Co-Chair
Cécile
Théard-Jallu

Co-Chair
Anne Walsh

Healthcare and Life Sciences Law Committee

The Healthcare and Life Sciences Law Committee is rooted in legal issues arising within healthcare sectors throughout the world as well as affiliated interest areas within the life sciences arena. In this regard, it is concerned with those fields of science that involve the scientific study of living organisms, with a special focus on all aspects of healthcare law.

About the Committee

The Healthcare and Life Sciences Law Committee is rooted in legal issues arising within healthcare sectors throughout the world as well as affiliated interest areas within the life sciences arena. In this regard, it is concerned with those fields of science that involve the scientific study of living organisms, with a special focus on all aspects of healthcare law, including such areas as medicine law, intellectual property, biotech, bioethics, regulatory issues and scientific developments, on a worldwide basis.

The Healthcare and Life Sciences Law Committee is a fast-growing committee with a dynamic and diverse membership across the globe.

The challenges the industry is facing today, a growing competitiveness and regulatory changes demand that we work together to deepen and develop this area of practice with a prominent place in our environment. This is essential to provide our clients with services rendered by highly trained quality professionals.

In this regard, the committee provides a forum of discussion among health and life Science lawyers, and aims to provide regular updates of important changes in this ground. This allows transversality of knowledge and experience, making use of the benefits of globalization and allowing that the developments and accomplishments obtained by those who exercise their profession in countries where life Science practice is more advanced are seized by those who have just started their journey in this area.

This exchange of knowledge and experiences will be at its height in the conferences and seminars organised by our committee within the IBA, or in the events in which our committee participates. The exchange enriches those who participate and directly collaborates with development and professionalisation of the practice area at the global level.

Forthcoming conferences and webinars View All Conferences

Publications

The regulatory framework of plant-based food in Brazil

The article addresses the regulatory framework of plant-based food in Brazil, considering the existence of more than one responsible authority for the regulation of food products and the current nonexistence of specific rules for plant-based food. Despite the lack of specific regulation there have been some initiatives to regulate plant-based products. This is mainly due to innovations in the food market arising from new technologies, and the need to provide clear and adequate information in order to reduce the asymmetry of information in the plant-based food market.

Released on Nov 02, 2023

How the Metaverse addresses supply chain challenges for the healthcare and life science sector

Assistance should be provided to supply chain challenges in the Healthcare & Life Science Sector through the use of new technologies, and to make the supply chain more effective and fail-safe through the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The European Union wants to ensure that AI systems are safe, transparent, traceable, non-discriminatory and environmentally friendly. Therefore, the existing legal issues shall be embedded in a new legal framework to ensure legal certainty. The institutions of the European Union aim at adopting a common AI law by the end of this year.

Released on Nov 02, 2023

Telemedicine and health e-documentation legislation is finally on the horizon in the Czech Republic

Telemedicine, despite being used in practice, was not explicitly and specifically addressed in Czech law. However, new legislation to introduce the concept of telemedicine into the Czech legal framework is now on the horizon.

Released on Nov 02, 2023

Obstacles to healthcare AI: legal issues relating to the increasing use of AI in healthcare and medical technologies

The impact of artificial intelligence (AI) in the healthcare market are becoming increasingly more pronounced, indicating a turning point in modern medical practice. For example, in areas such as diagnosis, some machine learning tools have been shown to be more accurate in identifying pancreatic cysts harbouring cancer or at risk of cancer, than conventional clinical and imaging criteria alone, demonstrating the potential for AI to reduce costs and current rates of morbidity.

Released on Nov 02, 2023

Projects

IBA Healthcare and Life Science Law Committee telemedicine survey

The Healthcare and Life Sciences Law Committee has produced a new comparative legal guide covering the highly relevant topic of telemedicine across 54 countries. This guide is intended to offer practitioners and industry users easy access to the relevant applicable rules. Each jurisdiction answers the most frequently raised questions in relation to telemedicine.