stream from the Conference, so that our Ukrainian colleagues who cannot join us in Ghent, still can follow the high lights of the conference: the opening ceremony and the keynote speeches.
19.04.2022
EAHL adopts statement with regard to the situation in Ukraine.
To read the statement, please, click here:
02.03.2022
Scholarships awarded!
In the beginning of January 2022, the EAHL announced funding for PhD students in order to attend the 8th EAHL Conference in Ghent in 2022. The applications were reviewed by a committee consisting of Prof. Tom Goffin, Prof. Steven Lierman and Dr. Verena Stühlinger. Ten applicants were awarded as scholarship. The three best abstracts were.
Noemi Conditi : Evaluation of the necessity-based model and consent-based model for the processing of biosamples and health data in clinical biobanks
Teodora Lalova: Investigating challenges related to data protection in clinical research during the COVID-19 pandemic: results from a mixed-methods empirical study
Tugce Schmitt : What does it take to create a European Health Data Space? Production, use and re-use of Electronic Health Records data
The following were also awarded scholarship (in alphabetic order):
Edouard Habib - The Evolution of the Right to Health in a Context of Innovation:
The necessary emergence of a right of access to medical innovations
Giulia Bosi – Population mental health: a Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law perspective
Karolina Harasimowicz - Medical Liability and Compensation in Poland vis-avis COVID-19 Pandemic
Karolina Wierzbicka - Financial penalties of the Patients’ Rights Ombudsman for infringement of collective patients’ rights in Poland
Mariya Sharkova - Liability for Healthcare-Associated Infections: between public health and patient safety
Mirko Dukovic - Regulatory Avenues for 3D Bioprinting of Human Tissues
Noemi Conditi - Evaluation of the necessity-based model and consent-based model for the
processing of biosamples and health data in clinical biobanks
Noémie Dubruel - Legal and ethical issues of using digital and data science methods in the development of health products
27.02.2022
EAHL Announcement - scholarships for PhD students!
Dear EAHL members,
We are happy to share the information about scholarships for PhD students.
To dead more, please, click here.
To download Presidential letter with the information about next conference, please, click here.
21.01.2022
The EAHL PhD seminar gathered more than 20 young scholar over two days.
Thanks to all participants for sharing their ideas, and it seems like a bright future for European Health Law.
More information about the seminar (including abstracts) will be a part of the next newsletter.
10.12.2020
International conference Responses to COVID crisis in Central and Eastern European Countries – New Frontiers of Health Law
International conference Responses to COVID crisis in Central and Eastern European Countries – New Frontiers of Health Law, organized by the Institute of Social Sciences – Centre for Legal Research, in partnership with Erasmus University in Rotterdam – Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, University in Maribor – Faculty of Law and Association of Lawyers for Medical and Health Law of Serbia (SUPRAM) to be held on March 18th and 19th, 2021.
Conference will be organised as a review of the first year of different measures introduced as the response to crisis caused by COVID-19 pandemic in European states, with the special emphasize on (non)efficacy of measures and activities undertaken by the Eastern and Central European States to suppress pandemic. Participants are invited to submit presentations/papers within the following thematic areas: 1) Responses of governments and health systems to (un)expected crisis; 2) COVID 19 and Emergency measures; 3) Prioritization in medicine and vaccination allocation in times of pandemics; 4) Right to health vs/ or in line with other human rights; 5) Position of vulnerable groups in COVID crisis; 6) Human rights in health crisis; 7) Public health challenges (measures’ effectiveness), public reaction and the role of the media; and, 8) International perspectives of public health actions.
Deadline for submission of 200-300 words abstracts in English is January 4th, 2020. Abstracts should be sent to the following email addresses: msjenicic@idn.org.rs and mmilenkovic@idn.org.rs
To download the invitation letter with more detailed information click here.
To download Instructions for authors, please, click here.
To download the example click here.
05.12.2020
The new blog post for Global Health Law Groningen (GHLG) by Dean M. Harris, J.D on the topic “Effects of the 2020 U.S. Elections on Health Care and Global Public Health.”
To read the post, please, click here https://www.rug.nl/rechten/onderzoek/expertisecentra/ghlg/blog/effects-…
16.11.2020
New books from Hart Publishing
To read about books, its authors and discount price, please, click here https://eahl.eu/recent-publications
06.11.2020
Call for Papers and Registration!
The Irish Association of Law Teachers @law_IALT and Northern/Ireland Health Law and Ethics Network @HealthLawEthics are delighted to call a special joint online meeting on #COVID19 and legal responses on the island of #Ireland. The meeting is scheduled to take place on 11 Dec 2020.
Submit paper proposals via: https://forms.office.com/
Deadline for proposals: 16 Nov 2020.
Register here: https://forms.office.
22.10.2020
Job opportunity: 2-year post-doctoral research position in law
Dear colleagues,
The research centre, UMR 7318 International, Comparative and European Laws (DICE- CERIC, Aix-en-Provence, FRANCE) is looking for a postdoctoral researcher in law for 24 months from 1st April 2021 to work on the research Project I-BioLex “Fragmentation and defragmentation of law on biomedical innovations”, funded by the French National Research Agency.
