Evolution and revolution: law's race to keep up with biotechnology

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Evolution and revolution: law's race to keep up with biotechnology


The legal dilemmas posed by the trade in human body parts are among the bioethical issues dealt with in the latest UTS Law Review, The Mind, The Body and The Law, being launched in Sydney next week. Featuring articles by law researchers in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, The Mind, The Body and The Law is a joint production of Santa Clara University in the US and the University of Technology, Sydney's Faculty of Law. Co-editor of the journal, Associate Professor Patrick Keyzer, said the intersection of law and medicine was a site of rapid change and a major test of the law's ability to adapt. The journal's authors had tackled ethics and regulation in mental injury, dealings in organs and human tissue, drug testing on people, surrogacy, biological enhancements and cloning. Professor Keyzer said some difficult issues were canvassed, including whether human tissue fits the common law concept of property and whether current efforts to ban human cloning might one day impact on the human rights of some children, if the reproductive use of cloning proves inevitable. "The two-year process of developing an international joint edition of the journal has highlighted the global nature of the debates over these issues," Professor Keyzer said. "Whether the law has responded appropriately, or how it should even begin to respond, are recurring themes in each of the articles." The Mind, The Body and The Law is co-edited by Professor June Carbone of the University of Missouri, Kansas City (formerly of Santa Clara University), with Associate Professors Anita Stuhmcke and Patrick Keyzer of UTS. Published in conjunction with Halstead Press, it is being launched at a special event, Celebrating Academic Excellence, being held next Tuesday (11 July) at the Sydney offices of the law firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques. In addition to launching the Law Review the event will honour outstanding undergraduate and Master of Law and Legal Practice students of the UTS Law program. Wednesday 5 July 2006