Privacy, Property and Personality
<p> The linking of the topics of privacy, property, and personality, including ideas of trespass and monopoly control, has so far been severely under-explored, yet American experience shows that property concepts can be abused to close down access to cultural and economic life and to narrow the public domain. The <a href="http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/projects/view.aspx?id=5">Privacy, Property and Personality</a> project examined these three concepts - alone and in combination - to determine and infuence the future of their protection by legal means.
Recent Submissions
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The Right Not to Know: An Autonomy Based Approach – A Response to Andorno
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2004)The author comments on the question of a right not to know genetic information, in a response to Dr Adorno. The article discusses similaries shared between Laurie and Adorno, with the former differentiating his views by ... -
Privacy and Property? Multi-level Strategies for Protecting Personal Interests in Genetic Material
(Policy Research Initiative, Canada, 2003)The paper builds on earlier medico-legal work by Laurie on privacy in relation to genetic material. In this chapter, the author discusses not only Laurie's views as 'pro-privacy' but the limitations of privacy, particularly ... -
The Autonomy of Others: Reflections on the Rise and Rise of Patient Choice in Contemporary Medical Law
(Ashgate Publishing, 2006)The author, Laurie, provides an account of the writings of Professor (Emiritus) of Forensic Medicine and Honorary Fellow, Professor J Kenyon Mason. In this chapter, an extract from Professor Mason's Festschrift, Laurie ... -
Challenging Medical-Legal Norms: The Role of Autonomy, Confidentiality and Privacy in Protecting Individual and Familial Group Rights in Genetic Information
(Taylor and Francis, 2001)In this article, Laurie discusses the impact of generating genetic information, and what the consequences are of this for individuals, and family members, whose familial genetic information is shared. The authors considers ... -
Should There Be An Obligation of Disclosure of Origin of Genetic Resources in Patent Applications? Learning Lessons from Developing Countries
(AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, 2005)The article discusses whether there should be an obligation of disclosure of origin of genetic resources in patent applications. In particular, Laurie comments on the evolving relations of the intellectual property world ... -
Privacy, Property or Permission? Need Our Models for Regulating Personal Genetic Material Be Mutually Exclusive?
(Acta Press, 2002)The argument considers in favour of the extension of property rights to individuals in respect of their genetic materials and information derived from those materials. Laurie suggests that existing medico-legal paradigms ... -
Personal Autonomy and the Right to Treatment: A Note on R (on the application of Burke) v General Medical Council
(Edinburgh University Press, 2005)Our first reading of Burke was in The Times when one’s immediate reaction was to question the precise nature of Munby J’s judgment – were it and its consequences directed to the specific problems of providing and withdrawing ... -
Patenting and the Human Body
(Oxford University Press, 2004)In this extract from "Principles of Medical Law", Laurie considers the current state of play regarding the influence on medical law of patent law and patent rights. Laurie goes on to consider possible restrictions and ... -
Marilyn Monroe, Posh Spice and Me: Personality, Property and Privacy
(International Society for Law and Technology (ISLAT), 2002)The paper discusses the impact that advances in technology, specifically the ability to capture an image using photographic media, has raised questions: legal, moral and ethical, over the use and exploitation of such ... -
Protecting Privacy
(W Green, 2004)The article discusses the impact of Article 8 of the European Court of Human Rights which recognises a right to privacy. This is contrasted against extensions to the law concerning breach of confidence. -
Protecting privacy: Campbell v MGN Newspapers
(W Green, 2004)The article examines the impact of Article 8 of the European Court of Human Rights and the resulting push from breach of confidence towards privacy actions. -
Searching for Privacy in a Mixed Jurisdiction
(Tulane University Law School, 2006)The article examines the individual’s right to privacy, with particular reference to its protection against actors other than the State. The English model is provided by the Common Law on breach of confidence; the Civilian ...
