Prof. Marcin Wiącek
Commissioner for Human Rights VIII term
Marcin Wiącek was born on 28 March 1982 in Mińsk Mazowiecki. He is a professor of the University of Warsaw, and holds the degree of habilitated doctor in law. He is the head of the Human Rights Department of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw. His areas of specialty are constitutional law and human rights.
He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw as well as the Center for American Law (2006). In 2009, he defended his doctoral dissertation regarding a court’s question of law to the Constitutional Tribunal. Also in that year, he became a member of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw.
In 2013, he was awarded the degree of habilitated doctor, after passing the post-doctoral degree examination and defending his dissertation on the possibility of application of the constitutional regulations, by courts and the Constitutional Tribunal, in cases originating in the post-war period.
Since 2019, he has been a professor at the University of Warsaw. In 2003–2007 he worked in the Constitutional Tribunal. Since 2007, he has been employed at the Jurisprudence Division of the Supreme Administrative Court. In 2014–2018, he was a member of the Prime Minister’s Legislative Council. In 2014–2016, he was responsible for legislative applications at the Government Legislation Center. He was also a member of the National Committee on Spatial Planning and Architecture. Member of the Research Centre on Legal Aspects of Blockchain Technology, operating within the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw.
Author of over one hundred scientific publications, in particular on constitutional law, constitutional courts, administrative courts and human rights protection. Participant of numerous scientific conferences, including international ones.
He has cooperated as an expert with numerous public bodies, including the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, the Sejm Bureau of Research, the Office of Commissioner for Human Rights, the Government Legislation Center, the Supreme Audit Office, the National Council of the Judiciary, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Development, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Ministry of the State Treasury, the Ministry of Finance, the Municipal Office of Warsaw and the Marshal of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship.
He has been awarded the Warsaw Order of Merit by the Warsaw City Council, and the “I remember – I help” medal by the Association of Warsaw Insurgents and the Foundation for the Remembrance of the Warsaw Uprising Heroes.
He speaks English and French.
Prof. Leszek Bosek
Head of Medical Law and Biotechnology Center
Education:
Degree Courses
- 2023 Full Professor in Law (Professor Ordinarius)
- 2015 Professor of the University of Warsaw
- 2013 Habilitation in Law (Dr. Hab. Iur.), Gwarancje godności ludzkiej i ich wpływ na polskie prawo cywilne [Guarantees of human dignity and their impact of Polish civil law], University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law and Administration
- 2006 PhD in Law (Dr. Iur.), Bezprawie legislacyjne (problemy odpowiedzialności odszkodowawczej) [Legislative unlawfulness (problems of compensatory damages)], the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law and Administration, adviser: Professor Marek Safjan
- 2002 MA in Law (summa cum laude), the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law and Administration 2000 Diploma in English and European Law, the University of Cambridge & the University of Warsaw
Employment:
- Since 2018 Head of the Center for Medical Law and Biotechnology, the University of Warsaw
- Since 2008 Department of Civil Law, the University of Warsaw
- 2009-2015 Assistant Professor, Department of Bioethics and Medical Law, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
- 2008-2021 Lecturer in European and Constitutional Law, Bar of Legal Advisers in Warsaw
Area of expertise:
Medical Law, Civil Law, European Law, Constitutional Law
Courses taught:
General Part of Civil Law and Property Law; Law of Obligations in jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Constitutional Tribunal; General Part of Civil Law in jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Constitutional Tribunal; European Medical Law and Bioethics; Medical Law.
International cooperation
Selected lectures & research
- 2021 United Kingdom, the University of Cambridge, 10th Annual Conference of the Cambridge International Law Journal, paper „Testing proportionality of anti-epidemic emergency measures under EU law”
- 2021 The Netherlands-Serbia, Erasmus University in Rotterdam and University of Belgrad, keynote speech „Anti-epidemic emergency measures under Polish law in a comparative, historical and jurisprudencial perspective”, Responses to COVID crisis in Central and Eastern European Countries – New Frontiers of Health Law
- 2020 Ukraine, National University of Taras Shevchenko in Kiev, paper „The State of Epidemic Emergency and the State of Epidemic in a comparative perspective”
- 2014 Italy, European University Institute, Florence
- 2013 United Kingdom, Exeter College, University of Oxford
- 2011 Germany, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg
- 2010 Germany, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg
- 2009 Belgium, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Leuven