This position is open to current post-graduate researchers (with a completed PhD) in Social and Human Sciences, preferably in Law, Political Sciences, or Science and Technology Studies, with strong knowledge in law/regulation. It is necessary to be fluent in English (written, read, and spoken).
See here for the particulars of the post and to apply: https://dice.univ-amu.fr/fr/
Closing date: 30 November 2020
The full application shall be sent by email to Aurélie Mahalatchimy (aurelie.mahalatchimy@univ-
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss the post and do not hesitate to spread the offer in your networks.
Best Wishes,
Aurélie Mahalatchimy (PI: I-BioLex)
CNRS, Permanent Researcher, UMR 7318 DICE International, Comparative and European Laws, CERIC- Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence, FRANCE
(aurelie.mahalatchimy@univ-
10.10.2020
The EAHL Interest Group on Supranational Biolaw
The EAHL Interest Group on Supranational Biolaw aims to promote European health law, especially in its European-level dimension. ‘Supranational biolaw’ is understood as comprising the law of the European Union, the Council of Europe and the European Patent Organisation, regarding the law and the various legal issues arising from technological advances related to medicine and biotechnology.
While Supranational Biolaw in all its dimensions is often not understood as valuable in and of itself, it underpins or is inflected within national law, and is now so developed that it can no longer be ignored.
Through research, training and networking activities, the types of activities that correspond to the activities of EAHL, the EAHL Interest Group on Supranational Biolaw will help to effectively mobilise its Members to address demands from several groups within society, including legislators and regulators, scientists (researchers and clinicians), and patients regarding Supranational Biolaw. The Interest Group will also help to strengthen the position of academics within national level systems and political contexts that threaten their autonomy and role as facilitators of freedom of discussion.
The EAHL Interest Group on Supranational Biolaw is co-chaired by Aurélie Mahalatchimy (UMR 7318 DICE CERIC, CNRS, Aix Marseille University, Toulon University, Pau & Pays de l’Adour University, France) and Mark Flear (Queen’s University Belfast, UK).
Current members include: Dobrochna Bach-Golecka (Poland); Joaquin Cayon (Spain); Brenda Daly (Ireland); Anne-Marie Duguet (France); Mary Guy (United Kingdom); Kaisa-Maria Kimmel (Finland); Andrea Mulligan (Ireland); Stefania Negri (Italy); Emmanuelle Rial-Sebbag (France); Mike Schwebag (Luxembourg). Further members from across Europe are in the process of joining. We will provide an update on the membership via the website in due course.
24.09.2020
Announcement - EAHL PhD seminar!
Dear PhD-students and young researchers in health law!
Against the background of the current pandemic with limited possibilities to travel and cancelled conferences across Europe, it is even more important to stimulate and maintain interaction between researchers. Thus, the board of the EAHL is pleased to announce that it will host a seminar for PhD-students writing a doctoral thesis in health law. The aim of this seminar is to promote knowledge-exchange and research experiences between young researchers in the field of health law in Europe and to support young researchers’ networks in this field.
(2) include name and affiliation.
(3) It should also be indicated if you are interested in travelling to Brussels in case of a physical seminar and whether
(4) you apply for a scholarship.
EAHL cooperation with the EPRL established!
EAHL is happy to announce a new cooperation established with the EPLR (European Pharmaceutical Law Review) journal.
The European Pharmaceutical Law Review (EPLR) identifies and analyses important legal and regulatory developments on the national, EU and international level. It is primarily concerned with pharmaceutical law, medicines law and issues related to the work of the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
Furthermore, it provides an overview of and critically examines judgments and directives that shape the interpretation and application of EU pharmaceutical law and policy, including those by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), European Courts, international courts and tribunals such as the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body, and higher national courts.
EAHL members will get 10% discount upon subscription to the journal.
For more details, please click here.
The EPRL journal is seeking contributions for a Special Issue (click to learn more).
21.08.2020 (update: 07.09.2020)
New EAHL official email has been launched!
The EAHL is happy to announce the launch of the new official EAHL email address.
Now you can contact us at administration@eahl.eu
12.08.2020
Call for NCPs
EAHL announces open call for candidates to become the National Contact Point.
Please, find the requirements below:
1.To read about requirements for NCPs, please, visit https://eahl.eu/national-contacts
2. Please, note that upon request from the EAHL Board all NCPs can be asked to provide national reports on proposed topics such as "Legal measures taken with regard to corona virus outbreak" etc. To read recent reports, please, visit https://eahl.eu/newsletters;
3. To become an NCP person should be active member of the association. If you are not a member, you should apply for membership.
4. The list of countries where we have no NCPs and looking for candidates:
• Albania
• Andorra
• Armenia
• Croatia
• Finland
• Georgia
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Republic of Moldova
• Monaco
• Montenegro
• Netherlands
• North Macedonia
• Portugal
• Romania
• San Marino
• Switzerland
Please, kindly note that currently we are looking for NCPs for countries of Europe (members of the Council of Europe).
