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TILT lecture prof. Brownsword cancelled

We regret to announce that, due to personal circumstances, the TILT lecture entitled 'Regulatory Coherence, Regulatory Legitimacy, and the Patentability of Stem Cell Innovation' to be held on Friday 11th May at 10 am in M10.03 has been cancelled. Our apologies for any inconvenience. Please see TILT’s website for announcements regarding future TILT lectures.

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TILT lecture on the Patentability of Stem Cell Innovation
The Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) is delighted to announce that Prof. Roger Brownsword will give the upcoming TILT lecture entitled 'Regulatory Coherence, Regulatory Legitimacy, and the Patentability of Stem Cell Innovation' on Friday 11 May 2012 from 10:00 - 11:00 hrs in M 10.03. TILT invites everyone who is interested - whether a member of our faculty or not - to attend the lecture.

In his lecture, prof. Brownsword will reflect on the regulatory ramifications of the recent decision by the European Court of Justice in the Brüstle case. The court decided that an invention is not patentable where the working of that invention requires the prior destruction of human embryos or their use as base material. It is expected that this decision will have adverse effects on scientific research involving human embryonic stem cells in Europe.

Roger Brownsword is a professor at King’s College London. In recent years, he has acted as a specialist adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on Stems Cells and the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee; he was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics from 2004-2010; he was a Leverhulme Research Fellow in 2003-2004; he has served as co-editor of the Articles section of the Modern Law Review and he is now a member of the Editorial Board; he was a member of the Law panel for the Research Assessment Exercise in 2008; he is the founding co-editor of a new journal; Law, Innovation and Technology, which launched in 2009; and he currently chairs the Ethics and Governance Council of UK Biobank. Roger Brownsword was a visiting scholar of TILT in 2008.

Naveen Thayyil defends his PhD
Naveen Thayyil will be defending his PhD thesis on Friday May 11 at 12:15 in the Auditorium. His thesis is titled: GMOs in Europe: Law, Technology and Public Contestations. Naveen's supervisors are Han Somsen, Roger Brownword (King's College London), and Maria Lee (UCL Faculty of Laws, London). His defence will be preluded by a brief introduction of his dissertation at 12.00.

PhD. defence Eric Verhelst
External PhD. candidate Eric Verhelst will be defending his PhD thesis titled: "Recht doen aan privacyverklaringen. Een juridische analyse van privacyverklaringen" on May 11 at 14.15. Corien Prins is Eric's supervisor.
Eric works at the law firm Verhelst which specializes in the IT branch. They deal with legal issues in the fields of IT, intellectual property, Internet and privacy.