- 2008 Germany, Free University of Berlin
- 2008 United Kingdom, Cardiff School od Law
Selected publications:
Marek Safjan, Leszek Bosek (editors-in-chief) the 6-volume work “The System of Medical Law”, C.H. Beck 2017-2022, pp. 7098 (“System Prawa Medycznego”), which comprehensively discusses the entire system of health law. The System includes: Volume I, M. Safjan, L. Bosek (editors), Institutions of medical law, 2017, pp. 1088, Leszek Bosek, Chapters: 4, p. 237-315; 8, p. 495-515; 9.3-9.4, p. 519-626; 11.1-11.3; 11.10.1-11.10.4, p. 689-865; Volume II. Special health services, 2018, pp. 1076 pages, Leszek Bosek Chapters: 1, p. 1-43, 2, p. 45-84, 18, p. 913-965; Volume III. Organization of the health care system, 2020, pp. 1350 pages, Leszek Bosek Chapter 2, p. 29-98, Chapter 4, p. 139-200, Chapter 5, p. 201-282; Volume IV. Pharmaceutical law, 2019, pp. 1062; Volume V. Private law liability, 2021, pp. 1092; Volume VI. Public law liability, 2022, pp. 1430;
Leszek Bosek, Stan epidemii. Konstrukcja prawna [State of Epidemic. Legal concept], C.H.Beck 2022, pp. 400 (a comparative monograph);
Leszek Bosek, Anti-Epidemic Emergency Regimes under Polish Law in Comparative, Historical and Jurisprudential Perspective, “European Journal of Health Law” (28) 2021/2, s. 113–141;
Leszek Bosek, Bezprawie legislacyjne [Legislative unlawfulness], second edition – Wolters Kluwer 2021, pp. 400 (a monograph);
Leszek Bosek (ed.), Ustawa o zapobieganiu oraz zwalczaniu zakażeń i chorób zakaźnych u ludzi. Komentarz [The Act on preventing and combating infections and infectious diseases. Commentary], C.H. Beck 2020, 1054 pages; L. Bosek – the editor and author of commentaries to: art. 1, art. 2, art. 3, art. 4, art. 5, art. 6, art. 46, art. 46a, art. 46b, art. 46bb, art. 48a (>300 pages);
Leszek Bosek (ed.), Ustawa o prawach pacjenta i Rzeczniku Praw Pacjenta. Komentarz [Act on Patient’s Rights and Patient’s Rights Ombudsman. Commentary], C. H. Beck, Warsaw 2020, 873 pages. L. Bosek – the editor and author of commentaries to: Art. 1, Art. 2, Art. 3, Art. 4 section 2, Art. 5, Art. 6, Art. 7, Art. 12a, Art. 20, Art. 20a, Art. 21, Art. 22, Art. 67a, Art. 67b, Art. 67c, Art. 67d, Art. 72 (>180 pages);
Leszek Bosek, W. Borysiak, The Determination of Death under Polish Law in Comparative, Historical and Medical Perspective, European Journal of Health Law 28 (6/2020), pp. 1-20;
Leszek Bosek, Grzegorz Żmij , On the CETA’s compatibility with European Union law in light of Opinion No 1/17 of the Court of Justice of 30 April 2019, Zeitschrift für Europarecht, Internationales Privatrecht & Rechtsvergleichung 6/2020, pp. 652-680;
Leszek Bosek (ed.), Medical Law, C.H.BECK 2019, 572 pages, L. Bosek – author of chapters: 1, 5, 6.3-6.4, 8.1-8.3, 8.6, 8.10, 13;
Leszek Bosek, Aktualne zagadnienia sporne w międzynarodowym arbitrażu inwestycyjnym – uwagi na tle wyroku TSUE z 6 marca 2018 r. Achmea C-284/16, [w:] J. Haberko. J. Grykiel, K. Mularski (red.), Ius civile vilantibus scriptum est. Księga jubileuszowa Profesora Adama Olejniczaka, Warszawa 2022;
Leszek Bosek, G. Żmij, Jeszcze o rozstrzyganiu sporów patentowych w Europie. Uwagi na tle wyroku niemieckiego Federalnego Trybunału Konstytucyjnego z dnia 13 lutego 2020 r., [w:] A. Jakubecki, A. Niewęgłowski (red.), Księga Jubileuszowa Profesora Ryszarda Skubisza, Warszawa 2022;
Leszek Bosek, Między obiektywnym porządkiem wartości a autonomią prawa cywilnego – konstytucyjne aspekty niegodności dziedziczenia, [w:] W. Borysiak, J. Wierciński (red.), Księga jubileuszowa Profesor Elżbiety Skowrońskiej-Bocian, Warszawa 2022;
Leszek Bosek, Katarzyna Królikowska, Constitutional Dimensions of the Judicial Restitution of Wrongfully Expropriated Property in Poland, Loyola of Los Angeles International & Comparative Law Review, 3 (41) 2018, p. 369-408;
Marek Safjan, Leszek Bosek (ed.), Konstytucja Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Komentarz [Constitution of the Republic of Poland. Commentary to Art. 1-86], vol. 1 and vol. 2, C.H. Beck, Warsaw 2016, pp. 4000. L. Bosek – author of commentaries to: Art. 30 [dignity] p. 722-751; Art. 31 ust. 1-2 [freedom] p. 751-770; Art. 32 [equality and non-discrimination] p. 818-843; Art. 68 [right to health] p. 1523-1565; Art. 77 [liability of public bodies] p. 1725-1774; Art. 79 [constitutional complaint] p. 1819-1849; Art. 218 [State Treasury], p. 1499-1515;
Leszek Bosek, Mikołaj Wild, Europejski Trybunał Praw Człowieka. Zagadnienia ustrojowe-skarga indywidualna-skutki orzeczeń [European Court of Human Rights. Constitutional issues – individual complaint – consequences of decisions], Warszawa 2014, 273 pages;
Leszek Bosek, Mikołaj Wild, Kontrola konstytucyjności prawa. Zagadnienia ustrojowe, procesowe i materialnoprawne. Komentarz dla sędziów i pełnomocników procesowych [Constitutional review. Systemic, procedural and material issues. Commentary for judges and barristers], C.H.Beck 2014, 496 pages;
Leszek Bosek, Gwarancje godności ludzkiej i ich wpływ na polskie prawo cywilne [Guarantees of human dignity and their impact on Polish civil law], Warsaw 2012, 476 pages;
Leszek Bosek, Marek Safjan, Le droit à la vie privée et la question de l’euthanasie en Pologne [in:] Le droit de la santé: aspects nouveaux, Travaux de l’Association Henri Capitant, Journées suisses Tome LIX, Bruxelles 2012, p. 827-842;
Leszek Bosek, Bezprawie legislacyjne [Legislative unlawfulness], LexisNexis 2007, 371 pages.
