Dr Cressida Auckland

Cressida is an Associate Professor of Medical Law. Her research focusses on issues relating to mental capacity and end-of-life decision-making. She has a particular interest in the interplay between psychiatry, philosophy and law, encapsulated in her monograph, Values and Disorder in Mental Capacity Law, whichinterrogates the challenges posed by mental disorder to decision-making.

Her teaching covers the full spectrum of medical law, and she currently convenes both the undergraduate (LL205) and LLM (LL4EB) courses on the subject. Before arriving at LSE, Cressida was a lecturer at both Merton College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, as well as a guest teacher at LSE. She completed her doctorate, entitled 'The cusp of capacity’, at Merton College, Oxford, where she also read Law as an undergraduate. She holds a Masters in Medical Law and Ethics from King’s College, London.

Cressida is on the editorial committee of the Modern Law Review and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics. She also an Academic Fellow of the Middle Temple.

Administrative support: Law.Reception@lse.ac.uk

Medical law, and, in particular, issues relating to mental capacity and end of life decision-making.

• LL205 Medical Law
• LL4EB Key Issues in Medical Law and Ethics