Timo Minssen

Why should partners from LAW join our network?

Timo MinssenLaw must not only promote, enable, and govern change, but also incorporate the change within legal frameworks.

For the legal profession this also requires the development of new skills and to gain more consciousness and knowledge about inclusiveness and the ecological consequences of legal research, advice, decisions, and legislation in a great variety of sectors, including the health and life sciences.

The key is to work for solutions that help to tackle the social and environmental problems and support the greater good from a One Health perspective and in accordance with the UN Sustainability goals.

Resisting threats to the “rule of law”, access to the legal system and justice as well as respect for human rights are also vital to achieve this aim.

Collaboration and challenges

Moreover, law and lawyers must become much better informed and engage in interdisciplinary research and collaboration to better meet the grand challenges of our time.

These include antimicrobial resistance, pandemic preparedness, climate change, the need for better tech transfer and access, as well as the promises and perils of new game-changing technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, swarm learning, genome editing and quantum technology.

Through Center of Bioinnovation Law (CeBIL) were are involved in many of these areas since it specializes in ethico-legal and broader social science research in the frontier of health and life science innovation - and we see the need for employee at LAW to involve in interdisciplinary research networks as this one.

MY OWN RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE THE BELOW TOPICS RELEVANT FOR THE NETWORK:

  • Legal frameworks supporting more inclusive clinical trials
  • Legal solutions and regulatory interventions to support the fight against antimicrobial resistance
  • One Health approaches must be supported by the law
  • Fair access and pricing of essential medicines through regulatory toolboxes
  • Incentivizing the development of sustainable technologies through regulatory pathways, sandboxes, incentives and rewards.
  • Sanctions to protect the environment
  • Regulatory frameworks for governing sustainable carbon emission trading