Selected Extramural
Activities
- Since 2020 Member of Polish Assosiation of European Law
- Since 2018 Judge of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Poland
- 2006-2018 Counsel, Director and the President of the General Counsel to the Republic of Poland (Prokuratoria Generalna), advocacy f.eg. in the case of CJEU Grand Chamber 6 March 2018, C284/16, Achmea;
- 2011-2015 Senior legal expert in the Parliament (House of Representative – Sejm)
- 2002-2006 Law Clerk to Justice of Constitutional Tribunal
- 2008 Member of a commission on ratification of the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine
- 2002-2015 President of Academia Iuris Foundation, non-profit organisation offering free legal aid.
Laurence LWOFF, PhD
“Autonomy and protection of children in biomedicine: striking the “rights” balance”
Mrs Laurence LWOFF holds a MSc. in reproductive physiology from the University of Paris VI – Jussieu (France). She then obtained her degree in agronomy from the Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon (France) in 1986 and received her PhD in molecular biology in 1989.
She joined the Council of Europe in 1991, where she was entrusted with the responsibilities of the Secretariat of the Conventions concerning the use of animals in agriculture and science, in the Directorate of Legal Affairs. In 1999, her responsibilities were extended to biotechnology. She was the Secretary of the International Conference of the Council of Europe on Ethical Issues Arising from the Applications of Biotechnology (Oviedo, Spain, May 1999). In 2002, she joined the Bioethics Department where she has been responsible in particular for the activities on human genetics and on the protection of the human embryo and the foetus. Since 2012 she is the Secretary of the intergovernmental committee in charge of the protection of human rights in biomedicine, i.e. the Steering Committee for Human Rights in the fields of Biomedicine and Health (CDBIO). She is the Head of the new Human Rights and Biomedicine Division (DGI – Human Rights Directorate).
Prof. Tamara K. Hervey
(City University, London)
"Reshoring of health care system capacities: a European human rights issue"
Tamara K Hervey (LLB (Hons) (Glasgow), PhD (Sheffield), called-name Tammy, she/her, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, is Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law ad personam at the City Law School, City University, London.
One of the first to the field, Tamara has been researching all aspects of EU health law since the 1990s. She also publishes in comparative health law, in legal research methodologies and in legal pedagogy. She is author of 21 books and over 200 other publications. She works with a large network of academics across Europe and in North America. From 2016-2023, Tamara also worked on the effects of Brexit on health law and policy.
Tamara has advised a range of European and national entities, including the European Parliament; European Commission; the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health, Republic of Ireland; Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission; UK House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee; and the House of Lords EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee.
Programme of the 9th Conference of the European Association of Health Law Health and Fundamental Rights
September 18-20, 2024
Warsaw University, Poland
Wednesday (September 18, 2024)
PRE-CONFERENCE
8:45-12:15 Registration and Hospitality Desk
Collegium Iuridicum II, Aula 2
9:00-12:00 Young Scholar Workshop
Starting point: Old Library, Main Campus of the University of Warsaw
CONFERENCE
15:00-18:30 Registration and Hospitality Desk
Lobby of the Old Library, Main Campus of the University of Warsaw
15:30-17:00 Opening Ceremony and Opening Lecture
Old Library, Main Campus of the University of Warsaw
Opening speeches:
Rector of the University of Warsaw
Dean of the Faulty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw
President of the EAHL
President of the Conference
Opening Lecture – Commissioner of Human Rights of the Republic of Poland
17:00–18:30 Welcome Reception
Thursday (September 19, 2024)
8:30-18:00 Hospitality Desk
Lobby of the Collegium Iuridicum II, Lipowa Street
09:00–11:00 PLENARY SESSION 1
Collegium Iuridicum II, Aula 2
9:00-9:30 Keynote lecture: Professor Leszek Bosek, Fundamental rights in the case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union on the Biotech Directive
Moderator: Michał Królikowski
09:30–09:45 Dean M. Harris, Comparing fundamental rights to health care in the United States and Europe
09:45–10:00 Steven Lierman, Reliable science in the courtroom: a joint responsibility of policymaker, scientist and judge
10:00–10:15 Estelle Brosset, The scope of Article 35 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union: what does the Court say?
