Outputs (110)

The Concept of Human Rights in the UDHR and the Rule of Law for the World Today (2023)
Book Chapter

Moral Interests, Privacy, and Medical Research (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines the relationship between the values of research and privacy in the context of medical research on patient data. An analytical framework is developed by interpreting the conception of privacy advanced in the jurisprudence of the... Read More about Moral Interests, Privacy, and Medical Research.

The Concept of Human Rights in the UDHR and the Rule of Law for the World Today (2023)
Book Chapter

Law at the Frontiers of Biomedicine: Creating, Enhancing and Extending Human Life (2023)
Book

The Future of Heritable Genome Editing: Law and Equality (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Some Human Rights and Equality Issues Raised by the Genome Editing of Embryos (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Future of Heritable Genome Editing (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Understanding Ethics: Bioethics and AI (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Legal Academia (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Medical Law and Ethics (2020)
Book

Tony Bland as a 'Novel Being' (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Bioethics by Committee (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Revisiting Landmark Cases in Medical Law (2018)
Book

No Uncertain Terms (2018)
Journal Article

Medical Law and Ethics (2017)
Book

Ethical Rationalism and the Law. (2017)
Book

What role does reason play in determining what, if anything, is morally right? What role does morality play in law? Perhaps the most controversial answer to these fundamental questions is that reason supports a supreme principle of both morality and... Read More about Ethical Rationalism and the Law..

Non-invasive Prenatal Testing: Ethical Issues (2017)
Report

Human Cloning Activity Pack (2017)
Other

Teaching Controversial Issues: A Law-in-Action Workshop on Stem Cell Research for Post-16 Students (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Stem Cell Research Activity Pack (2017)
Other

Canada’s Role in Advancing Transplantation and Donation: Ethics and Policy (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Ethics Activity Pack (2017)
Other

Revisiting Landmark Cases in Medical Law: R v Adams (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Using a Moot to Develop Students’ Understanding of Human Cloning and Statutory Interpretation (2017)
Journal Article

This article reports and analyses the method and findings from a 3-year interdisciplinary project investigating how the medium of law can support understanding of socio-scientific issues. Law represents one of the most important means by which societ... Read More about Using a Moot to Develop Students’ Understanding of Human Cloning and Statutory Interpretation.

Some Comments on Developmental Thresholds and their Moral and Policy Significance (2017)
Book Chapter

EU Marketing Authorisation of Orphan Medicinal Products and Its Impact on Related Research (2017)
Journal Article

Over the last 15 years, there has been a steady increase in the development of orphan medicinal products (OMPs). This raises an important question: What impact does the EU marketing authorisation of an OMP have on related research? This article estab... Read More about EU Marketing Authorisation of Orphan Medicinal Products and Its Impact on Related Research.

Advance Refusals and the Personal Identity Objection (2017)
Book Chapter

Some individuals make advance refusals of medical treatment to take effect when they anticipate having lost the ability to make contemporaneous decisions. Attempts to give effect to advance refusals present two challenges. The first challenge is ensu... Read More about Advance Refusals and the Personal Identity Objection.

The Past, Present and Future of Ethical Rationalism (2017)
Book Chapter

Using a Moot to Develop Students' Understanding of Human Cloning and Statutory Interpretation (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Some Comments on Developmental Thresholds and their Moral and Policy Significance (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Nuffield Council on Bioethics’ work on NIPT so far (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Using Law to Develop Post-16 Students’ Understanding of Stem Cell Research (2015)
Other

Developing Understanding of Stem Cell Research: Results of a Law-in-action Workshop with Post-16 Students (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Advance Refusals and the Personal Identity Objection (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Contemporaneous and Advance Requests: The Fight for Rights at the End of Life (2015)
Book Chapter

The Ethics of Stem Cell Research (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Medical Law and Ethics. (2014)
Book

This fourth edition has been restructured, introduces new pedagogical features, expands discussion of mental health law and covers recent legal developments including the recent Supreme Court decisions of Aintree and Nicklinson. The completion of the... Read More about Medical Law and Ethics..