5. Since EAHL Newsletter has acquired the ISSN we work on establishing requirements for publications. The requirements (Guidelines) will be published by September 2020.
If you wish to become the NCP, please, send us your short CV and Letter of Motivation.
Contact email: eurohealthlaw#gmail.com
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updated date: 06.12.2020
PhD seminar - announcement.
Dear EAHL members,
It is planned to organize a physical seminar for PhD students writing a thesis in health law on 9-10 December 2020 in Brussels.
In order to support young researchers some financial grants for their participation will be made.
In case physical meeting will be impossible considering the outbreak situation, we will organize online event.
More details to be provided by September 2020 and a call for abstracts will be announced.
So, follow us on our Twitter and LinkedIn accounts for the updates.
29.06.2020
Dates of the next EAHL conference have been announced!
The dates of the next EAHL conference have been announced today. So, the 8th EAHL conference in Ghent, Belgium will be organised on 22-24 September 2021.
The conference official website is planned to be open in September.
More details on conference scientific committee, topic, events etc. will be published soon.
27.06.2020
EAHL extends its partnership channels!
The cooperation agreement has been signed between the EAHL and 8th World Sustainability Forum (WSF2020). Thus, the EAHL became partnering society to the WSF2020.
8th World Sustainability Forum (WSF2020) will be held from 14 to 19 September 2020 during the 1st World Sustainability Week in Geneva, Switzerland to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the UN SDGs: https://wsf-8.sciforum.net/
WSF2020 is an international scientific conference coordinated by MDPI, partially sponsored by the MDPI Sustainability Foundation, under the patronage of the University of Basel, the University of Geneva and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN SDSN).
With this event, WSF2020 hope to contribute to building a platform and network for a sustainability agenda that fosters partnerships among stakeholders beyond the boundaries of academic disciplines, narrow national agendas, and quarterly spreadsheets. WSF2020 quest is to conceive of ways to assure long-term sustainable development for our people, our planet, as well as societal and corporate profit.
20% discount from the registration fees will be granted to the EAHL members wanting to attend the WSF2020.
24.03.2020
The next EAHL conference venue has been announced!
EAHL is happy to announce that the venue for the next conference in 2021 will be Ghent, Belgium.
The Board has made the decision based on criteria approved by the General Assembly in Toulouse 2019 EAHL conference. For more details about the application procedure, please, click here https://eahl.eu/reports/criteria-obtain-sponsorship-eahl-health-law-activities-0
More details about the conference and venue to follow!
27.02.2020
To read or download the announcement of the next conference in pdf, please, click here.
After a too long period of social distancing, webinars, online-conferences and absence of real academic and social events, we are looking forward to see each other from 20 until 22 April 2022 in the lovely city of Ghent, Belgium, one of Europe’s best hidden secrets! It offers a combination of the history offered by Belgium’s Bruges and the vibrant livelihood of Belgium’s Antwerp. Or in other words: the perfect setting to once again meet in person and discuss the future of health law!
One of the most important lessons learned from the COVID-19-crisis is that we need to be able to trust on our healthcare to be patient-centered, effective, safe, efficient, equitable and timely, or in other words that we need to be able to trust on the quality of our healthcare. Health law plays a vital role with regard to quality of healthcare, not only through liability and sanctioning mechanisms when the quality and safety in healthcare was not enough, but also and foremost in creating frameworks through which the quality of healthcare can be guaranteed.
This conference will therefore offer a unique programme of distinguished keynote speakers, workshops and oral and poster presentations on broad scientific issues covering the conference theme: “Quality in healthcare. Can the law help to guarantee safe and reliable care for the patient?” This conference theme will be divided in 4 subthemes:
1. Quality and safety (Right to quality of care; Liability & compensation; Alternative mechanisms
for liability & compensation; Standard of care, …)
2. Quality of healthcare professionals & practices (Recognition, accreditation & certification;
Quality measurement; Inspection mechanisms, deontology & disciplinary sanctions; Free
movement of healthcare professionals, …)
3. Quality and new technology (Artificial Intelligence, Enhancement of healthcare , Personalized
medicine, …)
4. Quality of health data governance (Health data governance; Quality of data; Quality of care and
GDPR; Research with health data, …)
It is with great joy and enormous pleasure that we invite you, researchers, clinicians, educators, policy makers in health law to present your work on the 8th European Conference on Health Law, “Quality in healthcare. Can the law help to guarantee safe and reliable care for the patient?", from 20-22 April 2022!
Welcome in Ghent!
Prof. dr. Tom Balthazar & Prof. dr. Tom Goffin
Early bird registration and abstract submission before 31 January 2022.
Contact: eahl2022@ugent.be
New deadline for early bird registration!
NEW DEADLINE for early bird registration and abstract submission for the 8th European Conference on Health Law in Ghent: 31/01/2022!
22.12.2021
DATAETHICS Winter School, 24 – 28 January, 2022
5-day course online and virtual collaboration on „HEALTH DATA EMPOWERMENT and ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Ethical dilemmas, advantages and challenges.”
