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Professor Anne-Maree Farrell holds the Chair of Medical Jurisprudence at the University of Edinburgh's Edinburgh Law School, a position first established over 210 years ago. She is the first woman to occupy this role. Her academic expertise spans health law, bioethics, and medical jurisprudence, with a focus on the intersection of politics, regulation, and healthcare. She serves as Director of the Mason Institute, leading interdisciplinary research on health law, ethics, and governance at global scales. Current research projects include studies on post-Brexit public health law, organ donation policy across the UK, and legal responses to technological transformations in sexual health. Professor Farrell has secured over £1.76 million in research funding from bodies like the Wellcome Trust and the British Academy. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and actively advises governmental bodies such as the UK Home Office’s Biometrics and Forensic Ethics Group and the Scottish Government’s Abortion Law Review Expert Group.
Education: BA, LLB, BLitt, MA, PhD.
Research Interests: Public health law, devolution in healthcare systems, human tissue regulation, clinical negligence, and no-fault compensation schemes. Her work examines legal frameworks for emerging technologies, including online harms and digital sexual connections.
Key Projects: 'When Borders Change: Public Health, Trade and Law' (Royal Society of Edinburgh-funded), 'Legal Transplants and Policy Transfers in Organ Donation' (British Academy/Leverhulme Trust), and 'Tech-Sex: The Technological Transformation of Sex' (Australian Research Council).
Labs/Teams: Mason Institute for Health, Ethics, and Law at Edinburgh Law School.
