Aimee Hulme

Profile

Biography

Aimee Hulme

Lecturer

I joined York Law School in September 2026 following my PhD at the University of Liverpool where I had been a Graduate Teaching Fellow since 2021.

I also completed my LLM in Law, Medicine and Healthcare at the University of Liverpool in 2020, and also worked as a Research Assistant for the University of York between 2025 and 2026. 

Research

Overview

My research is situated predominantly within the field of mental capacity law and more generally within health or medical law.

My PhD thesis looks at the binary construct of mental capacity law and challenges its current trajectory using a spatial and relational lens to examine case studies of issues which fall on the cusp of the capacity/incapacity divide. These include: fluctuating capacity, the use of ‘vulnerability’ to trigger the High Court's inherent jurisdiction, and anticipatory declarations in relation to pregnant people.

I have published two original sole authored papers in the Medical Law Review and received two awards following completion of my LLM at the University of Liverpool, the Dean’s Prize for best overall performance on the LLM and the Clerk’s Prize for best dissertation.

My research interests lie in mental capacity law and health law, exploring how spatial, relational and feminist perspectives reveal gaps and inequities within the capacity/incapacity divide. 

Publications

Selected publications

• A V Hulme, ‘Anticipatory Declarations in Obstetric Care: A Relational and Spatial Examination of Patient Empowerment, Institutional Impacts and Temporal Challenges’ (2024) 32(4) Medical Law Review 530.
• A V Hulme, ‘An Emerging Pattern? A Further Case of Anticipated Capacity Loss in Pregnancy: North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust v SR [2021] EWCOP 58’ (Commentary) (2022) 30(3) Medical Law Review 544.