MVV166K Law and Biomedicine – International and Comparative Perspective

Faculty of Law
Spring 2015
Extent and Intensity
0/1. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Julia Kapelańska Pręgowska, PhD. (lecturer), doc. JUDr. Ing. Michal Radvan, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. JUDr. Ing. Michal Radvan, Ph.D.
Department of Financial Law and Economics – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Mgr. Věra Redrupová, B.A.
Supplier department: Department of Financial Law and Economics – Faculty of Law
Timetable of Seminar Groups
MVV166K/01: Mon 20. 4. 16:40–18:10 038, 18:15–19:45 038, Tue 21. 4. 16:40–18:10 038, 18:15–19:45 038, Wed 22. 4. 18:15–19:45 038
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
Course is devoted to specific legal and bioethical problems and dilemas raised by the advances in the field of biology and medicine. Seminar covers international biomedical/bioethical standards (hard law, soft law) and key case-law on the subject, as well as comparative perspective (selected domestic regulations and case-law). At the end of the course:
- student acquires knowledge on relations between bioethics and law, as well as on fundamental terminology and concepts of bioethics;
- student acquires basic knowledge on international and comparative regulations (had law and soft law) concerning biomedicine;
- student acquires knowledge on relations between international and domestic systems within a specific context of biomedicine;
- student is able to use acquired knowledge to critically analyse and present opinion concerning specific problems emerging from application of biomedical advances;
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction: origin, definition and subject-matter of international biomedical/bioethical law (1 hour);
  • 2. Institutional and procedural issues - main actors, mechanisms of standard setting and implementation (1 hour);
  • 3. European convention on human rights and biomedicine (1 hour);
  • 4. Patient autonomy, consent to medical treatment; advance directives (living wills) (1 hour);
  • 5. Medical experiments/biomedical research (1 hour);
  • 6. Human cloning, embryonic stem cells (1 hour);
  • 8. Human genetics - genes ownership and patenting, genetic data protection, genetic testing (2 hours);
  • 9. Begining -of-life issues (medically assisted procreation, surrogate motherhood, abortion, prenatal and preimplantation genetic screening) (1 hour);
  • 10. End-of -life issues (medically assisted suicide, euthanasia) (1 hour)
Literature
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Teaching methods
1. Conventional lecture (presentation given by the lecturer)
2. Discussion (brainstorming, pair and group discussion)
3. Case-study and moot court
Assessment methods
Paper on specified topic
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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