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Dr Suzanne Ost

Senior Lecturer in Law

Degree: LL.B (Hons). Ph.D - 'An Analysis of the Euthanasia Phenomenon; Questions of Law, Morality and Medical Ethics Within Contemporary Society' (awarded 2001, 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

Undergraduate: Currently teaching on Law 300 Health Care Law and Ethics (Course Convenor, lecturer and seminar leader), Law 350 Gender and the Law (lecturer and seminar leader), Law 327 Jurisprudence (lecturer and seminar leader); Law 311 Responses to Massive Violations of Human Rights (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 and LLM103 Law and the Body.

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.

My second monograph, which provides a critical analysis of the legal and social discourses surrounding child pornography and child sexual grooming and is entitled Child Pornography and Sexual Grooming: Legal and Societal Responseswas published in May 2009 (Cambridge University Press).

For details of my 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 and other aspects of medical law and ethics, child pornography/sexual grooming and other areas related to my research interests.

Additional Information

I am Associate Editor for the Medical Law Review journal and a reviewer for the Journal of Medical Ethics. I have reviewed books and book proposals for Oxford University Press, Routledge-Cavendish and Sweet and Maxwell. I have been a Peer Review Assessor for the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the NHS Research for Patient Benefit Programme.

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 and the Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture.

I am a member of the Society of Legal Scholars and the Socio-Legal Studies Association.

Career Details:

I have been a Senior Lecturer in Law at Lancaster University since September 2007. 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

Child Pornography and Sexual Grooming: Legal and Societal Responses (Cambridge University Press, 2009). http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/26017/

The Criminal Justice System and Health Care, (Oxford University Press, 2007) (joint editor with Charles A Erin).http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/26016/

An Analytical Study of the Legal, Ethical and Moral Aspects of the Living Phenomenon of Euthanasia (Edwin Mellen Press, 2003). http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/630/

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Forthcoming:

'Criminalising Fabricated Images of Child Pornography: A Matter of Harm or Morality?' (2010) 2 Legal Studies (11,417 words)

Published:

'A Plea for Precaution with Public Health: The Xenotransplantation Example' (2009) 4(3) Clinical Ethics, 119-124. With S. Fovargue. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/28199/

'"But is this law?" The nature of law, sovereign power and justice in Hamlet' (2007) 2 Law and Humanities, 31-56 http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/26005/

'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. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/26016/

'Doctors and Nurses of Death: A Case Study of Eugenically Motivated Killing under the Nazi "Euthanasia" Programme'(2006) 27 Liverpool Law Review 5 - 30. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/25955/

'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. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/26015/

'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. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/26004/

'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). http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/26002/

'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. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/25995/

'Blinking Subjects; Blinking Justice? - Law, Medicine and the PVS Patient'(2001) 23 Liverpool Law Review 1-32.http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/25993/

'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.

Recent Conference/Seminar Presentations

'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.

Other Interests and Hobbies

Playing the melodeon (a nineteenth century American reed organ). Alas, my musical talent is modest.

Associated Keywords: Child abuse and neglect, Criminal law, Cyberpornography, End of life, Law and literature, Law and society, Medical and health-care law, Medical law and ethics, Press reporting of sexual offences, Sexual offences, Shakespeare, Social-legal studies

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