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Professor Suzanne Ost
Professor of Law
Department: Law
Degree: LL.B (Hons). Ph.D - 'An Analysis of the Euthanasia Phenomenon; Questions of Law, Morality and Medical Ethics Within Contemporary Society' (2000, Lancaster University).
Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Bioethics and Medical Law, Centre for Law and Society, Medical and Health-Care Law, Socio-legal work on Public Law, Legal Theory and Criminal Justice
Current Teaching
2010-11:
Undergraduate: Law300 Health Care Law and Ethics (joint course convenor with Sara Fovargue, lecturer and seminar leader), Law330 Crime and Criminal Justice (lecturer and seminar leader), Law 250 Gender and the Law (lecturer and seminar leader).
Postgraduate: Programme Director of the LLM/MA in Bioethics and Medical Law. See further http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/law/prospective/postgrad/llmbiomed.htm
Convenor of and seminar leader for LLM/MA modules - LLM101 Foundations of Medical Law, LLM102 Life and Death. Seminar leader for LLM103 Law and the Body.
Leading the Social-legal Research and Legal Philosophy sessions for the Legal Research Theory series for research students.
Research Interests
My main research interests are the legal and societal responses to child pornography and the sexual grooming of children, law and medical ethics (particularly euthanasia), related aspects of criminal law, law and literature and the 'euthanasia' and medical experimentation programmes that were implemented in Nazi Germany.
I have been awarded research funding from the AHRC and the British Academy.
I was co-investigator on The Impact of the Criminal Process on Health Care Ethics and Practice, an AHRC funded research project which provided a comprehensive analysis of the role of the criminal justice system in regulating health care practice and ethics in the UK.
I was involved in the ESRC funded Isis project (Lancaster University, Middlesex University and Swansea University), which developed an ethics-centred monitoring framework and tools for supporting law enforcement agencies in policing online social networks for the purpose of protecting children. For more information, see http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/isis/
For details of these and my other current research projects, see 'my projects'.
Potential Doctoral Proposals
I am happy to supervise undergraduate and MA dissertations/MPhils/PhDs upon the subjects of euthanasia, assisted dying and end of life and other aspects of medical law and ethics, legal and social issues surrounding child pornography/sexual grooming and other areas related to my research interests.
Successful PhD candidates
Dr Alexandra Mullock, 'End-Of-Life Law and Assisted Dying in the 21st Century: Time for Cautious Revolution?' (degree awarded 2012, University of Manchester, School of Law).
Dr Judith Robertson - PhD: 'An Exploration of the Effects of Litigation on the Midwife and Her Practice' (degree awarded 2010, University of Manchester, School of Nursing and Midwifery).
Additional Information
Internal Responsibilities
I am the Director of the REF14 for the Law School.
External Responsibilites/Appointments
I am Editor in Chief for the Medical Law Review journal.
I have been a Peer Review Assessor for the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the NHS Research for Patient Benefit Programme and the Wellcome Trust.
I have refereed a number of pieces for the Journal of Medical Ethics, the Medical Law Review, the Modern Law Review, Script-Ed, Clinical Ethics, Medical Law International,Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice and the Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture.
I have reviewed books and book proposals for Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Person-Longman, Routledge-Cavendish and Sweet and Maxwell.
I am External Examiner at the University of Bristol (MSc Health Care Ethics and Law), Edge Hill University (LLB law degree) and External Assessor at the University of East Anglia (Law and Medicine on the LLB degree).
I am a member of the Society of Legal Scholars and the Socio-Legal Studies Association.
Career Details:
I have been Professor of Law since April 2012. I was Senior Lecturer in Law between September 2007-March 2012. Previously, I was Lecturer in Law at the University of Manchester (2004-2007), and Lecturer in Law at the University of Central Lancashire (2000-2003).
Publications and Conference Presentations List
BOOKS
Forthcoming:
Medicine and Bioethics in the 'Theatre' of the Criminal Process (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Co-authored with Professor Margaret Brazier.
The Criminal Law and Bioethical Conflict: Walking the Tightrope (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Co-editor with Drs Amel Alghrani and Rebecca Bennett.
Published:
Child Pornography and Sexual Grooming: Legal and Societal Responses (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
The Criminal Justice System and Health Care, (Oxford University Press, 2007) (joint editor with Charles A Erin).
An Analytical Study of the Legal, Ethical and Moral Aspects of the Living Phenomenon of Euthanasia (Edwin Mellen Press, 2003).
