Nov 19, 2015 | Bioethics, Blog, Healthcare Law and Ethics, Law
Alex Mullock and Catherine Stanton, co-editors of the newly launched festschrift, reflect on the impact of Professor Brazier’s scholarship on healthcare law and practice. Very few academics come to be described as pioneers in their field but Professor Margaret...
Nov 15, 2015 | Bioethics, Blog, Healthcare Law and Ethics, Human Rights, International Law, Law
Paul Skowron reflects on one of the challenges presented by the UNCRPD. ‘There is no necessary connection between what you can judge the plant “needs” and what you want’ -GEM Anscombe, ‘Modern Moral Philosophy’ (1958) 33 Philosophy 1, 6 Introduction This...
Oct 7, 2015 | Bioethics, Blog, EU Law, Family Law, Law, Regulation
Ruth Lamont & Claire Fenton-Glynn on practical issues of cooperation in cross-national care proceedings and an upcoming workshop. Taking a child into the public care of a Local Authority is one of the most severe forms of state interference in family life, but...
Aug 20, 2015 | Bioethics, Criminology, Healthcare Law and Ethics, Human Rights, Law
Alex Mullock and Sara Fovargue introduce the key themes from their new book on the ‘medical exception’ in law. In The Legitimacy of Medical Treatment: What Role for the Medical Exception? (Routledge: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138819634/)...
Jul 16, 2015 | Bioethics, Environment, Healthcare Law and Ethics, Regulation
Professor Søren Holm invites us to consider the ethical challenges facing the Danish public health authorities in tackling MRSA Stigmatising somebody is a bad thing to do. It marks them out as ‘other’ and links them to negative stereotypes and characteristics, and may...
Jun 24, 2015 | Bioethics, Healthcare Law and Ethics, Law
Alex Ruck Keene considers the ramifications of the recognition and enforcement of foreign protective measures for adults with impairments within the English legal system. In Re PA, PB and PC [2015] EWCOP 38, Baker J has conducted a detailed analysis...
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