Aimee Hulme
Postgraduate researcher and Graduate Teaching Fellow.
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 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 inherent jurisdiction, and anticipatory declarations in relation to pregnant people.
Aimee is part of the Health Law and Regulation Unit research cluster at the University.
Thesis title
The binary construct of mental capacity: A case study of the issues on the cusp of the capacity/incapacity divide.
Supervisors
- Dr Paula Case (Liverpool Law School)
- Dr Zaina Mahmoud (Liverpool Law School)
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.