Deadline for Applications: 12:00 Central European Time (CET) on Friday, 17 December 2021
More information at: https://www.dataethics-eurolife.eu/events/dataethics-winter-school-2021/
You will also network with fellow students and thematic experts from the nine leading European institutions in Eurolife.
THEME SUMMARY
Digitalization is a key initiative in everyday life, including healthcare. Within this, one of the most promising and disruptive technologies is Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI has started to play an increasingly important role in daily medical practice. AI agents have already shown that they can match or even outperform human professionals in determining the best treatments for, amongst others, cancer patients. However, as new data science and AI technologies are being developed and tested, concerns have arisen regarding their ethical, societal and legal implications, as well as their susceptibility to errors. These include issues concerning clinical accuracy and safety, transparency, security, accountability, data privacy and fairness. This Winter School will offer a unique set of lectures and activities enabling participants to familiarise themselves with the value chain of ethical, social and legal considerations in the field of biomedical AI solutions.
TARGET GROUP: Bachelor, master and doctoral students in medicine, biomedicine, life sciences and other fields of study related to ethical, legal and social issues in medicine.
22.11.2021
Round Table on “Neurotechnologies and human rights”
The Committee on Bioethics is organising jointly with the OECD, a Round Table on “Neurotechnologies and human rights” which will be held on online on 9 November 2021.
Neurotechnologies have many applications in the biomedical fields, but its use is also a current and possible future reality in other fields, including justice.
The possibilities offered by neurotechnologies are potential source of important progress in the health field in particular. But the potential not only to “enter” into what some considered as the last area of “privacy”, i.e. the brain, but also to influence its functioning, raises major human rights challenges in all their fields of application.
From health, to justice and education, this round table may identify avenues for possible action which would need to be addressed to ensure appropriate protection of human rights and be relevant to different areas of work of the Council of Europe.
We kindly invite you to join us at this event completing the registration and would be very grateful if you could share this invitation below with your professional network.
01.11.2021<
Important updates about the next EAHL conference!
Early bird registration and abstract submission before 31 December 2021.
Contact: eahl2022@ugent.be
To download the letter from organisers with more details about the conference, please, click here.
18.10.21
WSF2021
WSF2021 is an international scientific conference coordinated by the MDPI Sustainability Foundation, under the patronage of the University of Basel.
September 2021 marks the sesquianniversary of much of the world entering into various forms of lockdown or pandemic management as well as the 6th anniversary of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The pandemic has challenged our expectations for the future and has prompted a re-evaluation of the relationships between society, politics and the commercial world. In the 9th World Sustainability Forum, we will consider all aspects of these new and evolving relationships and their impact on sustainability. Although all topics are welcome, we will have major sessions on the topics of Business and Finance, Climate, Health and Medicine, Water and Education.
The 9th World Sustainability Forum will take place from 13 - 15 September 2021. For further details on how to participate, please visit https://wsf-9.sciforum.net/.
We, the chair and the organization team, are very much looking forward to welcoming you to the 9th World Sustainability Forum. Let us grab this opportunity to advance the sustainability agenda!
03.08.2021
Dear Member of the EAHL,
Nordic Permed Law is calling for abstracts for a symposium and a special edition in the European Journal of Health Law on human genome editing.
You can find the call below or at https://www.
You are most welcome to submit an abstract, and contact the guest editors should you have any questions. Please note that the deadline is Sunday 1 August 2021. Any questions can be sent to post@nordicpermedlaw.org.
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Nordic Permed Law Symposium and European Journal of Health Law (EJHL) special issue
Nordic Permed Law is seeking original research contributions for a symposium on genome editing on 3-4 November 2021 and a subsequent special issue on Genome Editing, Health innovation, and Responsible Regulation for EJHL.
This special issue will be guest-edited by Santa Slokenberga, Ana Nordberg, and Timo Minssen on behalf of Nordic Permed Law. All contributions will be subject to double-blind peer-review, a review of guest editors, and a final check by the EJHL editorial board.
With the recent breakthroughs in genomics and advances in gene-editing techniques, the question of genome-editing and health innovation has become particularly important in society. New techniques such as CRISPR-Cas9 hold considerable potential to enhance personalized medicine. However, their potential and possible applications also bring along complex legal and regulatory questions in the European legal environment, intersecting with ethical and social concerns. How should the law respond to genome editing and health innovation in order to adequately reconcile diverse competing interests at stake and enhance personalized medicine?
We welcome submissions on the European legal perspectives of genome editing in health context and impacts for personalized medicine, including but not limited to topics falling within the following domains:
- Research regulation
- The right to health and transformation of medical care
- Challenges surrounding fundamental concepts in health regulation
- Diversity and vulnerabilities
- Governance of genome editing in both health care and dual-uses of technology
- The management of environmental health concerns posed by gene-editing technology
- Market structures, personal data, and intellectual property rights in genomic medicine
Submission Process
We encourage submissions from both established and early-career legal scholars. Interested authors should provide an abstract of no more than 300 words in Word format and provide the following information: first name/surname, affiliation, the title of the proposed paper, and email address of the corresponding author. We kindly ask you to confirm your availability for the symposium and preference for either a presentation on site in Uppsala, Sweden (if the public health regulations allow for that) or via a digital solution.
