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Heloise Robinson is the Singer Fellow in Law at Exeter College, Oxford, and a member of the Oxford Faculty of Law. She holds a DPhil in Law from Oxford and completed her initial legal studies at McGill University in Canada. Her research focuses on medical law and ethics, particularly disability issues, jurisprudence, and equality. She has taught a wide range of legal subjects including Medical Law and Ethics, Tort Law, and Jurisprudence, and has designed specialized courses like Disability and Equality in the Law Faculty. Robinson also maintains an active role in academic publishing, leading edited collections and contributing to top-tier journals such as the Modern Law Review and the Journal of Medical Ethics. Her work frequently engages with ethical debates surrounding disability rights, reproductive choices, and legal philosophy.
Her academic contributions include groundbreaking proposals on redefining legal personhood in pregnancy to prioritize the rights of pregnant individuals over fetal interests, challenging existing frameworks in abortion law and disability equality. She is currently completing a monograph on selecting against disability and state neutrality, as well as editing an Oxford University Press collection on philosophy and disability law. Robinson’s interdisciplinary approach is reflected in her conference presentations, which bridge legal theory, bioethics, and disability advocacy.
Robinson’s advisory work includes supervising postgraduate research in medical law and ethics, and she has assessed DPhil research on disability law and legal philosophy. She is affiliated with the Family and Medical Law Research Group and has convened major conferences such as the 2022 event on prenatal testing and disability ethics. Her scholarship emphasizes the intersection of law, philosophy, and social justice, particularly in marginalized communities.
