International Conference on End of Life: Law, Ethics, Policy and Practice 2014 (ICEL 2014)

The Queensland University of Technology Health Law Research Centre, Dalhousie Health Law Institute and Tsinghua Health Law Research Centre are presenting the International Conference on End of Life: Law, Ethics, Policy and Practice 2014 (ICEL 2014). 



The conference will be hosted by the Queensland University of Technology Health Law Research Centre in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia from 13-15 August 2014.  The Conference will provide a global forum at which health law scholars, bioethicists, legal and health practitioners, and health law and bioethics institutions can meet to discuss and present on law, ethics, policy and practice relating to the end of life, in particular around the conference’s four sub-themes:

1. Euthanasia and assisted suicide


2. Withholding and withdrawal of potentially life-sustaining treatment (e.g. advance care planning, futile treatment)


3. Terminal sedation and palliative care


4. Determination of death and organ and tissue donation.

Keynote conference speakers include:

• Professor Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University and Laureate Professor, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne


• Professor Sheila McLean, Emeritus Professor of Law and Ethics in Medicine, Glasgow University


• Professor Jocelyn Downie, Professor in the Faculties of Law and Medicine, Dalhousie Health Law Institute, Dalhousie University


• Assistant Professor Charles Camosy, Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics, Fordham University


• Dr Peter Saul, Senior Intensive Care Specialist, John Hunter Hospital