Time and date
Monday 16 March and Tuesday 17 March 2026, 9am - 5pm
Venue
Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Oxford, OX2 6GG
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Organisers
TORCH Medical Humanities and Uehiro Oxford Institute
Programme - the timings will be announced shortly
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Welcome
César Palacios-González (Uehiro Oxford Institute) & Alberto Giubilini (Uehiro Oxford Institute – Medical Humanities)
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The Mexican Legal System
María Rebeca Alcaide Cruz (Mexican Senate) – Remote presentation
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Euthanasia in Mexico
Samara Martínez Montaño (Universidad La Salle)
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The Role of Conscientious Objection in Euthanasia Legislation
Alberto Giubilini (Uehiro Oxford Institute)
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Assisted dying, disability and voluntariness under social injustice
Esther Braun (Potsdam University) – Remote presentation
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How (not) to compare AD practice and proposals between countries
Prof Dominic Wilkinson (Uehiro Oxford Institute)
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Euthanasia Legislation and the Equality of Disabled People
Heloise Robinson (Faculty of Law, Oxford)
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The right to be protected from suicide
Jonathan Herring (Faculty of Law, Oxford)
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The Most Popular Kind of Argument for Legalising Assisted Dying and why it Doesn’t Work
Iain Brassington (Manchester University)
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Registration
Registration via Eventbrite will open soon
Description
Whilst the UK’s House of Lords is busy scrutinising the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, in Mexico there are at least three different legislative proposals seeking to legalise euthanasia at the federal level. Against this backdrop, this two-day workshop brings together Mexican and UK scholars and practitioners to pursue two closely connected aims: first, to examine the ethical and legal questions raised by the proposed euthanasia frameworks in the UK and Mexico, paying attention to their similarities, divergences, broader implications, and what they might learn from each other. Second, to move beyond immediate legislative debates in order to ask a more fundamental question—what, if anything, makes for good euthanasia legislation.