Please email your abstract by 1 August 2021 to post@nordicpermedlaw.
Manuscripts should not exceed 9,500 words including footnotes and follow the EJHL author guidelines: https://brill.com/
Warm wishes,
Santa Slokenberga, Ana Nordberg and Timo Minssen on behalf of the Nordic Permed Law
06.07.2021
HOW TO VOTE FOR OUR PROPOSAL
Using your institutional email register at: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/hpf/
During the registration process: Use the transparency number of your institution. If your institution does not have one, type “NA” in the box.
You must select UK or an EU member state under “Country”.
The approval of your account can take a few minutes (or up to one day).
Once your account is approved, use this link https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/hpf/item/item/40200 to enter the EU Health Policy Platform and vote for our proposal.
Thank you for your support! Only three projects will be selected and will have an impact on the EU Health Policy!
Should our proposal be selected, please come back on the EU Health Policy Platform and contribute to the discussion on our proposal for the evolution and finalization of the joint statement!
The voting ends on 26 July
EAHL full proposal is available on the EC Agora voting page: EAHL_Inclusive Pharmaceutical Strategy for the EU
05.07.2021
Call for Applications – PhD Positions in “Health Law – Digitalisation and Innovation”
The Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich (MPISOC) is an interdisciplinary institute pursuing research on social questions in an international context. The Institute’s Department of Foreign and International Social Law is now offering PhD positions in “Health Law – Digitalisation and Innovation”. Potential topics include: the legal regulation of digital health devices, data protection and cybersecurity in healthcare, biomedical innovation, artificial intelligence, and personalised medicine. Comparative, transnational, and legal-historical approaches to this field are particularly welcomed. The start date is 1 September 2021, or as soon as possible thereafter.
Please send your application by 31 July 2021 to hr@mpisoc.mpg.de and l
For more details, visit https://www.mpisoc.mpg.de/en/career/vacancies/vacancies-details/job/phd…;
15.06.2021
Next EAHL conference - new date!
Due to the coronavirus outbreak many events around the world, including the EAHL conference, have been cancelled or postponed.
The EAHL next conference's organizers have proposed a new date, which was confirmed.
The next EAHL conference to be held on 20-22 April 2022!
Save the date!
07.05.2021
INVITATION LETTER – survey on GDPR and eConsent
Dear,
As an important stakeholder in the field of clinical research, you are invited to take part in an online survey to share your experience on key challenges related to compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and to obtaining informed consent prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This academic study is conducted in the context of research at KU Leuven (Belgium). It can be used to inform other projects, such as the IMI-2 consortium Corona Accelerated R&D in Europe (CARE) - a public-private partnership between academia and industry on the development of corona therapeutics. The results will support researchers in being compliant with the GDPR and in understanding the legal and ethical framework in drug development during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The survey targets: legal teams and data protection officers at research organisations and pharmaceutical companies, investigators/physicians, and ethics committees.
It consists of two parts:
- Part 1. Compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation for clinical studies
- Part 2. General aspects related to (electronic) informed consent
At the end of Part 1, you will be asked if you want to participate in a follow-up interview that will explore in more depth the issues related to data protection.
The study was approved by the Ethics Committee Research UZ/KU Leuven
To participate in the survey please click on the following link: https://kuleuven.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_263MU2PYqS43gfY
If you know other experts who may be interested in this subject, please feel free to share the link to the survey with them.
In case of any questions or if you experience problems during the survey, you can contact Teodora Lalova
Thank you very much in advance for your participation!
20.04.2021
Calling for Global Vaccine Equity
Erasmus Health Law Event
29 April 2021, 16:30 CET
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global catastrophe that has led to colossal loss of lives and livelihoods. Its impact in low-income countries is particularly severe and pre-existing inequities are further exacerbated.
Vaccination is a crucial tool in halting the pandemic. With many western countries already rolling out COVID-19 vaccines, low-income countries are largely depending on international donors such as the World Health Organization’s COVAX initiative. This joint initiative is generally considered as a global solution to realize equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for all. Although COVAX is underway to deliver vaccines to low-income countries, so far, inequity in global access to covid-19 vaccines is causing needless deaths, and prolonging the pandemic and viral transmission that fosters variants which undermine vaccine efficacy.
On various occasions global leaders, human rights organisations and scholars remind States of their obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in relation to universal access and affordability of vaccines for COVID-19, in particular in relation to international cooperation and intellectual property. They have urged States to share vaccine knowledge and expand global capacity
During this seminar several speakers will respond to the plea for a more equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.
Speakers
- Dr. Ellen ‘t Hoen, researcher at the University Medical Centre at the University of Groningen
(The Netherlands).
