School of Law

Welcome to the Health Law & Ethics Research Interest Group

We aim to engage in topical health law and ethics research and teaching from a uniquely South African perspective, and to impact on the South African, African, and global health law and ethics landscape.

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Inaugural lecture by Professor Donrich Thaldar: Building a progressive reproductive law in South Africa

Colloquium Series on African Philosophy, Genetics and Genomics

WORKSHOP: IS IT TIME TO RECONSIDER THE GENETIC LINK REQUIREMENT FOR SURROGACY?

VIRTUAL WORKSHOP: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HEALTHCARE IN SOUTH AFRICA

ART Regulations Revised Draft

PRINCIPLES FOR HERITABLE HUMAN GENOME EDITING

On an undergraduate level, we present Bioethics as an elective to LLB students. On a postgraduate level, we offer a research LLM, and coursework LLM in Medical Law, and a research PhD. Our undergraduate course in Bioethics is typically taken by about 100 students every year. Our main areas of interest are

Reproductive law & ethics
Children’s rights – research, reproduction
New technologies & health care
Big data, genomics, and health law
End-of-life

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Doctoral fellows