The Human Rights Act and the Doctrine of Precedent (2014)
Journal Article

Conflicts between domestic precedents and subsequent decisions of the European Court of Human Rights have resulted in the lower courts following prior domestic decisions even when convinced that they will be overruled on appeal. The standard interpre... Read More about The Human Rights Act and the Doctrine of Precedent.

The Human Rights Act and the Doctrine of Precedent (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Bringing Stem Cell Research to Clinical Application (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Legally and Ethically Addressing the Shortage of Human Gametes (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Acquiring and Allocating Human Gametes (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Emergency Research: Law & Policy in the UK (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Emergency Research and the Interests of Participants (2012)
Journal Article

The UK Clinical Trials Regulations were amended in 2006 and 2008 to facilitate research on medicinal products administered in emergency situations. The Regulations, which implement the EU Clinical Trials Directive, had previously required prior conse... Read More about Emergency Research and the Interests of Participants.

The Value of Bodily Material: Acquiring and Allocating Human Gametes (2012)
Journal Article

The UK is facing increasing demand for sperm and eggs for use in medical treatment and research. The disparity between supply and demand has led a number of UK bodies to recommend the adoption of a national donation system, at least with regard to ga... Read More about The Value of Bodily Material: Acquiring and Allocating Human Gametes.

Donor Autonomy and the Allocation of Donated Organs for Transplantation (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Research Ethics in Biomedicine: Commercialisation and Commodification (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Directed donation and ownership of human organs (2011)
Journal Article

This paper explores the issue of donation of organs from deceased donors for transplantation into a specified recipient. It argues that proper account should be taken of the principles underlying the Human Tissue Act 2004, which grant the donor a for... Read More about Directed donation and ownership of human organs.

Medical Law and Ethics (2011)
Book

This interdisciplinary text seeks to advance understanding of medical law by application of a moral and contextual framework initially outlined in the first chapter and, in the process, seeks to demonstrate the need for a moral epistemology of the ty... Read More about Medical Law and Ethics.

What's Interesting About Medical Law? (2010)
Other

Directed Donation and Ownership of Human Organs (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Deceased Organ Donation: Conditional and Directed Donation (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Confidentiality and Data Protection (2010)
Book Chapter

Defending Moral Precaution as a Solution to the Problem of Other Minds: A Reply to Holm and Coggon (2010)
Journal Article

This article responds to Holm & Coggon (2009) 22 Ratio Juris 295–309, which criticises a thesis advanced and defended in earlier (joint and sole authored) work . This ‘precautionary thesis’ is re-expressed and developed to show that Holm & Coggon’s c... Read More about Defending Moral Precaution as a Solution to the Problem of Other Minds: A Reply to Holm and Coggon.

Response to the Stem Cell Conundrum and Mapping Global Distributions of hES Cell Lines (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

International stem cell environments: a world of difference. (2009)
Journal Article

Consent and informational responsibility (2009)
Journal Article

The notion of “consent” is frequently referred to as “informed consent” to emphasise the informational component of a valid consent. This article considers aspects of that informational component. One misuse of the language of informed consent is hig... Read More about Consent and informational responsibility.

Medical Law and Ethics (2009)
Book

The Regulation of Hybrids and Chimeras in the UK (2009)
Book Chapter

In this report, we will, for the most part, sidestep discussion of how “chimeras” and “hybrids” are to be defined and distinguished, by simply focusing on the UK’s regulation of the activities that CHIMBRIDS has identified as its concern. These are a... Read More about The Regulation of Hybrids and Chimeras in the UK.

Consent: Informational Symmetry and Asymmetry (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Reproductive Cloning (2008)
Book Chapter

Prenatal Testing (2008)
Book Chapter

Organ Trading, Tourism, and Trafficking within Europe (2008)
Journal Article

This article argues for a regulatory and institutional response towards organ trading, tourism and trafficking that differs from extant approaches. European countries have hitherto adopted blanket prohibitions on organ trading (i.e. the buying or sel... Read More about Organ Trading, Tourism, and Trafficking within Europe.

Moral Interests, Privacy and Medical Research (2008)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines the relationship between the values of research and privacy in the context of medical research on patient data. An analytical framework is developed by interpreting the conception of privacy advanced in the jurisprudence of the... Read More about Moral Interests, Privacy and Medical Research.

