Postgraduate Course in Medical Law

This course aimed to provide its audience with specialized legal training in medical law. 

The first part of the course - general part - consists of modules aimed at framing the Law of Medicine in the major dogmatic areas of Law: Constitutional, Administrative, Civil, Criminal, Labour, Confidentiality and Data Protection Law and Ethics Commissions. Special attention was paid to patients' rights and to civil, criminal and disciplinary liability of doctors.

In the second - the special part - multiple problematic domains of this legal branch were addressed in detail: Arbitrary Medical-Surgical Treatments and Interventions, H.I.V. and AIDS, Drug Addiction, Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy, Assisted Procreation, Surrogacy, Cloning, Mental Health, Clinical Trials, Prenatal Diagnosis, Harvesting and Transplanting Organs and Tissues, Transsexualism, the Medical Expert, Knowledge of the Human Genome and Biotechnology Patents.