Find a research supervisor in health and health care law

Dr Amber Dar joined Birmingham Law School in September 2021. Amber’s research and teaching on specialist modules has focussed on regulation and responsibility for innovation in healthcare for children. Amber previously completed her doctoral research at the University of Manchester, after which she joined the University of Liverpool as a Lecturer in Law.  Prior to joining ...

Máiréad Enright’s research is in feminist legal studies and critical legal theory, with a particular focus on law and religion. She has written on issues including reproductive justice, law reform and grassroots organising, illegality in social movements, responses to historical injustice and obstetric violence.  She often works with and advises groups campaigning around ...

• Mental Capacity and Disability Law, especially research involving questions of everyday decision-making, dementia, intellectual disability, powers of attorney, advance directives and end of life decision making.
• Gender, Sexuality and Law, particularly issues to do with care, family law, discrimination, equality and human rights.

Dr Argyro Karanasiou joined the School of Law at the University of Birmingham in 2022 as a Lecturer in Law & Innovation (College of Arts & Law), and further awarded Associate status at the School of Computer Sciences (College of Engineering & Physical Sciences). She is the Director for the MSc in Responsible Data Science, a programme developed in collaboration with Accenture ...

Professor Atina Krajewska’s work focuses on the developments of human rights law in the area of health and medicine. She has published in the area of genomics, reproductive rights, and global health law and governance. Her book on Genetic Information and the Scope of Personal Autonomy in European Law, published in Poland in 2008, has had considerable impact on legislative decisions of ...

Professor Jean McHale researches and writes in the area of Health Law and Health Care law. She is the Director of the Centre for Health Law, Science and Policyat Birmingham Law School. Her recent books include Adult Social Care Law and Policy, Lessons from the Pandemic with Dr Laura Noszlopy ( In press, BUP publication date November 2024), The Regulation of Cosmetic Procedures: Legal, Ethical ...

Dr Claire McIvor is a tort lawyer whose main research interests are: (i) liability for the acts of others (both vicarious and non-vicarious); (ii) public authority liability in negligence (particularly police liability), and more recently, (iii) legal applications of Epidemiology.

Dr Moreton’s research tackles questions of social justice by focusing on areas of human interaction within marginalised groups, such as offenders with Anti-Social Personality Disorder, children, pregnant women and people receiving palliative care and at the end-of-life. She adopts a socio-legal approach to research, bringing together doctrinal law and real-world practice through a ...

Professor Quigley has an interdisciplinary background which crosses medicine, ethics, and law. This is reflected in her research which focuses on the philosophical analysis of law and policy in medicine and the biosciences. Her research focuses on bodies, biomaterials and biotechnologies. She has received funding from a number of bodies for her work, including from the Leverhulme and Wellcome ...

Samantha’s primary teaching and research interests lie in the fields of tort and professional ethics, specifically those areas which bear upon the construction of human and nonhuman health-related negligence claims.

In the past, Samantha has written on professional duties and standards of care, and has consulted on the creation of professional guidance and competency standards for various ...

His research focuses in health law field where he examines issues relating to clinical negligence litigation and patient safety. National and global patient safety policy development and UHC (Universal Health Coverage). He has a fortnightly column in the British Journal of Nursing. He is a frequent contributor to the Bill of Health published by the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School where ...