Stem Cells. The Ethical Issues (2007)
Other

Stem Cell Research Ethics: Consensus Statement on Emerging Issues (2007)
Journal Article

Some Thoughts on Registration of Clinical Trials Involving Human Stem Cell Therapies (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Some Regulatory Tensions (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Legal Aspects of Organ Tourism, from a European Perspective (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Review Article: First Do No Harm (2007)
Journal Article

Landesbericht Grossbritannien (2007)
Book Chapter

Change and Continuity (2006)
Journal Article

Amending the Clinical Trials Regulations 2004 (2006)
Journal Article

FIGO Committee for the Ethical Aspects of Human Reproduction and Women's Health: Editorial Introduction (2006)
Journal Article

Medical Research into Emergency Treatment: Regulatory Tensions in England and Wales (2006)
Journal Article

Review of Michael Jones and Anne Morris, Blackstone's Statues on Medical Law. (2006)
Journal Article

Cloning and Judicial Reasoning (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Medical Law and Ethics (2006)
Book

Some Problems Challenging the UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (2005)
Journal Article

Designing Donors (2005)
Book Chapter

Globalisation and Human Dignity: Some Effects and Implications for the Creation and Use of Embryos. (2004)
Book Chapter

Individual Rights, Social Justice, and the Allocation of Advances in Biotechnology (2004)
Book Chapter

Response to Dignity as Constraint (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Cloning and Human Dignity (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Role of Dignity in the Cloning Debate (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

An Evaluation of the UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Variations and voids: the regulation of human cloning around the world (2004)
Journal Article

Background: No two countries have adopted identical regulatory measures on cloning. Understanding the complexity of these regulatory variations is essential. It highlights the challenges associated with the regulation of a controversial and rapidly e... Read More about Variations and voids: the regulation of human cloning around the world.

The Donor as Vendor (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Paying Living Organ Providers (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Current Legislation in Europe (2003)
Book Chapter

Globalisation, Commerce and Human Organs (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Human Cloning: The Legal Position (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Paying Living Organ Providers (2003)
Journal Article

Undue Influence in the Context of Medical Treatment (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Reproductive Cloning: Can Cloning Harm the Clone? (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Influencing Traits Before Birth (2002)
Book

In this informative and captivating book the author presents a moral critique of the laws governing the creation of "designer babies." Alan Gewirth's Principle of Generic Consistency is used as the starting point for developing a framework, which is... Read More about Influencing Traits Before Birth.

'Reproductive Cloning: Can Cloning Harm the Clone?' (2002)
Journal Article

Since the creation of Dolly the sheep was reported in February 1997, the possibility of a cloned child has elicited powerful declarations of condemnation. A widely held view is that cloning a human being would be immoral and ought to be prohibited by... Read More about 'Reproductive Cloning: Can Cloning Harm the Clone?'.

'Horizontal Applicability and Horizontal Effect' (2002)
Journal Article

Undue influence in the context of medical treatment (2002)
Journal Article

It is argued that the application of the doctrine of undue influence to patient's decisions in the context of medical treatment is ripe for development. The doctrine is capable of providing much needed protection for vulnerable patients if developed... Read More about Undue influence in the context of medical treatment.

Review of Andrei Marmor, Positive Law and Objective Values. (2001)
Journal Article

Embryo Research in the UK: Is Harmonisation in the EU Needed or Possible? (2001)
Book Chapter

Floodgates and Slippery Slopes in Legal Argumentation (2001)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Regulating Germ-Line Gene Therapy to Avoid Sliding Down the Slippery Slope (2000)
Journal Article

Regulating Germ-line Gene Therapy to Avoid Sliding Down the Slippery Slope (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Precautionary Reason as a Link to Moral Action (2000)
Book Chapter

Legal Regulation of Assisted Procreation, Genetic Diagnosis and Gene Therapy (2000)
Book Chapter

Wrongful Life Actions as a Means of Regulating Use of Genetic and Reproductive Technologies (1999)
Journal Article

Legal Regulation of Assisted Procreation, Genetic Diangosis and Gene Therapy (1999)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Second Conference of the European Network for Biomedical Ethics: Genetics in Human Reproduction. (1998)
Other

The Moral Status of Non-human Animals (1998)
Presentation / Conference Contribution