We have had a fantastic year so far with our awesome campus PGT students! If you are considering a Medical Law and Bioethics Masters (LLM, MA or MSc for intercalating Medics), we have a long history of excellence here at Manchester! @uomsoss @law_uom https://t.co/Z2cXnDbzQw

Great to see this very timely article on assisted dying by CSEP's @FargSuzanne as the HL considers the @kimleadbeater Bill @law_uom @uomsoss Will NHS resource constraints undermine the proposed legal safeguards for assisted dying? | Journal of Medical Ethics

Congratulations to the new JME Editors! @uomsoss @law_uom

CSEP's @alex_mullock is running a Policy event on assisted dying on 10 June, with @NancyPreston16 @SuzanneOst3737 and others if you are interested: Assisted Dying Symposium: What Model of AD Service Ought to be Created? Tickets, Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM | Eventbrite

Today the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill will be brought before MPs for amendments. Our analysis of the international approaches to assisted dying brings important context to the debate. Read the analysis here:

Manchester is hiring! Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in the Law of Obligations (with a special emphasis on the Law of Torts) (Teaching and Research)

Margot Brazier was Editor of Medical Law Review 2004-2011. In 2012, a special issue was published to recognise her extraordinary contribution to the field. Following Margot's untimely death on 4th March, this is available free until the end of May

For last year’s brilliant advocacy students who argued this case… were you right or wrong?… Find out next week…

CSEP's @alex_mullock was cited today in the HC debate of the Leadbeater Bill (Dame Meg Hillier MP, 10.34) @law_uom @uomsoss : https://t.co/ESUp5361vS

Congratulations to Lucy Frith, Anna Nelson, and Caroline Redhead, together with Petra Nordqvist (Sociology), who have been highly commended in UoM's Making a Difference Awards (Outstanding Benefit to Society through Research) for the ConnecteDNA project! @law_uom @uomsoss

We are very proud that CSEP's Professor Sarah Devaney is chairing the Nuffield Council Review of the 14-day rule: @law_uom @uomsoss

📢 Research Participants Needed 💬 I’m currently researching the experiences of ending fertility treatment. If you: ✅ Had fertility treatment at a UK clinic ✅ Ended treatment in the last 10 yrs I’d love to hear from you.. 📩 P2692728@my365.dmu.ac.uk

NEW: Jailed for 8 Years for a Group Chat – Challenging Institutional Racism in the Courts. In his annual lecture at @officialuom Keir Monteith KC will examine how a 17-year-old ‘law student-to-be’ was wrongly convicted. 🗓️ 1 May ⏱️ 5pm 📍Roscoe B Book: https://t.co/PDvMWarTZ9

As the House of Commons prepares for the Third Reading of the @kimleadbeater Bill, this paper considers vulnerability and the potential value of prospective legal authorisation. @law_uom @uomsoss

As news of the first UK baby born from a successful womb transplant is announced, the legal and ethical issues explored in this 2021 CSEP paper, considering imaginary sisters and comparing surrogacy to UTx, is timely. @law_uom @uomsoss

If you are considering postgrad study in Health Care Ethics and Law, we have a part time distance learning LLM, MA and full time campus programmes for a September start: https://t.co/MpgWlYDggV

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill – Bill with amendments to 20 March 2025, and an important clause to be debated next.

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Tributes to Lancashire's Margot Brazier who has died at the age of 74 | Lancashire Telegraph

🌟As our #InternationalWomensDay & #WomensHistoryMonth research spotlight continues, Professor David Gadd of Criminology discusses why he thinks we need to change the narrative around sexual violence and consent 🔗Read his blog here: https://t.co/hW5pyLiJ3G #SoSSResearch

It is great to see this insightful report published, which will I hope inform legislative developments: Nuffield Council on Bioethics publishes final report from in-depth exploration of public views on assisted dying in England: