Liverpool Law School
Biography
Aimee completed her Postgraduate LLM in Law, Medicine and Healthcare at the University of Liverpool in September 2020 and became a PhD candidate and Graduate Teaching Fellow at the School of Law and Social Justice in January 2021. Aimee is part of the Contract Law teaching team.
Research
Aimee’s research is situated predominantly within the field of mental capacity law and more generally within health or medical law. Aimee’s PhD thesis looks at the binary construct of mental capacity law and challenges its current trajectory using case studies of issues which fall on the cusp of the capacity/incapacity divide.
Aimee is part of the Health Law and Regulation Unit research cluster at the University.
Working thesis title
The binary construct of mental capacity: A case study of the issues on the cusp of the capacity/incapacity divide.
Dates of study
PhD Start Date: January 2021
PhD Completion Date: January 2025
Supervisors
Dr Paula Case (Liverpool Law School) and Dr Sacha Waxman (Liverpool Law School)
Publications
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.
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