10:15–10:30 Janusz Roszkiewicz, When can a patient be deprived of life without his consent? Considerations in the light of the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights
10:30-11:00 Discussion
11:00–11:30 COFFEE BREAK
Lobby of the Collegium Iuridicum II, Lipowa Street
11:30–13:30 PLENARY SESSION 2
Collegium Iuridicum II, Aula 2
11:30–12:00 Keynote lecture: Professor Tamara K. Hervey, Reshoring of healthcare system capacities: a European human rights issue?
Moderator: Dobrochna Bach-Golecka
12:00–12:15 Tomasz Sroka, Contemporary trends in the protection of fundamental rights in health law: diagnosis and evaluation
12:15–12:30 Claudia Seitz, Regulation of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications: Acceptable Risks in the Light of Absolute and Relative Safety
12:30–12:45 Michał Królikowski, Calling out for death: Subjectivity in patterns of dying
12:45-13:15 Discussion
13:30-14:30 LUNCH
Lobby bar, Collegium Iuridicum II
14:30-16:00 PANELS
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 1.2
Moderator: Steven Lierman
14:30-14:45 Audrey Lebret, The contribution of the Council of Europe to the regulation of biomedical AI
14:45-15:00 Petra Holmberg, Safeguarding Fundamental Rights in Mental Health Applications in the Framework of the EU AI Act
15:00-15:15 Dominika Ewa Harasimiuk & Tomasz Braun, Synthetic Data in Healthcare Sector. The EU Regulatory Framework’s Vacuum?
15:15-15:30 Marika Mäkinen, Protecting patient integrity: challenges and benefits with informed consent in AI-assisted diagnoses
15:30-15:45 Magdalena Kogut-Czarkowska, Sharing health data under the GDPR and EHDS – can federated networks protect patients’ rights and freedoms?
15:45-16:00 Discussion
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 1.3
Moderator: Grzegorz Glanowski
14:30-14:45 Joaquin Cayón-De Las Cuevas, Drawing ethical and legal boundaries to the application of neurotechnologies: in need for a new ‘technocratic oath’
14:45-15:00 Rafał Wonicki, Is global health ethics possible?
15:00-15:15 Markus Frischhut, Patient mobility between individual and collective rights: transformation based on solidarity
15:15-15:30 Santa Slokenberga, A missing piece in cross-border healthcare? On the recognition of medical decisions
15:30-15:45 Éloïse Gennet, A One Health approach to human rights? Exploring the law of the Council of Europe
15:45-16:00 Discussion
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 1.4
Moderator: Leszek Bosek
14:30-14:45 Margot Panneel, Balancing Innovation and Protection: A Comparative and Human Rights Analysis of Medical Experimentation and Clinical Trials
14:45-15:00 Igor Milinkovic, Legal Framework of Medical Treatment and Research on Persons with Mental Disorders in Bosnia and Herzegovina
15:00-15:15 Aleksandra Trębska, Weighing risks and encouraging participation – A New Model of Protection for Clinical Trial Participants in Poland
15:15-15:30 Emilia Kaczmarek & Joanna Różyńska, Research payment, exploitation, and the rights of the participant of biomedical research
15:30-15:45 Discussion
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 2.3
Moderator: Katarzyna Syroka-Marczewska
14:30-14:45 Agnieszka Nogal, Philosophical justification of the category of Human Dignity
14:45-15:00 Sanja Stojković Zlatanović & Marta Sjeničić, Challenges of digital transition – Addressing worker’s mental health and well-being
15:00-15:15 Solvita Olsena, The Paradigm Shift Away from Coercion in Mental Health Care: The Role of National and International Courts
15:15-15:30 Merja Turunen, Adult patient’s right to self-determination and use of restrictive measures in somatic care in Finland, legal and empirical legal research – preliminary results
15:30-15:45 Discussion
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 2.4
Moderator: Dobrochna Bach-Golecka
14:30-14:45 Katarzyna Miaskowska-Daszkiewicz, Availability of medicines in non-pharmacy markets – opportunities and risks for public health
14:45-15:00 André den Exter, Improving access to orphan medicines
15:00-15:15 Marie Glinel & Aurélie Mahalatchimy, Strengthening the quality and safety of Substance of Human Origin: what impact on fundamental rights?
15:15-15:30 Rebecca Jeyaraj & Gerard Porter, To what extent does the “right to health” help support equitable access to cell and gene therapy products around the world?
15:30-15:45 Stefania Marassi & Mária Éva Földes, Deployment of in-body wearable devices in healthcare and employment: exploring the potential transformations in the European Union regulatory framework
15:45-16:00 Discussion
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 2.6
Moderator: Janusz Roszkiewicz
14:30-14:45 Morgaine Jelitko, The Right to a Healthy Child? – Preimplantation Genetic Diagnostics and Prenatal Diagnostics in the Light of International Law and European Human Rights Protection
14:45-15:00 Inesa Fausch, Is a Lab-grown Embryo a ‘Human’? Calls for Re-evaluation of Regulation of Embryo and Its Surrogates
15:00-15:15 Jan Bałdyga, Synthetic embryos and human dignity: exploring the applicability of the Oviedo Convention of 1997 in light of recent embryological experiments
15:15-15:30 Yuxin Li, What Criteria Should Be Imposed On People Who Wish To Access Assisted Reproductive Technologies? A Comparative Analysis
15:30-15:45 Discussion
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 2.8
Moderator: Michał Królikowski
14:30-14:45 Tomáš Doležal & Adam Doležal, End-of-Life Decision-Making in the Czech Republic: Toward a Greater Acknowledgment of Individual Autonomy?
