Medical and Mental Health Law have been taught at the LSE for over 10 years, with a strong research component to the teaching being complemented by a focus on the regulation of healthcare. The law school has particular expertise in the fields of reproductive technologies and embryo research, donor conception and surrogacy, end of life decision-making, regulation of the pharmaceutical industry, medical mishap and the resolution of disputes between healthcare providers and doctors, healthcare rationing, dementia, unfitness to plead and the criminal and civil aspects of mental health law. Research in the law school has a strong interdisciplinary and socio-legal flavour. Members of the faculty have made substantive research contributions to law reform processes in these areas, and routinely sit on expert panels and committees. They have conducted research funded by the Department of Health, health authorities, government commissions and the European Parliament.
Faculty
Dr Cressida Auckland
Professor Emily Jackson
Professor Jill Peay
Research students
Mireia Garcés de Marcilla Musté
Recent publications
- Emily Jackson 'Withholding and withdrawing life-prolonging treatment and the relevance of patients’ wishes: reforming the Mental Capacity Act 2005' in White, Ben P. and Willmott, Lindy, (eds.) International Perspectives on End-of-Life Law Reform: Politics, Persuasion and Persistence. Cambridge Bioethics and Law. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2021) pp.232–249
- Jill Peay 'Anticipating harm in the context of mental disorder. Looking at Italy from England and Wales' (2021) in Malattia Psichiatrica E Pericolosità Sociale: Tra Sistema Penale E Servizi Sanitari, edited by G. Giappichelli with Marco Bevilacqua, Laura Notaro, Giulio Profeta, Laura Ricci and Alice Savarino, Atti del Convegno di Pisa, 16-17 ottobre 2020, pp.37-52
- Emily Jackson 'Childless by circumstance – Using an online survey to explore the experiences of childless women who had wanted children'Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online (2021) Vol.12 pp.44-55 (with Dilan Chauhan and Joyce C. Harper)
- Emily Jackson ‘Challenging the comparison in Montgomery between patients and “consumers exercising choices"' (2021) Medical Law Review online first
- Emily Jackson ‘Patients’ wishes and best interests: reforming section 4 of the Mental Capacity Act 2005’ in Lindy Wilmott and Ben White (eds) International Perspectives on End-of-Life Reform: Politics, Persuasion and Persistence (Cambridge UP, 2021)
- Emily Jackson ‘The Legacy of the Warnock Report’ in Law and Legacy in Medical Jurisprudence: Essays in Honour of Graeme Laurie (Cambridge UP, 2021)
- Emily Jackson 'In whose interests? The prohibition of assisted suicide in the UK' in Iyiola Solanke (ed) On Crime, Society and Responsibility in the work of Nicola Lacey (Oxford University Press, 2021) 171-192.
- Cressida Auckland ‘A Façade of Futility’ (2021) Law Quarterly Review 137: 451-476
- Cressida Auckland 'Barnsley Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v MSP [2020] EWCOP 26: The Need for Caution When Establishing the Wishes of Incapacitated Patients' (2021) Medical Law Review 29(2): 347–358
- Emily Jackson, with Jonathan Herring and Sally Sheldon, ‘Would decriminalisation of abortion mean deregulation?’ in Sally Sheldon (ed) What would it Mean to Decriminalise Abortion in the UK? The Evidence (Policy Press, 2020) 57-76
- Emily Jackson ‘Assisted Conception and Surrogacy in the United Kingdom’ in ‘Assisted Conception and Surrogacy in the United Kingdom’ in J Eekelaar and R George (eds) Routledge Handbook of Family Law and Policy (Routledge, 2020) 187-199
- Emily Jackson, with Huseyin Naci et al ‘Generating comparative evidence on new drugs and devices before approval’ (2020) 395 The Lancet 986-997.
- Emily Jackson, with I Glenn Cohen, ‘Introduction to the Right to Procreate and Reproductive Technologies’ in Tamara Hervey and David Orentlicher (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Health Law (Oxford UP, 2020)
- Cressida Auckland 'Resolving Disagreement: A Multi-Jurisdictional Comparative Analysis of Disputes about Children’s Medical Care' (2020) Medical Law Review 28(4) 643–674 (with I. Goold)
- Cressida Auckland 'Re-evaluating 'best interests' in the wake of Raqeeb v Barts NHS Foundation Trust & Anors' [2019] EWHC 2531 (Admin)' (2020) Modern Law Review 83(6) 1328-1342 (with I. Goold)
- Cressida Auckland 'Legal and Cultural Differences in Medical Decision-Making on behalf of Very Young Children' in I. Goold, C.Auckland and J. Herring, Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Young Children: A Comparative Perspective (Hart Publishing, 2020) (with I. Goold)
- Cressida Auckland 'Medical-Decision Making on Behalf of Children in English and Welsh Law: A Child-Centred Best Interests Approach' in I. Goold, C.Auckland and J. Herring, Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Young Children: A Comparative Perspective (Hart Publishing, 2020) (with I. Goold and J. Herring)
- Cressida Auckland Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Young Children: A Comparative Perspective (Hart Publishing, 2020) (with I. Goold and J. Herring)
- Kai Möller 'Male and Female Genital Cutting: Between the Best Interest of the Child and Genital Mutilation'Oxford Journal of Legal Studies [online first]
- Cressida Auckland 'Claiming in Contract for Wrongful Conception' Law Quarterly Review (2020) 136 (Jan) pp.45-51 (with I. Goold)
- Cressida Auckland Parental Rights, Best Interests and Significant Harms: Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Children Post-Great Ormond Street Hospital v Yates (Hart Publishing, 2019) (with I. Goold and J. Herring)
- Emily Jackson, with Jack Wilkinson et al, ‘Do à la carte menus serve infertility patients? The ethics and regulation of IVF add-ons’ (2019) 112 Fertility and Sterility 973-977
- Emily Jackson ‘Afterword’ in Childbirth, Vulnerability and Law: Exploring Issues of Violence and Control, Jonathan Herring and Camilla Pickles (eds) (London, Routledge, 2019) 251-255.
