The Medical Law Review is established as an authoritative source of reference for academics, lawyers, legal and medical practitioners, law students, and anyone interested in healthcare and the law.
The journal presents articles of international interest which provide thorough analyses and comment on the wide range of topical issues that are fundamental to this expanding area of law. In addition, commentary sections provide in depth explorations of topical aspects of the field.

Editors-in-chief:
Professor Hazel Biggs
H.biggs@soton.ac.uk
Professor of Medical Law and Bioethics
School of Law
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton SO17 1BJ
UK
Professor Suzanne Ost
s.ost@lancaster.ac.uk
Law School
Bowland North
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YN
UK
To contact the MedLaw editorial office with any general submission enquiries, please email: medlaw.editorialoffice@oup.com
Assistant editor - book reviews:
Professor Sara Fovargue
s.fovargue@lancaster.ac.uk
C98 Bowland North-East,
Law School,
Lancaster University,
Lancaster, LA1 4YN
Assistant editor - commentaries:
Professor José Miola
jm83@leicester.ac.uk
School of Law, University of Leicester
Founding and former editors:
Judge Andrew Grubb
Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber), Newport
Professor Sir Ian Kennedy
Emeritus Professor of Health Law, Ethics and Policy, University College, London
Professor Margot Brazier
University of Manchester
Editorial board:
Susan Bewley
Guy’s and St Thomas’
David Body
Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales and Trustee of the Patients’ Association
Professor Jo Bridgeman
University of Sussex
Professor Emma Cave
University of Durham
Professor Emilie Cloatre
University of Kent
Dr Beverley Clough
University of Leeds
Professor Mary Donnelly
University College Cork
Judge Andrew Grubb
Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber), Newport
Professor Rob Heywood
University of East Anglia
Professor Sir Ian Kennedy
Emeritus Professor of Health Law, Ethics and Policy, University College London
Dr. Judy Laing
University of Bristol
Professor Jonathan Montgomery
Professor of Health Care Law, UCL Faculty of Laws
HH Judge David S. Pearl
Formerly National Chair of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service, Saffron Walden
Professor David Price †
Dr Craig Purshouse
University of Leeds
Professor Stephen Wilkinson
Lancaster University
Dr Glenys Williams
Aberystwyth University
International board of advisors:
Professor George J. Annas
Boston University, USA
Judge C. Byk
Judge at the Court of Appeal, Paris, France
Professor Don Chalmers
University of Tasmania, Australia
Professor Lawrence O. Gostin
Georgetown University Law Centre, USA
The Hon. Justice Michael Kirby
High Court of Australia
Professor Ron Paterson
University of Auckland
Professor Henriette Roscam Abbing
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Professor Robert Schwartz
University of New Mexico, USA
Professor Peter D.G. Skegg
University of Otago, New Zealand
Professor Margaret A. Somerville
McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law, Canada
Professor Nicholas P. Terry
Saint Louis University, USA