14:45-15:00 Juliane Nowka, Misuse of the Lasting Power of Attorney for Healthcare Matters
15:15-15:30 Magdalena Flatscher-Thöni & Christiane Posch, Echoes of Consent: Healthcare Professionals Navigating Post-Mortem Organ Donation Conversations
15:30-15:45 Teresa Andreani, How to Forge the Right to Long-Term Care for the Dependent Elders? A Critique of the European Care Strategy
15:45-16:00 Discussion
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 3.3
Moderator: Tomasz Sroka
14:30-14:45 Radmyla Hrevtsova, Strenghening health provision in times of emergencies through law and governance: the Ukrainian experience
14:45-15:00 Robert Tabaszewski, Revisiting the Limits of Patient and Human Rights: Extraordinary Precautionary Measures in Post-COVID Healthcare
15:00-15:15 Anna-Kaisa Tuovinen, Health Law and Fundamental Rights in Tackling Syndemics
15:15-15:30 Juan-Ignacio Ochagavías Colás, Analysis of latest international initiatives to confront health emergencies: the Draft International Treaty on Pandemics and the European Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority
15:30-15:45 Andrea Parziale, Mass-scale Government-to-Business Data Sharing in an Emergency: The Role of the GDPR
15:45-16:00 Discussion
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 3.4
Moderator: Dorota Krekora-Zając
14:30-14:45 Rui M. Prista Cascão, Technological Change and Liability in Healthcare: are Clinical Guidelines the Key?
14:45-15:00 Witold Borysiak, The Interferences Between Medical Standards and Provisions of Law
15:00-15:15 Victor Schollaert, The patient’s right to consent information and the concept of “unpreparedness damage”
15:15-15:30 Paulina Wolszczak, The right to compensation for „informational negligence” in case of fetal defects
15:30-15:45 Sven Lievens, Loss of a Chance in Medical Law
15:45-15:55 Discussion
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 3.8
Moderator: Jan Lipski
14:30-14:45 Małgorzata Albe, Medical treatment of premature infants with dismal prognosis in Germany
14:45-15:00 Julia Kapelańska-Pręgowska, Access to abortion at the margins of State’s margin of appreciation
15:00-15:15 Mariya Sharkova, Patient Safety and the “unborn patient”
15:15-15:30 Jakub Valc, Anonymous gamete donation as a human rights conflict
15:30-15:45 Andrea Martani, Protecting fundamental’ rights in the context of (inter)national reproductive medicine: unresolved questions for the regulation of egg donation in Switzerland
15:45-16:00 Discussion
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 3.6
Moderator: Jacek Piecha
14:30-14:45 Paulien Walraet, Ensuring proportionality in measures imposed on healthcare professionals: the Belgian interpretation as a source of inspiration
14:45-15:00 Malwina Anna Wójcik-Suffia, The right to explanation of algorithmic decision-making in healthcare – new legal basis?
15:00-15:15 Omayma Yahyaoui-Boudiabe Procedural and substantive implications of the new regulatory proposals on liability for damages caused by defective AI systems for healthcare
15:15-15:30 Zuzanna Zapotoczna, The European Union’s influence on the organisation of healthcare services in the EU Member States
15:30-15:45 Maria Aluas & Ondine Lucaciu, Informed Consent, post-treatment risks and malpractice challenges related to dental tourism
15:45-16:00 Discussion
16:00-16:15 COFFEE BREAK
Lobby of the Collegium Iuridicum II, Lipowa Street
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 1.2
Moderator: Katarzyna Syroka-Marczewska
16:45–17:00 Anne-Marie Duguet, Frederic Savall and Emmanuelle Rial Sebbag, The Freedom to Elective Abortion Enshrined in the French Constitution: Women’s Rights Strengthened in an International Context of Regression
17:00–17:15 Maria Boratyńska, Obedience – Force – Violence. On the Direct Coercion of Medical Acts on Children and Adolescents
17:15–17:30 Discussion
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 1.3
Moderator: Tomasz Sroka
16:15-16:30 Katarzyna Sałbut, The patient’s right to information about the foreseeable consequences of using proposed and possible diagnostic and therapeutic methods
16:30-16:45 Naoual El Yattouti, Religious Dress in the Healthcare Setting: Unpacking Legal Arguments and Balancing Individual Rights
16:45-17:00 Patricia Cervera de la Cruz, Fair enough? Exploring the role of fairness in secondary uses of health data in the European Health Data Space
17:00-17:15 Discussion
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 1.4
Moderator: Agnieszka Nogal
16:15-16:30 Cato Deprez, EU’s competences and role in regulating quality in the hospital sector
16:30-16:45 Félix Delerm, Implementation of digital twins in healthcare: future-proofing the current legal framework
16:45-17:00 Miquel Díaz Hernández, Off-label use and sustainability of the healthcare system: playing with fire?
17:00-17:15 Jacek Piecha, Rethinking the right to health in transhumanism era
17:15-17:30 Discussion
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 2.3
Moderator: Leszek Bosek
16:15-16:30 Jan Lipski, The Role of Guidelines on Best Medical Practices in Determining the Standard of Due Care of Healthcare Professionals in Light of the Binding and Non-Binding Standards of the Council of Europe
16:30-16:45 Grzegorz Glanowski, Demarctation of health services from cosmetic services
16:45-17:00 Rafaels Ciekurs, Integrating telemedicine into healthcare access for patient with hearing impairment
17:00-17:15 Caroline Voithofer, PID and PGD between Bio- und Necropolitics. The Case of Austria
17:15-17:30 Discussion
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 2.4
Moderator: Joaquin Cayon-De Las Cuevas
16:15-16:30 Mette Hartlev, Patients’ rights and use of AI in the clinic – a contestability approach
16:30-16:45 Ernst Hulst, Artificial intelligence, a challenge for patients’ rights?
16:45-17:00 Sarah de Heer, AI medical devices in precision medicine in Sweden – guaranteeing quality of care through the right to health and the right to good administration
17:00-17:15 Jarosław Greser, Cybersecurity and privacy challenges of digital mental health applications
17:15-17:30 Hrefna Dögg Gunnarsdóttir, Secondary findings in light of EHDS presumed consent
17:30-17:45 Discussion
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 2.8
Moderator: Witold Borysiak
16:15-16:30 Mónica Hernández Herrero, Recent trends in litigation for lack of informed consent: the Spanish reality
16:30-16:45 Stefania Pia Perrino, Self-determination and Accountability in Italy: balancing Informed Consent in Medical Treatment and Liability
16:45-17:00 Karina Lanzellotti Saleme, Reframing Medical Malpractice: Insurance as a Catalyst for Enhancing Healthcare Quality
17:00-17:15 Eduardo Dantas, Navigating the Nuances of Informational Negligence: A Close Look at Physician-Patient Communication within Brazil’s Legal Framework
17:15-17:30 Jodie White, The Right to Health’s Failure to Guarantee Medical Treatment
17:30-17:45 Discussion
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 3.3
Moderator: Michał Królikowski
16:15-16:30 John Lombard, Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Practice and Policy: Towards the Development of a new National Policy for Ireland
16:30-16:45 Laura Šāberte & Karina Palkova, Patient’s religiously based will in the context of non-initiation of futile medical treatment – problems of the legal framework and its development in Latvia
16:45-17:00 Jerzy Bednarski & Iwona Luszczewska-Sierakowska & Jeng-You Wu, Acting Against the Will of the Patient and respecting their fundamental rights in the State of inebriety at the Hospital Emergency Department
17:00-17:15 Pia Dittke, Suicide assistance for individuals with mental illness in Germany. A criminal trap and a constitutional gap?
17:15-17:30 Discussion
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 3.4
Moderator: Janusz Roszkiewicz
16:15-16:30 Marissa Lithopoulos & Aurélie Mahalatchimy & Amy Zarzeczny, The rise of the secretome: A comparative analysis of the governance of secretome-based interventions between Canada and the European Union
16:30-16:45 Kristof Van Assche, How to guarantee equitable access to scarce medicinal products and medical equipment: a discussion of Recommendation CM/Rec(2023)1 of the Council of Europe
16:45-17:00 Kaat Van Delm, Is the EU medicinal product lifecycle adapted to the use of Real World Data? A look at the present and a (reasoned) guess as to the future
17:00-17:15 Marta Łotoczuk, Cultural dimensions of the right to health: the scope of the right to culturally appropriate healthcare
17:15-17:30 Ruoxin Su, Femtech Concerns: A Fundamental Rights Perspective through the ECHR
17:30-17:45 Discussion
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 3.8
Moderator: Dobrochna Bach-Golecka
16:15-16:30 Wenkai Li, Autonomy in the secondary use of health data for research: ethical and legal reflections
16:30-16:45 Vera Lúcia Raposo, Black is the new white: black box versus white box medicine in healthcare
16:45-17:00 Sara Roda, Confidentiality and professional secrecy in the European Health Data Space: is it dead?
17:00-17:15 Cong Yao & Danaja Fabcic Povse, Preventing Bias in Evidence-Based Health Policies in the Era of the Digital Divide: Constructing a Diversity Requirement in the EU Legal System
17:15-17:30 Iris Bakx & Emma van Gelder, Regulation of health apps and wearables
17:30-17:45 Discussion
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 3.6
Moderator: Dorota Krekora-Zając
16:15-16:30 Teodora Lalova-Spinks, Caring Patient Empowerment? The caring technology principles against the strengthened individual data control promised with the European Health Data Space
16:30-16:45 Menno Mostert, Professional secrecy and legitimising secondary use under the EHDS
16:45-17:00 Magdalena Flatscher-Thöni & Christiane Kreyer, Caring through Crisis: Ethical and Legal Challenges in Long-Term Care Facilities during a Pandemic
17:00-17:15 Yana Litins’ka, Vaccination against Covid-19 among Ukrainian refugees in Sweden: Human rights perspective on crises preparedness
17:15-17:30 Discussion
Workshop
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 2.6
16:15-17:45 Stefania Negri & Emanuele Cesta & Sandro Bonfigli & Éloïse Gennet, Fundamental Rights as a Pillar of the EU Global Health Strategy
17:45-18:00 COFFEE BREAK
Lobby of the Collegium Iuridicum II, Lipowa Street
18:00-19:00 GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE EAHL
Collegium Iuridicum II, Aula 2
20:00 GALA DINNER
Hotel Bellotto, Senatorska Street 13/15
Friday (September 20, 2024)
8:30-14:00 HOSPITALITY DESK
Collegium Iuridicum II, Lipowa Street
9:00-10:45 PLENARY SESSION 3
Collegium Iuridicum II, Aula 2
9:00–9:30 Keynote lecture: Professor Laurence Lwoff, Autonomy and protection of children in biomedicine: striking the “rights” balance”
Moderator: Agnieszka Nogal
9:30-9:45 Dobrochna Bach-Golecka, Mothers and health law
9:45-10:00 Jean McHale, Older persons’ fundamental rights to access health care: do we need a new international approach?
10:00-10:15 Tomislav Sokol, EU Pharmaceutical package: is it appropriate for ensuring equal access to medicines across the EU?
10:15-10:30 Andrea Mulligan & Joan Lalor & Linda Hogan, Conscientious Objection in Termination of Pregnancy in Ireland: Balancing Rights and Ensuring Service Provision
10:30-10:45 Discussion
10:45-11:00 COFFEE BREAK
Lobby of the Collegium Iuridicum II, Lipowa Street
11:00-12:00 POSTERS
Collegium Iuridicum II, Aula 2
- Søren Birkeland, The legal support for material rights in mental healthcare
- Roxane Delpech, Towards opening up active aid in dying in France: rethinking medical ethics in the name of patient dignity?
- Noémie Dubruel & Emmanuelle Rial-Sebbag, Virtual Human Twins For Care: in need of a fundamental rights’ assessment,
- Lisa Feriol & Emmanuelle Rial-Sebbag, Health research in the era of the European Health Data Space: challenges for autonomy and privacy
- Tom Goffin & Violette Vanscheeuwijck & Paulien Walraet, The application of the Belgian Patients’ Rights Act to vulnerable patient groups
- Pauline Rateau & Gauthier Chassang & Emmanuelle Rial-Sebbag, Integrating patients’ fundamental rights in the use of artificial intelligence enabled medical devices (AI-MD) in clinical research: the example of the HT-Advance European project
- Valentin Roby & Luc-Sylvain Gilbert & Valentin Brunel & Auxane Delage & Aurélie Mahalatchimy, Expediting marketing authorisation pathways for patients’ access to advanced therapies
- Emmanuelle Rial-Sebbag, Right to health protection, right to socialized care and non-therapeutic medicine
- Marjolein Timmers Ethical and Legal lessons learned from Research and Development of a New Technology for Genome-wide DNA Methylation Profiling
- Iwona Wrześniewska-Wal, A health care system that responds effectively to changes and is resistant to crises based on the example of developing competences and changing the roles of medical professions
12:00-12:15 COFFEE BREAK
Lobby of the Collegium Iuridicum II, Lipowa Street
12:15-13:45 WORKSHOPS
Collegium Iuridicum II, Aula 2
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 1.2
Tom Goffin & Griet Verhenneman & Teodora Lalova-Sprinks & Sylvie Tack, The patient’s right to information and generative AI
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 1.3
Joaquín Cayon-de las Cuevas & Tomislav Sokol & Markus Frischhut & André den Exter, Ethical and legal perspectives for the new European Health Data Space
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 1.4
Gabriel Armas-Cardona & Luciano Bottini Filho & Lisa Forman & Benjamin Mason Meier, The Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies: implementing human rights in a shifting global health landscape
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 2.3
Michael Ganner & Simon Laimer & Thomas Pixner & Maria-Kristina Steiner & Caroline Voithofer & Liv Vickery & Matteo Ciampa, Autonomy and decision-making
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 2.8
Hannah van Kolfschooten & Merel Spaander & Kristof Van Assche & Kaat van Delm & Hannah van Kolfschooten & Rogier Simons & Noa Vreven & Fien De Meyer, Controversial health issues in the European Court of Human Rights: recent developments
Collegium Iuridicum II, room 3.2
Andre Pereira & Radmyla Hrevtsova & Vasyl Kostytsky & Rui Cascão & Jerzy Bednarsky & Natalia Lojko & Natalia Lisnevska & Eduardo Dantas, Legal and ethical issues of using digital health and biomedical innovations: Broadening perspectives and mapping the borders
14:00 AWARDS AND CLOSING CEREMONY
Collegium Iuridicum II, Aula 2
Professor Steven Lierman & Professor Leszek Bosek
9th EAHL Conference Warsaw Young Scholars Workshop
Wednesday September 18, 2024
PROGRAMME
9:00-9:15 Welcome (plenary session): Prof. Steven Lierman (chair EAHL) and Dr. Mirko Dukovic
9:15-11:30 Panels (breakout sessions): the recommended duration of the presentations is 15’
11:30-12:00 Wrapping up (plenary session)
PANEL 1
Human Rights Approaches to Health
Chair: Prof. Tamara Hervey
- Fundamental rights as a method of inquiry: How did courts help shape the European Health Law?, Dr Mirko Đuković, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, European University Institute, Italy;
- The European healthcare system standard: legal framework, Zuzanna Zapotoczna, PhD Candidate, Jagiellonian University, Poland;
- Anonymous gamete donation as a human rights conflict, Jakub Valc, PhD Student, Masaryk University, Czech Republic;
- Improving medical decision-making within a super-diverse society in light of the right to culturally appropriate healthcare, Marta Łotoczuk, PhD Researcher, University of Antwerp, Belgium;
- How to forge the right to long-term care for the dependent elders? A critique of the European Care Strategy, Teresa Adreani, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy.
