As developments in human genetics proceed apace,the regulation of genetic research and its applications is set to represent one of the major legal challenges of the next century. At every turn - in the fields of medicine and commerce, in insurance and employment, in the family and even in the criminal justice system - advances in human genetics threaten to transform our understanding of ourselves and the basis upon which we relate to one another. This special issue of the Modern Law Review addresses a range of key issues - conceptual, ethical, political and practical - arising from the regulatory challenge confronting the law in the face of the genetic revolution.
A commission for the 21st century, Colin Campbell; regulating science,
Julia Black; does genetics need the law?, Julian Kinderlerer; human rights,
human dignity, and human genetics, Deryck Beyleveld and Roger Brownsword;
medical interventions in the human genome, Sheila McLean; insurance and
genetics - the current state of play, Onora O'Neill; criminal law and
criminal responsibility, Celia Wells; genetics and the family, Ruth Deech;
genetics, property, and personality, Alain Pottage.
Roger Brownsword is Professor of English Law at King's College London. W.R.Cornish is Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Magdalene College.
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