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This book discusses the possibilities for the use of international
human rights law (and specifically, international biomedical laws
related to the protection of human rights and the human genome) to
provide a guiding framework for the future regulation of genetic
modifications applied to human embryos and other precursor
materials, when these are made with the aim of implanting a
genetically altered embryo in a woman. The significance and
timeliness of the work derives from the recent availability of
CRISPR/ Cas9 and other gene editing tools, and from lacunae in
international law regarding the legality of embryo modification
with these tools and appropriate governance structures for the
oversight of resulting practices. The emergence of improved genome
editing tools like CRISPR/Cas9, holds the promise of eradicating
genetic diseases in the near future. But its possible future
applications with Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) raises a
plethora of legal and ethical concerns about "remaking" future
human beings. The work aims to address an urgent call, to embed
these rising concerns about biomedical advancements into the
fundamental tailoring of legal systems. Suitable regulatory
approaches, coupled with careful reflection of global biomedical
laws and individual constitutional systems must be explored. The
Book analyzes the impact of reproductive biomedical technologies on
the legal and ethical dimensions of regulatory frameworks in
selected constitutional systems like the US, the UK, Australia,
Malaysia and Thailand. Employing a comparative law methodology, the
work reveals a dynamic intersection between legal cultures,
socio-philosophical reasoning and the development of a human
rights-based framework in bio-political studies. Navigating towards
a truly internationalized biomedical approach to emerging
technologies, it presents an understanding why a renegotiation and
reinvigoration of a contemporary and "new" universal shared values
system in the international human rights discourse is now
necessary.
This book discusses the possibilities for the use of international
human rights law (and specifically, international biomedical laws
related to the protection of human rights and the human genome) to
provide a guiding framework for the future regulation of genetic
modifications applied to human embryos and other precursor
materials, when these are made with the aim of implanting a
genetically altered embryo in a woman. The significance and
timeliness of the work derives from the recent availability of
CRISPR/ Cas9 and other gene editing tools, and from lacunae in
international law regarding the legality of embryo modification
with these tools and appropriate governance structures for the
oversight of resulting practices. The emergence of improved genome
editing tools like CRISPR/Cas9, holds the promise of eradicating
genetic diseases in the near future. But its possible future
applications with Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) raises a
plethora of legal and ethical concerns about "remaking" future
human beings. The work aims to address an urgent call, to embed
these rising concerns about biomedical advancements into the
fundamental tailoring of legal systems. Suitable regulatory
approaches, coupled with careful reflection of global biomedical
laws and individual constitutional systems must be explored. The
Book analyzes the impact of reproductive biomedical technologies on
the legal and ethical dimensions of regulatory frameworks in
selected constitutional systems like the US, the UK, Australia,
Malaysia and Thailand. Employing a comparative law methodology, the
work reveals a dynamic intersection between legal cultures,
socio-philosophical reasoning and the development of a human
rights-based framework in bio-political studies. Navigating towards
a truly internationalized biomedical approach to emerging
technologies, it presents an understanding why a renegotiation and
reinvigoration of a contemporary and "new" universal shared values
system in the international human rights discourse is now
necessary.
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