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Forthcoming:
'"Consensual" Sexual Activity between Doctors and Patients: A Matter for the Criminal Law?' Book chapter for A Alghrani, R Bennett and S Ost (eds.), The Criminal Law and Bioethical Conflict, ibid). Co-authored with Hazel Biggs.
'When Criminal Law Encounters Bioethics: A Case of Tensions and Incompatibilities or an Apt Forum for Resolving Ethical Conflict?' Introductory book chapter for A Alghrani, R Bennett and S Ost (eds.), The Criminal Law and Bioethical Conflict (ibid.). Co-authored with A Alghrani and R Bennett.
Published:
Balancing Autonomy Rights and Protection: Children's Involvement in a Child Safety Online Project, (2011) Children and Society, doi: 10.1111/j.1099-0860.2011.00400.x
'Pushing the Boundaries of Lawful Assisted Dying in the Netherlands? Existential Suffering and Lay Assistance'(2011) 18(2) European Journal of Health Law, 163-189.With Alexandra Mullock.
'Physician Assisted Dying Outlaws: Self-Appointed Death in the Netherlands' (2011) 6(1) Clinical Ethics, 20-26.
'The De-medicalisation of Assisted Dying: Is a Less Medicalised Model the Way Forward?' (2010) 18(4) Medical Law Review, 497-540.
'When Should Precaution Prevail? Interests in (Public) Health, the Risk of Harm and Xenotransplantation' (2010) 18(3) Medical Law Review, 302-329. With Sara Fovargue.
'Criminalising Fabricated Images of Child Pornography: A Matter of Harm or Morality?' (2010) 30(2) Legal Studies, 230-256
'A Plea for Precaution with Public Health: The Xenotransplantation Example' (2009) 4(3) Clinical Ethics, 119-124. With S. Fovargue.
'"But is this law?" The nature of law, sovereign power and justice in Hamlet' (2007) 2 Law and Humanities, 31-56
'An Ill-Suited and Inappropriate Union? Exploring the Relationship Between the Criminal Justice System and Health Care' with C. A. Erin, in C. A. Erin and S. Ost (eds), The Criminal Justice System and Health Care, (2007), 1-14 - see above.
'Doctors and Nurses of Death: A Case Study of Eugenically Motivated Killing under the Nazi "Euthanasia" Programme' (2006) 27 Liverpool Law Review 5 - 30.
'Euthanasia and the Defence of Necessity: advocating a more appropriate legal response' (2005) Criminal Law Review 355-70. Also published (updated and expanded in places) in C. A. Erin and S. Ost (eds) The Criminal Justice System and Health Care, 99-117- see above.
'Getting to Grips with Sexual Grooming? The new offence under the Sexual Offences Act 2003' (2004) 26 Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law147-159.
'War Crimes and Legal Immunities: The Complicities of Waffen-SS General Karl Wolff in Nazi Medical Experiments' (2004) 4 Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion 1-69 (with Michael Salter).
'Children at Risk: Legal and Societal Perceptions of the Potential Threat that the Possession of Child Pornography Poses to Society' (2002) 29 Journal of Law and Society 436-460. Extracts also included in C. Critcher's Critical Readings: Moral Panics and the Media, (2006: Open University Press) 148-161.
'Blinking Subjects; Blinking Justice? - Law, Medicine and the PVS Patient' (2001) 23 Liverpool Law Review 1-32.
'Conceptions of the Euthanasia Phenomenon: A Comparative Discussion of the Merger of Law, Ethics and Morality within Three Jurisdictions' (2000) 5 Journal of Civil Liberties 155-192.
EDITORIALS
Editorial, Across the Spectrum of Medical Law: A Special Issue in Honour of Margaret Brazier, (2012) 20(1) Medical Law Review, 6-7, with H Biggs, S Fovargue and Jose Miola.
'As it is at the end so it is at the beginning: Legal challenges and new horizons for medicalised death and dying' (2010) 18(4) Medical Law Review, 437-441. With Hazel Biggs.
RECENT CONFERENCE/SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS
'Politically Proper? Connections between Medicine, Bioethics and Criminal Law', presented as part of the Bioethics and Medical Law seminar series, with Margaret Brazier, at Lancaster University, 9th November 2011.
'Responsibility in Bioethics and Criminal Law' at the final seminar for The Impact of the Criminal Process on Health Care Ethics and Practice AHRC funded project, University of Manchester, 9th September 2011.
