Nils will be speaking at the ESHRE SIG Ethics and Law Campus Workshop in Alicante on 28 February 2025. His talk will look at current legal and regulatory approaches in Europe to dealing with embryos… Read More »The fate of supernumerary cryopreserved embryos
We are delighted to announce a change in the partnership (and name!) of Lawford Davies & Co. Eric M. Meslin will join the partnership of the firm and expand the firm’s legal and regulatory portfolio… Read More »Lawford Davies & Co is now LDMH Partners
Professor Kathy Liddell, one of the UK’s preeminent intellectual property and medical lawyers, joins Lawford Davies & Co (LD&C) to boost the firm’s expertise in the fields of science and technology law, and bioethics. Professor… Read More »Leading intellectual property and medical lawyer joins Lawford Davies & Co
Recent scientific advances (see here and here) outline processes which may pave the way for embryos to be created without the use of any gametes – purely on the basis of an (embryonic) stem cell.… Read More »Law and synthetic embryos: latest developments
Newly formed life sciences law firm Lawford Davies & Co brings together expert life sciences lawyers to provide a more complete understanding of legal advice to the sector.
The Frankfurt/Main appeal court (OLG) recently held (14.12.2023, Az. 2 UF 33/23) that the adoption of a child born as a result of a surrogacy arrangement abroad was lawful despite the general prohibition on surrogacy… Read More »German appeals court rules in favour of adoption in surrogacy case
The HFEA has made proposals to change the law on the regulation of fertility treatment embryo research.
On 29 March 2023 the Law Commission of E&W, together with the Scottish Law Commission, published its report, as well as a proposal for new legislation, on reforms of the legal framework in relation to surrogacy.
Nils was interviewed by the European Heart Journal to give some insights into the legal and ethical issues surrounding the use of artificial intelligence technologies in medicine, and in particular in cardiology. Read the whole… Read More »Nils Hoppe interviewed by the European Heart Journal – AI in Medicine
The Times has profiled James in its Lawyer of The Week category after his work on behalf of the widower Ted Jennings. Read the article
