European Council of Legal Medicine (ECLM)

The ECLM is the official body dealing with matters relating to the discipline of Legal Medicine in Europe. It deals with all scientific, educational and professional matters pertaining to the discipline on a European level. The persons professing to be specialists in the discipline of forensic and legal medicine are medically qualified persons involved in the investigation, evaluation and education of unexpected and/or unnatural deaths and bodily harm within the framework of the legal system and/or in the teaching of the specialty.