Dr Emma Cave
Senior Lecturer
I joined the University in 2001 whilst completing my doctorate on criminalisation of pregnant women for acts pertaining to the foetus. Aspects of this research were published in a monograph, The Mother of All Crimes (Ashgate, 2004).
I co-author Margaret Brazier’s text book Medicine, Patients and the Law (5th Edn 2011), and have written articles for a wide range of journals. I teach Torts, Jurisprudence and specialise in Medical Law at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Scholarly and Research Interests
My specialist areas include the law relating to child consent, pregnancy and medical research. I have worked on a number of multi-disciplinary research projects analysing legal and ethical issues in medical research. One project provided professional training to research ethics committees, another attempted to delimit the research concept, another analysed the role of empirical methods in bioethics.
Most recently I embarked on the Medical Practitioners, Adolescents and Informed Consent project (2011-2012), funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
Teaching
Undergraduate:
- Medical Law
- Jurisprudence
- Torts
Postgraduate:
- Rights and Justice in Medical Malpractice
- Rights and Dilemmas Medical Law
PhD Supervision
I am delighted to hear from potential students interested in researching any area of medical law, and particularly happy to hear from those interested in legal and ethical issues relating to medical research, consent issues and issues pertaining to the foetus.
I currently supervise PhD students researching biobanks, wrongful life and birth litigation and cloning.
Key Publications
Books
Brazier, M. and Cave, E. (2011) Medicine, Patients and the Law. Penguin, 5th edition.
Journal Articles
Cave, E. (2011 forthcoming) Maximising Minors’ Capacity, Child and Family Law Quarterly.
Cave, E. (2010) Seen but not Heard: Children in Clinical Trials, 18(1) Medical Law Review 1.
Cave, E. (2009) Adolescent Consent and Confidentiality in the UK, European Journal of Healthcare Law 16(4), pp. 309-331.
Cave, E. and Nichols, C. (2007) Clinical Audit and Reform of the UK Ethical Review System Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 28, pp.181-203.
Contact Details
- Room: G.15, The Liberty Building
- Tel: 0113 343 5044
- Email: E.G.G.Cave@leeds.ac.uk