- Dr Yuan Hu, Senior Legal & Policy Advisor Médecins Sans Frontières (Geneva)
- Isabel de la Mata Barranco, Principal Advisor for Health and Crisis Management, European Commission
- Prof. dr. Ole Norheim (Bergen University, department Global Health Ethics)
The event is hosted by Erasmus School of Law, Health Law Group
Free access (Zoom): https://eur-nl.zoom.us/j/93616371111
Contact: denexter@law.eur.nl
09.04.2021
Update
The webinar on vaccination passports in the form of “digital green certificates” in order to facilitate the safe free movement of citizens of one Member State to and in other EU Member States has been held successfully.
The presentations can be found on our website at https://eahl.eu/reports/webinar-covid
28.03.2021
The European Commission has launched its plan to introduce vaccination passports in the form of “digital green certificates” in order to facilitate the safe free movement of citizens of one Member State to and in other EU Member States. The certificate will serve as a digital proof that a person has been vaccinated against COVID-19, has recovered from COVID-19 or has a negative test result. The introduction of these vaccination passports poses many questions, specially with regard to the necessary legal framework and its legal consequences. The European Association of Health Law has therefore taken the initiative to organize a free webinar on COVID-19 and vaccination passports. During this webinar several health lawyers will give their expert opinion on this topic during brief presentations and a closing debate.
Speakers include:
Tom Goffin, Judit Sandor, André den Exter, Maria Sharkova and Mahsa Shabani
The webinar will be held on Zoom Thursday 25 March at 5:30 (Central European Time).
https://uib.zoom.us/j/
Passcode: K9tpt53r
19.03.2021
The Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich is an interdisciplinary research institute engaging with a broad range of topics in the field of foreign and international social law. Our Institute is now offering several PhD positions in “Digital Health – Digitalisation in Health Law”. Possible topics include data protection and cybersecurity in healthcare, personalised medicine, and legal regulation of digital health.
Candidates should have knowledge in digital law and/or international comparative law, as well as good language skills in English and German. Please send your application until March 15th, 2021 to hr@mpisoc.mpg.de and leber@mpisoc.mpg.de. Your application should include a CV, a list of publications, a short project outline (5 pages max.), and copies of your certificates/qualifications.
For more details, please, click here.
16.08.2022
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The upcoming UACES (University Association for Contemporary European Studies) conference at Queen’s University Belfast, 6-9 September 2020.
We warmly invite submission of abstracts on the theme of Health in Europe, to join our panel at the upcoming UACES (University Association for Contemporary European Studies) conference at Queen’s University Belfast, 6-9 September 2020.
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The panel will explore all areas of EU health law and policy, including but not limited to:
- Public health, health determinants and health inequalities in and across member states
- The role of European actors – the Commission, the Parliament, the agencies, WHO Europe etc. – in health and health governance
- The impact of the single market upon health systems, for example via competition law, pharmaceutical regulation, migration of health professionals, trade...
- Governing health emergencies and managing collective health threats in Europe
- The inclusion of health in broader governance frameworks such as the European Semester, the Pillar of Social Rights, Europe 2020...
We welcome papers from all disciplines, including law, public policy, sociology, economics, public health, global health etc., pertaining to any dimension of Health in Europe. If you are planning to submit a paper on a topic related to the above, and are interested in doing so as part of a pre-formed panel, please send your abstract to Eleanor Brooks (University of Edinburgh – eleanor.brooks@ed.ac.uk) and Mary Guy (Lancaster University – m.guy2@lancaster.ac.uk) by Monday 6 January 2020. We will select from these a panel of papers and confirm inclusion by Monday 13 January 2020, so that any unsuccessful submissions can be sent to the general call ahead of the 26 January 2020 deadline.
06.12.2019
Jean Monnet Summer School on Human Rights and Health (update) 09.05.2019 new update 23.05.2019
Jean Monnet Summer School on Human Rights and Health, organized by the Jean Monnet Chair in European Health, Environmental and Food Safety Law, which will be held at the University of Salerno from 1 to 5 July 2019.
***Reminder – Ticket sales CLOSE 31st May*** 21.05.2019
The University of Manchester, School of Law, is proud to host Healthcare disparities: disruptive healthcare technologies and the patient , a conference held in collaboration with Queen Mary School of Law, on the 13 and 14 June 2019.
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The question of health inequalities worldwide has become increasingly significant. Disparities in healthcare refer to often-negative differences in healthcare provision between different population groups, such as race/ethnicity, age, socio-economic group and gender.
Disruptive technologies offer the potential to reset the playing field, injecting new opportunities for healthcare development and offering the potential to provide cheaper, simpler products or services
The conference encourages fundamental and challenging questions to be asked: Are disparities in health here to stay? To what extent is technological innovation the answer to health inequalities? And what legal and ethical benefits and challenges might emerge in the future?
In addition to keynote and breakout presentations from world-leading experts, including Professor Nicolas Terry, Professor Ian Freckelton QC, Professor Tamara Hervey, Professor Mette Hartlev and Professor Richard Ashcroft, there will be a drinks reception at The University of Manchester on 13 June.
Delegates are invited to attend a networking dinner at The Crowne Plaza, Oxford Road on Friday 14 June for an additional fee.
