4th edition of the Medical Law Forum – Warsaw, May 22-23th, 2026 r.
Note
Call for papers: March 22nd, 2026 r.
Attendance registration: May 21st, 2026 r.
Registration form: https://forms.gle/BKEcvjddpWmmfgJ19
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at: forum@przegladprawamedycznego.pl
We invite you to the 4th edition of Medical Law Forum, during which theoreticians and practitioners will meet again to discuss medicine, law and their intersections
The Medical Law Forum is an annual scientific conference with a long tradition, the first of its kind in the country, organized since 1999 and always inextricably linked to the activities of the scientific journal Law and Medicine - now the Medical Law Quarterly. The two ventures interact with each other, contributing to the scientific potential of the consideration of medical law and medical ethics. They serve to exchange experiences between doctors, lawyers and philosophers, and foster creative building of interdisciplinary bridges and enrichment of medical-legal thought, as well as in-depth discussions.
The aim of the conference is a comprehensive exchange of legal-ethical-medical ideas on a shared academic platform, and the building of an intellectual community that transcends divisions of professional and academic interests. We hope to welcome representatives of various medical communities, including higher education institutions, as well as lawyers from different academic centers and professional groups.
This time we are taking up the sensitive issue of both factual and legal access to modern diagnostic and therapeutic methods and to the latest medicines. We invite reflections on the unjust restriction of access to certain treatments despite the existence of medical indications and (even, though not always) sufficient funding. We will discuss emergency (compassionate) access to treatment, drug programs, advanced diagnostics, the differences between established and predictable treatment and treatment that is in such cases assigned the status of an experiment and the consequences that follow; the status of a “life-saving” procedure enabling an expedited review of an experimental protocol; and the use of medicinal products for cosmetic purposes and the legal implications. We look forward to ideas for lawfully overcoming unjust administrative barriers, to proposals for correcting the misinterpretation of regulations by authorities, and to opinions on changes in legal classifications that would properly streamline procedures so that they serve their purpose instead of making life more difficult and unduly prolonging access to necessary treatment.
The organizers have right to select abstracts on the basis of merit and compatibility with the intended scope of the topic.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at: forum@przegladprawamedycznego.pl
Venue: Medical University of Warsaw, conference room (level -1) at Children’s Clinical Hospital UCC MUW,
ul. Żwirki i Wigury 63a, Warsaw
Fee: Registration and attendance is free of charge
Organizers:
- Warszawski Uniwersytet Medyczny
- Interdyscyplinarna Pracownia Prawa Karnego Medycznego i Farmaceutycznego (WPiA UW)
- Komitet Bioetyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Under the honorary patronage of the Rector of Warsaw Medical University - prof. dr hab. Rafał Krenke
Organizing committee:
- dr hab. Maria Boratyńska, prof. ucz. - Head of the Comittee
- mgr Krzysztof Ślaski - Secretary of the Comittee
- mgr Aleksander Wiaderek
- mgr Michał Kropiwnicki
- mgr Ryszard Przewoźniak
Scientific Council:
- dr hab. Maria Boratyńska, prof. ucz (WUM, UW, Komitet Bioetyki PAN)
- dr hab. Przemysław Konieczniak (Interdyscyplinarna Pracownia Prawa Karnego Medycznego i Farmaceutycznego WPiA UW)
- dr Joanna Różyńska (Komitet Bioetyki PAN)
Patronage: Medical Law Quarterly