Health and Law

This group investigates the law’s role in shaping the provision of healthcare, mental healthcare and care in other contexts. Our research provides critical, empirical and ethical analysis of healthcare law, mental health law, mental capacity law, reproductive rights and wider bioethics, focusing on social justice, autonomy and rights for real-world impact.

Scholars explore how legal frameworks respond to vulnerability, autonomy, and the rights of those receiving or providing care, using doctrinal, ethical, and socio-legal methods.

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Health and Law centres around medical law, mental health law, mental capacity, bioethics, healthcare regulation, reproductive rights, and legal responses to vulnerability, care, and decision-making across clinical and social contexts.

Below are some of out projects and outputs:

Himani Bhakuni: Politics of Disease Framing: Surviving and Overcoming Neglect
Richards, J. (2024). Insanity, Disability and Responsibility: Rethinking Autonomy to Challenge Structural Inequality. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 44(4), 832-859.
O'Loughlin, A. (2024). Law and Personality Disorder: Human Rights, Human Risks, and Rehabilitation. Oxford University Press.
Furgalska, M., & de Londras, F. (2024). Towards a rights-based approach for disabled women’s access to abortion. Medical Law Review, 32(4), 486-504.

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