This event has been approved by the Royal College of Physicians for 18 category 1 (external) CPD credits.
The Council of Europe organises a HELP workshop at the 7th European Association of Health Law Conference 07.05.2019
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Organised under the auspices of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, the 7th Congress of the European Association of Health Law (EAHL) will host the workshop “The Council of Europe Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) and Bioethics”. For more details, please, visit the official CoE website at https://www.coe.int/en/web/bioethics/-/human-rights-in-biomedicine-for-legal-and-health-professiona-1 |
25th WCML 2019 - Tokyo, Japan August 6-8, 2019 / Waseda University
02.05.2019
Main Themes: Role of Medical Law in 21st Century; Collaboration Between Medical Law, Bioethics and Legal Medicine
Aim: The 25th World Congress for Medical Law will be held in Tokyo, Waseda University International Conference Center in August 6-8, 2019. This Congress will focus on constructing a bridge between medical law, bioethics and legal medicine. Japanese Association of Medical Law has a history for 50 years since 1969, and has discussed various issues on medical law. Therefore we hope that many participants will meet at the Congress, and discuss subjects on constructing a bridge between medical law, bioethics and legal medicine.
Seminar Global Health and Human Rights
18 July 2019 Erasmus Law School, Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands)
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In a rapidly globalised word, health and human rights are closely related. Violating basic human rights can heavily impact in a negative way the health of individuals and communities. Violating further basic human rights might also lead to inequality and discrimination in access to health-care services. The realisation of human rights in health care is therefore a key-obligation, both at national and global level. But what is the relationship between human rights and global health about? What are the key elements of that complex relationship, what are the key national and international institutions, and how do they respond to human rights challenges in health? These and other issues will be adressed during a one-day seminar, organised by the Erasmus Health Law Observatory, Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands) and IDIVAL, University of Cantabria (Spain) and hosted by the Erasmus Law School. Seminar co-directors: André den Exter, Erasmus Law School, Erasmus University Rotterdam (denexter@law.eur.nl) Joaquin Cayon, IDIVAL-University of Cantabria (joaquin.cayon@unican.es) To read more, please, click here |
Healthcare disparities: disruptive healthcare technologies and the patient, a conference held in collaboration with Queen Mary School of Law
The University of Manchester, School of Law, is proud to host Healthcare disparities: disruptive healthcare technologies and the patient, a conference held in collaboration with Queen Mary School of Law, on the 13 and 14 June 2019.
The question of health inequalities worldwide has become increasingly significant. Disparities in healthcare refer to often-negative differences in healthcare provision between different population groups, such as race/ethnicity, age, socio-economic group and gender.
EAHL official Twitter and LinkedIn accounts have been launched
LinkedIn accounts have been launched
EAHL has launched official Twitter and LinkedIn accounts.
To access Twitter account, please, visit https://twitter.com/EAHLaw
To access LinkedIn account, please, follow the link https://www.linkedin.com/in/european-association-of-health-law-aba0b0177/
update: 20.12.2018
International Autumn School on Health Law and Bioethics / New Trends in Health Systems and Patients' Rights
International Autumn School on Health Law and Bioethics (4th edition) to be organized in Santander (Spain) on 14, 15, 16 November 2018
The fourth edition of this specialized workshop provides an overview of different issues to enhance the preparation of health professionals. It is focused on both theoretical and practical aspects of health systems and health law exploring current legal and policy issues which impact on the rights and responsibilities of patients, health providers and policy makers.
Registration dates: from 25/10/2018 to 13/11/2018
To read the Autumn School's Program, please, click here.
To read more and apply, please, click here
Health care rationing in Europe: the past, present and future. A multidisciplinary approach
Venue: National School of Public Health (ENSP), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Salao Nobre, Lisbon, Portugal
Date: 26 October 2018, 9.00 – 17.00
Language: English
A key challenge of this conference is to address healthcare rationing on several levels (macro, meso and micro); types of rationing (demand and supply side-rationing); to what extent it influences political decision-making; and how to cope with the ‘legitimacy problem’ in rationing decision-making. Therefore, ENSP welcomes colleagues from various disciplines to exchange experiences on health care rationing in different health care systems in Europe.
For more information click here.
EU health law and policy: Shaping a future research agenda
29-30 November 2018
"EU health law and policy: Shaping a future research agenda"
Final workshop and special issue – Call for papers
This workshop is the second of two in an interdisciplinary project run by Dr Eleanor Brooks (Edinburgh) and Dr Mary Guy (Lancaster). It seeks to advance the study of EU health law and policy by providing a timely and multi-disciplinary assessment of EU health governance and contribute to the establishment of an ‘EU health studies’ field.
Academics and practitioners at any career stage, and from law, political science or any
other relevant discipline are invited to submit an abstract of 300-450 words to Dr Eleanor Brooks (eleanor.brooks@ed.ac.uk; +44(0)131 6504 282) by Friday 6 July 2018.
