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Dr Sara Fovargue

Senior Lecturer

Degree: LLB (Hons). Barrister (Lincoln's Inn). PhD - "Regulating Developing Technologies: Xenotransplantation and the Law", University of Manchester.

Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Bioethics and Medical Law, Centre for Law and Society, Gender, Sexuality, the Family and the Law, Medical and Health-Care Law

Personal website

Current Teaching

2011-2012 - Lent Term

UG - Part II, Second year - Law 240 Family Law, joint course convenor with Dr Sarah Beresford, lecturer and seminar leader.

UG - Part II, Final year - Law 300 Health Care Law and Ethics, joint course convenor with Dr Suzanne Ost, lecturer and seminar leader.

PG - LLM 102 Life and Death - module tutor.

PG - LLM 103 Law and the Body - module convenor and tutor.

I am supervising two UG dissertations.

Research Interests

My research largely centres around two areas, biotechnology and reproduction, and I am particularly interested in xenotransplantation. Themes within my work include autonomy, risk, regulation, and the relationship between law and ethics. My research explores legal and ethical aspects of clinical research, regulation and risk, and I have published on the legal regulation of xenotransplantation, and issues surrounding consenting to risk. I am also interested in decision making processes and practices with regard to the 'vulnerable'.

Potential Doctoral Proposals

Health care law and ethics generally. I am particularly interested in clinical research involving human and non-human animals, developing biotechnologies such as xenotransplantation (especially issues of risk and regulation), reproductive technologies, and decision making for the 'vulnerable'

Family law - especially issues around parents, parenthood and reproductive technologies, children and childhood - particularly children and health.

Successful PhD candidates

Suliman M.K. Ibrahim - The Moral and Legal Status of the Human Foetus: A Critical Analysis from an Islamic Perspective (degree awarded 2008)

Haniwarda Yaakob - Individual Reproductive Autonomy in Malaysia: Why Couples Should be Allowed to Use Pre-implantationGenetic Diagnosis to Select the Sex of their Child (degree awarded 2010).

I am currently supervising two PhD candidates; one considering systems theory, and one exploring health care law in Ghana.

Additional Information

I am an Associate Editor (Book Reviews) of the Medical Law Review.

I am an Editor of the Public Policy and Law section of Clinical Ethics (published by the Royal Society of Medicine) and a member of the journal's Editorial Committee.

I am the Law School's Coursework Officer (responsible for extensions), the Academic Officer (responsible for plagiarism), and Equal Opportunities and Disabilities Officer.

Selected Publications

Monographs

Xenotransplantation and Risk: Regulating a Developing Biotechnology (Cambridge University Press, 2012): http://www.cambridge.org/9780521195768.

Reports

Final report to European Commission on Reproductive Choice and Control of Fertility (2000). The Commission of the European Communities Directorate General XII Biomedicine and Health Research Programme (BIOMED 2), with M. Brazier, M Fox.

Best Practice? Health Care Decision Making By, With and For People with Learning Disabilities (1999) National Development Team and Joseph Rowntree Foundation, with M. Flynn, K. Keywood.

Articles

"Key Changes in the Regulation of Assisted Reproduction Introduced by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008" (2011) 6 Clinical Ethics 162-166, with J. Miola.

"The European Union Directive on Organ Donation and Transplantation" (2011) 6 Clinical Ethics 117-121, with J. Miola.

"Treating Those Who Are Mentally Disordered Under the Mental Health Act 1983: Part 2" (2011) 6 Clinical Ethics 64-67, with J. Miola.

"Assessing and Detaining Those Who Are Mentally Disordered Under the Mental Health Act 1983 and Mental Capacity Act 2005: Part I" (2011) 6 Clinical Ethics 11-14, with J. Miola.

"The Best Interests Principle and Providing Treatment for Adults Without Capacity in England and Wales" (2010) 5 Clinical Ethics 180-183, with J. Miola.

"The Legal Status of the Fetus" (2010) 5 Clinical Ethics 122-124, with J. Miola.

"When Should Preaution Prevail? Interests in (Public) Health, The Risk of Harm and Xenotransplantation (2010) 18 Medical Law Review 302-329, with S. Ost.

"One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? The GMC, the Common Law and 'Informed' Consent" (2010) 36 Journal of Medical Ethics 494-497, with J. Miola.

"Research and Adults Without Capacity" (2010) 5 Clinical Ethics, 63-66, with J Miola.

"How Much Information Is 'Enough'?" (2010) 5 Clinical Ethics 13-15, with J. Miola

"A Plea for Precaution with Public Health: The Xenotransplantation Example" (2009) 4 Clinical Ethics 119-124, with S. Ost.

"'Oh Pick Me, Pick Me': Selecting Participants for Xenotransplant Clinical Trials" (2007) 15 Medical Law Review 176-219.