- Cressida Auckland 'Parental Rights, Best Interests and Significant Harms'Cambridge Law Journal (2019) 78 (2) pp. 287-323 (with I. Goold)
- Jill Peay, V. Beech, CM. Marshall, T. Exworthy, NJ. Blackwood 'Forty-five revolutions per minute: a qualitative study of Hybrid Order use in forensic psychiatric practice'The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology (2018) 29 (5)
- Brown P, Stahl D, Appiah-Kusi E, Brewer R, Watts M, Peay J, et al. (2018) 'Fitness to plead: Development and validation of a standardised assessment instrument'. PLoS ONE 13(4): e0194332
- Julie McCandless 'Reforming birth registration law in England and Wales?'Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online (2017) 4 pp.52-58
- Jill Peay 'Mental Health, Mental Disabilities and Crime' in A. Liebling, S. Maruna and L. McAra (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Criminology 6th Editon, (2017) [FORTHCOMING]
- Emily Jackson 'Ethical Dilemmas in Obstetrics and Gynaecology' in K Edmunds (ed) Dewhurst’s Textbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 9th edition (Wiley Blackwell, 2017).
- Emily Jackson 'The Ambiguities of “Social” Egg Freezing and the Challenges of Informed Consent' (2017) Biosocieties
- Emily Jackson 'Learning from Cross-border Reproduction' (2017) Medical Law Review 25 (1) pp.23-46. (with Jenni Millbank, Isabel Karpin and Anita Stuhmcke.)
- Jill Peay 'Responsibility, Culpability and the Sentencing of Mentally Disordered Offenders: Objectives in Conflict' Criminal Law Review (2016) Issue 3 pp.152-164
- Jill Peay 'An awkward fit: offenders with mental disabilities in a system of criminal justice' in M. Bosworth. C. Hoyle and L.Zedner (eds) (2016) Changing Contours of Criminal Justice: Research, Politics and Policy (Oxford: OUP, 2016)
- Emily Jackson 'Abortion' in Principles of Medical Law, Jean McHale and Judith Laing (eds) (Oxford UP, 2016)
- Emily Jackson '"Social" egg freezing and the UK's statutory storage time limits' Journal of Medical Ethics (2016)
- Emily Jackson Medical Law : Text, Cases and Materials (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016) 4th edition
- Emily Jackson 'The law and DIY Assisted Conception’ in Kirsty Horsey (ed) Regulating Assisted Conception(Routledge, 2015), 31-49..
- Emily Jackson 'DIY Abortion and Harm Reduction' in G Laurie and P Ferguson (eds) Inspiring a Medico-Legal Revolution: Essays in Honour of Sheila McLean (Ashgate, 2015) 25-36
- Emily Jackson 'A response to Saviour Siblings: A Relational Approach to the Welfare of the Child in Selective Reproduction' (2015) 41 Journal of Medical Ethics 929-30
- Emily Jackson 'The relationship between medical law and good medical ethics' (2015) 41 Journal of Medical Ethics 41 (1): 95-98
- Jill Peay 'Mental incapacity and criminal liability: Redrawing the fault lines?' International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 40 (2015) pp.25-35
- Jill Peay 'Sentencing Mentally Disordered Offenders: Conflicting Objectives, Perilous Decisions and Cognitive Insights'LSE Law Society and Economy Working Paper Series, 01-2015
- Emily Jackson 'Assisted Conception and Surrogacy in the United Kingdom' in J Eekelaar and Rob George (eds) Routledge Handbook of Family Law and Policy (Routledge, 2014) 189-200.
- Emily Jackson 'Regulating Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing: the view from the UK' (2014) 50 Japanese Journal of Law and Political Science 9-19.
- Linda Mulcahy 'The Market for Precedent: Shifting Visions of the Role of Clinical Negligence Claims and Trials'Medical Law Review (2014) 22 (2) pp.274-290
- Jill Peay 'Imprisoning the Mentally Disordered: A Manifest Injustice?'LSE Law Society and Economy Working Paper Series, 07-2014
- Emily Jackson ‘Regulating Embryo Research: A Regulator’s Perspective’ in Mark Flear et al (eds) European Law and New Health Technologies (Oxford University Press, 2013) 275-281.
- Emily Jackson 'Compensating Egg Donors' in Sumi Madhok, Anne Phillips and Kalpana Wilson (eds) Gender, Agency and Coercion (Palgrave, 2013) 181-194.
- Emily Jackson ‘The Liverpool Care Pathway Review’ Elder Law Journal (2013) 3 (4) pp.402-404
- Jill Peay 'Mental disorder and Imprisonment: Understanding an Intractable Problem?' in The Penal Landscape: The Howard League Guide to Criminal Justice in England and Wales' ed. Anita Dockley and Ian Loader (2013)
- Emily Jackson ‘The Minimally Conscious State and Treatment Withdrawal’ (2013) 39 Journal of Medical Ethics559-61
- Emily Jackson 'Statutory regulation of PGD: unintended consequences and future challenges' in Sheila McLean Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis: A Comparative and Theoretical Analysis (Routledge, 2012) 71-88.
- Emily Jackson Law and the Regulation of Medicines (Hart 2012