Healthcare Disparities disruptive healthcare technologies and the patient
13th - 15th June 2019, University of Manchester
The Conference - "HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES disruptive healthcare technologies and the patient" will be taking place in June 2019 at the University of Manchester.
For more information on sub-topics, registration and other details download the 1st flyer of the conference.
Jean Monnet Summer School on Climate Change, Health and the Environment
2 - 6 July 2018, University of Salerno (Italy)
Organized by the Jean Monnet Chair "Health, Environmental and Food Safety Law" and sponsored by the European Association of Health Law, this Summer School offers an intensive and specialistic course focusing on the current challenges facing the international community with regard to the protection of the environment and public health from the effects of climate change.
EAHL Members are entitled to a 10% discount on the tuition fee.
More information and registration form at http://www.jean-monnet-chair-healthy.eu/summer-school-2018.html
Contact: Prof. Stefania Negri at snegri@unisa.it
12th European Conference on Medical Law
„European Integration on Health Care“
Will take place on 29 June 2018 in the Federal Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Health and Consumer Protection. Radetzkystraße 2, 1030 Vienna.
Members of the EAHL will get 10% discount at registration.
For more information and registration, please, visit the Conference website at
http://www.medizinrecht-europa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Programm-1…
Announcement: EAHL 2019 Conference
The next EAHL Conference dates have been announced.
The conference will take place on 26-27 September, 2019 at the University of Toulouse (France), and will be organized in partnership with the Unit INSERM UMR 1027 University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse 1 Capitole University, the Research Institute of European International and Comparative Law (IRDEIC), the Jean Monnet Chair in European Health Law and Medicinal products as well as the Association for Research and Training in Medical Law (ARFDM) under the topic «Innovation & Healthcare».
Committee on Medical and Pharmaceutical Law celebrates its first anniversary on August 5, 2018!
On August 5, 2017, the Ukrainian National Bar Association established the Committee on Medical and Pharmaceutical Law and Bioethics. Iryna Senyuta was elected as the Head of Committee (National Contact Person from Ukraine). The Committee aims to promote the development of medical and pharmaceutical law, the legal basis of bioethics, public health law in the field of advocacy; along with the expansion of specialized practices, and the effective protection of human rights in health care provision. The Committee consists of profile sections, divided by the main areas of Committee’s activity, namely the sections on the following fields: medical law, pharmaceutical law, legal basis of bioethics, public health law. The tasks of the Committee can be defined, inter alia, as: 1) drafting normative legal acts in the field of health care, proposals thereto and to the current legislation on optimizing the protection of human rights; 2) preparation of analytical and methodological materials for attorneys in the field of medical and pharmaceutical law, legal basis of bioethics and public health law; 3) participation in the organization and / or holding of seminars, conferences, trainings and other events of the UNBA; 4) cooperation with specialized legal clinics and medical legal clinics in order to promote the provision of free legal aid in medical cases to the population and the dissemination of practical knowledge among the students; 5) cooperation with international institutions in the areas of the Committee's activities.
During the year of the Committee's operation, there have taken place a lot of interesting activities, including: 1) conduction of specialized training in medical law for attorneys (March-April 2018); 2) introduction at the Higher Bar School of UNBA of the permanent training course "Medical Law" for attorneys; 3) preparation of two methodical recommendations for attorneys: a) on protection of human rights in the field of vaccinations; b) on civil legal protection of human right for medical assistance (June-July 2018); 4) conduction of the Ukrainian Human Rights Week in the field of health care, timed to the Universal Human Rights Day, which takes place on December 10 (December 2017), the activity included, in particular, the provision of free public counseling on human rights in the field of health care protection; 5) conduction of series of round tables on medical law involving attorneys, judges, policemen and prosecutors, representatives of medical and legal educational institutions, health care organizers; in order to discuss complex issues related to the human rights protection and defending in medical cases (April-May 2018).
The European Interest Group on biobanks has held its first (inaugural) meeting. The main aim of the group is to create a network to exchange information about biobanking laws and ethical guidelines and establish collaborations between the members of the group in order to contribute to the ongoing developments of interest for professionals and patients at EU / National regulatory levels.
Co-ordinators of the interestgroup for the first 2 years are Emmanuelle Rial-Sebbag / Anne-Marie Duguet. Contact-point is Aurélie Mahalatchimy
The group will co-operate with the interest group on data protection, (co-ordinator Jean Herveg).
Next year during the EAHL conference in Norway, Bergen, 28-29 September 2017, a session on biobanking will be organised on behalf of the interest group.
6th Conference of the European Association of Health Law 28 – 29 SEPTEMBER 2017, Bergen, Norway
Here you can download information flyer.
6th EAHL conference will be held in Bergen, Norway, in 28-29 September 2017 (week 39).
Health rights entitlements and the distribution of health care.
Online Registration and abstract submission is open now. Deadline registration and abstract submission: 15 May 2017.
More information eahl2017.org
Draft minutes of the General Assembly held on 2 October 2015 in Prague
Draft minutes of the General Assembly held on 2 October 2015 in Prague at the occasion of the fifth EAHL Conference are now available under the Section Members Resources, General Assembly.