"Re D (A Child appearing by her Guardian ad litem): Assisting Conception for the Single Infertile" (2006) 18 Child and Family Law Quarterly 423-444.

"A Brief Guide to the Human Tissue Act 2004" (2006) 1 Clinical Ethics 26-32, with M. Brazier.

"Consenting to Bio-Risk: Xenotransplantation and the Law" (2005) 25 Legal Studies 404-430.

"A Leap of Faith? Sanctioning Xenotransplant Clinical Trials" (2005) 26 Liverpool Law Review 125-147.

"The Law's Response to Pregnancy and Childbirth: Consistency, Conflict or Compromise?" (2002) 65 Modern Law Review 290-303.

"Making Decisions for Adults with Learning Disabilities: Who Decides?" (2000) 10 Mental Health Care, Special Edition on Primary Care 341-344, with K. Keywood.

"Policing Pregnancy: Implications of the Attorney-General's Reference (No. 3 of 1994)" (1998) 6 Medical Law Review 265-296, with J. Miola.

"Re MB [1997] 8 Med. LR 217" (1998) 20 Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 427-437

Forthcoming Publications

'Bioethical conflict and developing biotechnologies: Is protecting individual and public health from the risks of xenotransplantation a matter for the (criminal) law?' in A. Alghrani, R. Bennett, S. Ost (eds.)(Cambridge University Press, 2012).

'The (ab)use of those with no other hope? Ethical and legal safeguards for the first recipients of experimental procedures' Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics.

'The Human Embryo and Biomedical Research in the UK' in Biolaw: An International Perspective on the Human Embryo (2012), in English and translated into Spanish.

External Appointments

2010 ESRC peer reviewer

2009 PhD External Examiner, Law School University of Newcastle upon Tyne: 'Women's Empowerment versus the Sanctity of Life: The Law and the Politics of Family Planning in Nigeria and the United Kingdom - A Comparative Analysis'.

2005-9 External Examiner, LLM Health Care Ethics and Law, Law School, University of Huddersfield.

2004-8 External Examiner, MSc Health Care Ethics, Department of Primary Care, Liverpool University.

I am a peer reviewer for a number of referred journals including the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, Child and Family Law Quarterly, Medical Law International, Bioethics, Genomics, Society and Policy, Medical Law Review, and the Journal of Medical Ethics.

Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database

Sara Fovargue has 18 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

Fovargue, Sara and Miola, Jose (2010) How much information is 'enough'? Clinical Ethics, 5 (1). pp. 13-15. ISSN 1758-101X

Fovargue, Sara and Miola, Jose (2010) One step forward, two steps back? The GMC, the common law and 'informed' consent. Journal of Medical Ethics, 36 (8). pp. 494-497. ISSN 0306-6800

Fovargue, Sara J. and Miola, Jose (2010) Research and Adults without Capacity. Clinical Ethics, 5 (2). pp. 63-66. ISSN 1758-101X

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

Fovargue, Sara and Ost, Suzanne (2009) A plea for precaution with public health : the xenotransplantation example. Clinical Ethics, 4 (3). pp. 119-124. ISSN 1758-101X

Fovargue, Sara (2007) 'Oh pick me, pick me' : selecting participants for xenotransplant clinical trials. Medical Law Review, 15 (2). pp. 176-219. ISSN Online ISSN 1464-3790 - Print ISSN 0967-0742

Fovargue, Sara (2006) Re R (A Child Appearing by her Guardian ad litem) : assisting conception for the single infertile. Child and Family Law Quarterly, 18 (3). pp. 423-444. ISSN ISSN (printed): 1358-8184. ISSN (electronic): 1742-6618.

Fovargue, Sara J. (2005) A Leap of Faith? Sanctioning Xenotransplant Clinical Trials. Liverpool Law Review, 26 (2). pp. 125-147. ISSN 0144-932X

Fovargue, Sara (2005) Consenting to bio-risk : xenotransplantation and the law. Legal Studies, 25 (3). pp. 404-429. ISSN ISSN (printed): 0261-3875. ISSN (electronic): 1748-121X.

Fovargue, Sara (2002) The law's response to pregnancy and childbirth : consistency, conflict or compromise? Modern Law Review, 65 (2). pp. 290-303. ISSN ISSN (printed): 0026-7961. ISSN (electronic): 1468-2230.

Associated Keywords: Animals, Bioethics, Biotechnology, Children, Choice, Clinical research, Ethics, Family law, Feminist perspectives, Gender and the law, Genetics, Genomics, Health care, Human reproduction, Law, Learning disabilities, Medical and health-care law, Medical ethics, Medicalisation, Medical law, Medical law and ethics, New health technologies, Participatory research, Regulation, Research ethics, Risk, Science, technology and society