The Department of Law, in partnership with the UK Association of Women Judges and the 100 years of women lawyers campaign, welcomes you to Women, Reproductive Rights & the Law: A conversation between judges and academics.
Deirdre Fottrell specialises in the law relating to children. She is also a leading practitioner in the field of surrogacy and assisted reproduction cases in which issues of legal parentage arise. She has appeared at all levels of court in the UK including the Supreme Court and she has litigated cases before the European Court of Human Rights. Deirdre has particular expertise as appellate counsel and in 2017-18 she has appeared in the Court of Appeal on ten occasions. In 2018 she acted for the appellants in the UKSC in the case of Williams v the London Borough Of Hackney. Deirdre was a university lecturer before coming to the bar. She has taught and published in the area of children's rights, European human rights and international law since 1995. She has taught at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London and the University of Essex. From 2002-2012 she was a visiting professor at the School of International Affairs at Columbia University in New York. She has acted as a Council of Europe expert on the ECHR and in an advisory capacity to UNIFEM.
Dame Lucy Theis is a judge of the High Court of England and Wales. Lucy Theis QC was appointed as a High Court judge in October 2010, assigned to the Family Division. She was a barrister, Assistant Recorder, Recorder and a Deputy High Court judge.
Emily Jackson is a Professor with the Department of Law, LSE. Professor Jackson first joined the LSE in 1998. After graduating from Oxford University, she worked as a research officer at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies in Oxford. Her first teaching position was at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, and she has also taught at Birkbeck College and Queen Mary, University of London. Emily’s research interests are in the field of medical law. She is a member of the British Medical Association Medical Ethics Committee, and until 2012, she was Deputy Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. From 2014-2017, she was a Judicial Appointments Commissioner. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, and in 2017 was awarded an OBE for services to higher education
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