Our members’ expertise covers a wide range of health law topics, including medical malpractice, patient capacity and consent, reproduction, professional regulation, children and medicine, research ethics, and mental health. We are committed to conducting world-leading legal and policy research which will make a significant original contribution to health law scholarship and enhance the quality of public debate in a particularly controversial field.
The University of Liverpool has a strong tradition of research in the field of health law and regulation, and over the past decade has recruited academic staff at all levels, as well as doctoral and post-doctoral researchers, which has strengthened our profile and programme of research in the field.
The Health Law and Regulation Unit is multi-disciplinary, with its core membership extending to legal academics and practitioners, ethicists, sociologists, and pharmacy and veterinary professionals.
The Unit actively engages in cross-disciplinary collaboration through contributions to the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences' themes of Children and Childhood and Critical Medical Humanities. The Unit also complements the wider University theme of Starting Well, Living Well, Ageing Well and cross-University networks such as CHAIR (Connecting Human-Animal Interaction Research).
HLRU has also cultivated excellent external collaborations in Liverpool, such as Liverpool’s Women’s Hospital, Alder Hey Children's Hospital Trust, and the Small Animal Teaching Hospital.
If you're interested in joining the Health Law and Regulation Unit, please contact Professor Marie Fox (Director).
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