PANEL 2
Data rights and healthcare
Chair: Prof. Santa Slokenberga
- Data for Discounts: Navigating Privacy Rights and Solidarity in Switzerland’s Health Insurance Incentives, Dylan Hofmann, PhD student at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland;
- Real World Data in the medicinal product lifecycle: in search of a balance between the right to safety and the right to innovation, Kaat Van Delm, PhD Researcher, Leuven Centre for Public Law, Belgium
- Fair enough? Exploring the role of fairness in secondary uses of health data in the European Health Data Space, Patricia Cervera de la Cruz (PhD Researcher), Ghent University, Belgium
- Health data sharing for research and innovation in Europe and France: legal issues for governing secondary use, Lisa Feriol, PhD student, University of Toulouse, France;
- Digital technology in developing human medicines: legal and ethical implications, Noémie Dubruel, PhD student, Institut Maurice Hauriou, Université de Toulouse II, Capitole & UMR 1295 CERPOP Inserm équipe BIOETHICS, Université de Toulouse III and Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.
PANEL 3
Medical practice and healthcare
Chair: Prof. Steven Lierman
- Self-determination and Accountability in Italy: balancing Informed Consent in Medical Treatment and Liability, Dr Stefania Pia Perrino, Postdoctoral Fellow, Università degli Studi di Milano – Bicocca, Italy;
- Should age determine the possibility of becoming a parent?, Marta Puścion, PhD student, University of Warsaw, Poland.
- Who decides your access to medical care? Prioritization of medical procedures – legal basis and the real-life, Jaana Kovalainen, Katariina Kilpivaara, PhD students, University of Lapland, and Oulu University Hospital, University of Oulu, Finland;
- Responsibility as a legal tool in the fight against non-communicable diseases, Félix Delerm, PhD candidate, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland;
- In search of a solid legal framework for qualitative healthcare services in hospitals, Cato Deprez, PhD researcher, KU Leuven, Belgium
PANEL 4
Regulating medical products
Chair:
- Surveillance of software as medical devices, Astrid Pilottin, PhD student, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland;
- Automated decision-making systems in precision medicine, Sarah de Heer, PhD student, Lund University, Sweden;
- EU Medical Device Regulation – the level of convergence and impact on regulatory complexity, Prof. Bruno Nikolić, University of Ljubljana, Slovenija;
- Regulations on the use of medicines outside Marketing Authorization in the European Union, and how they can help access novel treatments to patients in need, Miguel Díaz Hernández, Doctoral Researcher, University of Helsinki, Finland;
PANEL 5
Emerging technologies regulation and healthcare
Chair: Prof. Magdalena Flatscher-Thöni
- Legal governance of emerging health technologies from a human rights perspective, Renee Dekker, PhD student, University of Twente, the Netherlands;
- A prospective legal framework for brain organoids, embryoids and chimeras, Adrien Bottacci, Phd Student, Aix-Marseille Université, France;
- In search of legally binding standards in EU evidence-based policy-making – reestablishing free movement after lockdowns in the EU Digital Covid Certificates regulations, Danaja Fabčič Povše, Belgium;
- Green hospitals in Poland as an example of sustainable healthcare, Karolina Wierzbicka, University of Lodz, Poland.
PANEL 6
Challenges in Artificial Intelligence Regulation and Healthcare
Chair: Prof. Joaquin Cayon De Las Cuevas
- Addressing algorithmic discrimination in healthcare through an intersectional lens – the EU perspective, M.A. Wojcik-Suffia, PhD Candidate, University of Bologna, Italy;
- Protection of fundamental rights and Artificial Intelligence in health: a comparative analysis of the impact assessment as a legal tool, Sara Ruiz-González, Legal Adviser at the Ministry of Health of Cantabria and Predoctoral researcher at IDIVAL-University of Cantabria, Spain;
- Regulating AI Transparency in Healthcare, Marie Kohoutova, PhD Candidate, Charles University, Czech Republic;
- Protecting patient integrity: challenges and benefits with informed consent in AI-assisted diagnoses, Marika Mäkinen, PhD Student, Lund University, Sweden;
- Informed consent and the utilization of artificial intelligence in the delivery of healthcare, Monika Kupis, PhD Candidate, Jagiellonian University, Poland.