Civil and Human Rights on the Internet

Bioethics & Biolaw is a Labrys research initiative dedicated to examining the evolving intersections between biomedical innovation, ethical governance, and regulatory frameworks. The project investigates how emerging technologies, clinical practices, and data-driven health systems challenge traditional notions of patient autonomy, consent, dignity, and rights—while also creating new legal and institutional demands.

Positioned at the frontier of research ethics, clinical governance, and health-related public policy, Bioethics & Biolaw seeks to map the systemic implications of biomedical progress. This includes analyzing ethical review processes, liability structures, data protection regimes, cross-border research collaboration, and the legal architecture surrounding experimentation, therapeutics, digital health, and biotechnologies.

Through comparative analysis, case studies, and interdisciplinary methodologies, the project aims to support institutions in designing more robust, transparent, and human-centered frameworks for responsible research. Outputs include white papers, regulatory briefs, academic articles, and methodological guidance for ethics committees, researchers, healthcare organizations, and public agencies.

Ultimately, Bioethics & Biolaw advances Labrys’ mission to integrate ethical reasoning, evidence-based regulation, and systemic thinking—ensuring that scientific innovation aligns with societal values, safeguards patient rights, and strengthens the legitimacy of health governance in an era of rapid change.

Web 2.0 began in a world of zero marginal cost for information distribution and where the emergence of aggregators enabled user-generated content to flourish in content platforms. From that moment on, freedom of expression and information gained a stream of new nuances with complexity and concrete micro and macro impacts on people's lives. 

From identity and belonging to the bread and butter of the productive sector to the fate of democracies, how we deal with the right to free speech has never been so critical to everyday life. The Freedom of Expression and Information Online project aims to untangle the impacts of new technology on these basic fundamental rights and their repercussions on everything else: from business to politics and back to the future of information technology.