'Suffering Under the Medical Model of Assisted Dying in the Netherlands: Unfair Distinctions in the Name of Pragmatic Compromise?' at the final conference for The Impact of the Criminal Process on Health Care Ethics and Practice AHRC funded project, University of Manchester, 11th April 2011.
'De-medicalising Assisted Dying' at the final seminar for The Impact of the Criminal Process on Health Care Ethics and Practice AHRC funded project, University of Manchester, 3rd November 2010.
'Beyond Harm: Exploitation as a Criminal Law Principle', presented as part of the Institute of Medical Law Seminar Series, at University of Birmingham, 14th May 2009.
With Sara Fovargue, 'When Two Worlds Collide - Rights and Autonomy in Developing Biotechnologies', at the Exploring Health Care Law's Recognition of Autonomy and Rights seminar, Lancaster University, 16th March 2009.
'Exploring alternatives to the harm principle: the (de)merits of approaches based upon dignity and exploitation', at the first seminar for the The Impact of the Criminal Process on Health Care Ethics and Practice AHRC funded project (see above), University of Manchester, 27th February 2008.
'Hamlet and the Constraints of Natural law' at the Constraints in Law and Literature mini colloquium, University of Manchester, 11th January 2008.
'Legal Issues in End of Life Care' at the End of Life Care: Meeting the Challenge Conference, University of Salford, March 2007.
Euthanasia and the Defence of Necessity: Advocating a More Appropriate Legal Response', a paper presented at the Criminalising Medicine - Doctors in the Dock conference, Chancellor's Conference Centre, University of Manchester, May 2005.
'Legal Responses to Euthanasia: The Sanctity of Life and the Double Effect Doctrine', a paper presented to the Section of Psychiatry, Manchester Medical Society, at its symposium Ethics and Euthanasia, Manchester, February 2004.
'Children At Risk - Responses to the Act of Possessing Child Pornography in Legal and Social Discourses', Social and Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Wales, April 2002.
Media Availability
Available in principle in matters relating to my expertise.
Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database
Suzanne Ost has 20 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk
Ost, Suzanne and Mullock, Alexandra (2011) Pushing the boundaries of lawful assisted dying in the Netherlands? Existential suffering and lay assistance. European Journal of Health Law, 18 (2). pp. 163-189. ISSN 0929-0273
Ost, Suzanne (2010) Criminalising fabricated images of child pornography : a matter of harm or morality? Legal Studies, 30 (2). pp. 230-256. ISSN 0261-3875
Ost, Suzanne (2010) The De-medicalisation of assisted dying : is a less medicalised model the way forward? Medical Law Review, 18 (4). pp. 497-540. ISSN 0967-0742
Fovargue, Sara and Ost, Suzanne (2010) When should precaution prevail? : interests in (public) health, the risk of harm and xenotransplantation. Medical Law Review, 18 (3). pp. 302-329. ISSN 0967-0742
Ost, Suzanne (2009) Child pornography and sexual grooming:legal and societal responses. Cambridge Studies in Law and Society . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9780521885829
Ost, Suzanne (2007) "But is this law?" The nature of law, sovereign power and justice in Hamlet. Law and Humanities Journal, 2. ISSN 1752-1483
Ost, Suzanne (2006) Doctors and Nurses of Death: A Case Study of Eugenically Motivated Killing under the Nazi ‘Euthanasia’ Programme. Liverpool Law Review, 27 (1). pp. 5-30. ISSN 0144-932X (Print) 1572-8625 (Online)
Ost, Suzanne (2004) Getting to Grips with Sexual Grooming? The new offence under the Sexual Offences Act 2003. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 26 (2). pp. 147-159. ISSN 1469-9621
Ost, Suzanne (2002) Children at Risk : Legal and Societal Perceptions of the Potential Threat that the Possession of Child Pornography Poses to Society. Journal of Law and Society, 29 (3). pp. 436-460. ISSN 1467-6478
Associated Keywords: Assisted dying, Child abuse and neglect, Crime and society, Criminal law, End of life, Euthanasia, Health, Health care, Law and literature, Law and society, Medical and health-care law, Medical ethics, Medical law, Medical law and ethics, Press reporting of sexual offences, Sexual offences, Shakespeare, Social-legal studies
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Contact Details
Tel: +44 (0)1524 594938
Room: Bowland North, c101
Office Hour: Lent and Summer Terms 2011-12: please see notice on my office door or send me an email.
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