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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 Review 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 in the field.

20th Anniversary special issue: Across the Spectrum of Medical Law: A Special Issue in Honour of Margaret Brazier

20(1) 2012: Twentieth Anniversary Issue of the Medical Law Review

The first issue of 20th volume of the Medical Law Review is a special issue in honour of Professor Margaret Brazier to mark both her retirement from her role as the Editor-in-Chief in 2010 and the twentieth anniversary of the journal. In recognition of Professor Brazier’s invaluable contribution to the field of health care law and her seven year editorship of the Medical Law Review, the papers in this issue consider some of her published pieces, exploring the wide influence of her work and the ways in which her arguments/ideas have been taken forward.

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AS IT IS AT THE END SO IT IS AT THE BEGINNING: LEGAL CHALLENGES AND NEW HORIZONS FOR MEDICALISED DEATH AND DYING
Hazel Biggs and Suzanne Ost

Oxford Journals is pleased to announce that Medical Law Review is now covered by ISI’s Science Citation Index as well as the Social Science Citation Index, and will receive a 2011 impact factor in June 2012.

Lecture Invitation: 'Palliative Care: an Ethical and Legal Duty?'

You are cordially invited to a lecture, in memory of the late Professor David Price, Professor of Medical Law, which will be held on 18 May at 6 pm in the Hugh Aston Building, De Montfort University, Leicester, followed by a drinks reception. To book a place please contact Kate Scott, tel. 0116 207 8182.

The lecture, entitled 'Palliative Care: an Ethical and Legal Duty?' will be given by Professor John Keown, of Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
John Keown holds the Rose F. Kennedy Chair in Christian Ethics in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, Washington DC. Having graduated in law from Cambridge he took a doctorate at Oxford. He was appointed to a lectureship in law in the University of Leicester, and then in the University of Cambridge, where he held fellowships at Queens' College and Churchill College. His research has been cited by bodies including the United States Supreme Court and the Law Lords. Last year he testified as an expert witness for the Attorney-General of Canada in a case concerning the constitutionality of Canada's prohibition of euthanasia and assisting suicide. The most recent of his five books is The Law and Ethics of Medicine (2012), published by Oxford University Press. He has also written a play based on the trial of Dr Leonard Arthur in Leicester in 1981. He is currently working on two book projects, a festschrift in honour of John Finnis, to be published by Oxford University Press, and a book questioning the justice of America's War for Independence.'

Sheree Peaple
Head of Leicester De Montfort Law School The Gateway Leicester
LE1 9BH
Tel 0116 207 8182