Kenneth Veitch

Dr. Kenneth Veitch is an Associate Professor in Law at the University of Sussex, specializing in healthcare law and the welfare state. His research analyzes contract law's role in NHS outsourcing, the ethics of resource allocation, and neoliberal transformations of social rights.

Current projects investigate contractual governance in publicly funded healthcare, including COVID-19 procurement practices and the sociological dimensions of healthcare contracts. His scholarship critiques juridification processes in medical law and examines solidarity mechanisms in welfare state restructuring.

Publications explore the tension between market logics and social obligations in health policy, waste governance as a social policy tool, and the historical evolution of unemployment rights. Recent work theorizes the 'bonds of welfare' through relational contract frameworks.

He co-leads Sussex's Healthcare Law Research Group and supervises PhD students on class in criminal justice and anti-terrorism law in Turkey. He teaches Law and the Welfare State and Contract Law, integrating socio-legal perspectives on obligation and public service delivery.