Legal Aspects of the Human Genome Project: Reflections on the Bilbao Conference

Reports on the International Workshop on Legal Aspects of the Human Genome Project, held in Bilbao, Spain, on 24‐26 May 1993, and attended by leading scientists, administrators, lawyers and academics, and by James Watson who discovered DNA′s double helix. Briefly outlines contributions by various speakers covering such topics as; the right to confidentiality in the use of genetic information; culpability for criminality; patents and intellectual property; insurance law; legal limits on genetic experimentation; identification by genetic testing;and labour relations.