Medical Law Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Medical Law Review is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial: Reproductive health, choice, and justice34
The Voluntary Sterilisation Act: Best Interests, Caregivers, and Disability Rights18
James Cameron, Critically Ill Children and the Law: Medical Decision-Making and the Best Interests Principle17
Editorial: In Honour of Professor Margaret Brazier: Memories of Margot14
Post-trial access to investigational drugs in India: addressing challenges in the regulatory framework11
The relationship between capacity and credibility: implications for epistemic injustice11
Jennings v Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority [2022] EWHC 1619 (Fam): confirming the paradigm of inferred consent for posthumous conception10
When is the processing of data from medical implants lawful? The legal grounds for processing health-related personal data from ICT implantable medical devices for treatment purposes under EU data pro9
Is the categorical denial of pentobarbital for assisted suicide a violation of the constitutional right to a self-determined death in Germany?8
Intellectual property protection for traditional medical knowledge in China’s context: a round peg in a square hole?8
Professional regulation and attitudinal issues: constructing the ‘good doctor’ and the ‘bad apple’ through the device of insight8
Sue Westwood, Regulating the End of Life—Death Rights8
Fifty years of the Congenital Disabilities (Civil Liability) Act 1976: A spent statute?6
Interrogating the limits of precedent autonomy: the anomalous exclusion of basic care from the ambit of advance decisions6
Capturing the medical gaze regulating medical photography of minors with intersex variations6
Medical misogyny: understanding epistemic injustice to achieve safer healthcare for women in the UK5
The boundaries of qualification-disclosure: R (Anaesthetists United Ltd) and Others v General Medical Council [2025] EWHC 2270 (Admin)5
The social determinants of health, law, and urban development: using human rights to address structural health inequalities in our cities4
Passive patient culture in India: disrespect in law and medicine Supriya Subramani.4
Julia Duffy, Mental Capacity, Dignity and the Power of International Human Rights3
The role of the right to life in respect of deaths caused by negligence in the healthcare context3
The Delicate Balance Struck by the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Act 20243
PMC v Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board [2025] EWCA Civ 1126: Surprising disregard for jigsaw identification2
Should states restrict recipient choice amongst relevant and available COVID-19 vaccines?2
Towards a rights-based approach for disabled women’s access to abortion2
Carolyn Adams, Judy Allen, and Felicity Flack, Sharing Linked Data for Health Research: Toward Better Decision Making2
Situational status and moral incoherence in UK bio-law2
Patents over ‘technologies’ related to how we treat, use, and modify the human body: An urgent need for greater bioethics scrutiny2
Govert den Hartogh, What Kind of Death: The Ethics of Determining One’s Own Death1
Donor conception, direct-to-consumer genetic testing, choices, and procedural justice: an argument for reform of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 19901
Record linkage of routine and cohort data of children in Portugal: challenges and opportunities when using record linkage as a tool for scientific research1
Reimagining health law . Atina Krajewska and Jean McHale, eds1
Looking back to look forward—the history of VAD laws in Australia and future law reform in the Australian territories1
B v University of Aberdeen [2020] CSIH 62: Where there’s a will, there’s a way1
Mary Donnelly, Rosie Harding and Ezgi Taşcıoğlu, Supporting Legal Capacity in Socio-Legal Context1
The Health and Care Act 2022: inserting telemedicine into the Abortion Act 19671
Location, location, location: the approach of healthcare professionals in defining the artificially gestated entity1
Legal horizons and new challenges1
Let’s talk about AIDS, baby! Critiquing the HIV and AIDS Act, 2017 in India through a reproductive justice framework1
Parsing human rights, promoting health equity: reflections on Colombia’s response to Venezuelan migration1
Private by default: reasonable expectations in secondary uses of patient data1
David Orentlicher and Tamara K.Hervey (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Health Law1
Books Received0
From scalpel to statute: IVG’s impact on invasiveness and gender parity in posthumous conception0
Guy’s and St Thomas’-v-Knight [2021] EWHC 25: Dignity in English law0
Critical analysis of the EU’s legislative proposal to incentivize investment in antimicrobial R&D and access0
FemTech: empowering reproductive rights or FEM-TRAP for surveillance?0
The promise of the EU’s draft repurposing programme0
The public sector equality duty’s role in planning the commissioning of healthcare services for older patients: a justice perspective0
Jonathan Herring, The Right to Be Protected from Committing Suicide0
Mothers beyond tradition: legal and psychosocial dimensions of single motherhood through assisted reproduction in Kosovo and the Western Balkans0
Ethics, Law, and the Business of Being Human: Against Nine to Five Philosophy . Charles Foster0
R (Gardner and Harris) v Secretary of State for Health and Social care and Others [2022] EWHC 967: Scant regard for Covid-19 risk to care homes0
Inequality by design: The politics behind forced migrants’ access to healthcare0
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CCC v Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2026] UKSC 5: recovery for loss of earnings in the ‘lost years’ by an injured young child0
Daisy Cheung and Michael Dunn (eds), Advance Directives Across Asia: A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis0
Freedom isn’t free: resource limits on person-centred best interests decisions under the Mental Capacity Act0
Accommodating capacity-restoring interventions in the Mental Capacity Act 20050
Promise without delivery: why mental health law in Chile still fails its users0
Jordan A Parsons and Elizabeth Chloe Romanis, Early Medical Abortion, Equality of Access, and the Telemedical Imperative0
The Scope of a Doctor’s Duty of Care to Their Patient0
Mental capacity—why look for a paradigm shift?0
Capacity, participation, and values in comparative legal perspective. Edited by Camillia Kong, John Coggon, Penny Cooper, Michael Dunn, Alex Ruck Keene0
The Challenge of Bioinequality: Addressing the Health Impact of Unequal Treatment Through Law0
Compromise, coercion, and delay: best interests decision-making in mediation of paediatric medical treatment disputes0
Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022): consequences one year on0
Addressing the consequences of the corporatization of reproductive medicine0
What’s in a name? Abbasi and Another v Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust ; Haastrup v King’s College Hospital NHS0
Prismall v Google UK Ltd [2024] EWCA CIV 1516: misuse of private information in the medical context0
The European Organ Donation Framework: a medico-legal cartography of consent, governance, and traceability0
Bangladesh’s Mental Health Act 2018: A Critical Analysis0
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London Borough of Islington v EF [2022] EWHC 803 (FAM): falling through the great safety net of the inherent jurisdiction0
The fifty shades of black: about black box AI and explainability in healthcare0
The Welfare of Future Children: Reproductive Ethics and Disability Screening , Rebecca Bennett.0
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Jeremy Hunt, Zero: Eliminating Unnecessary Deaths in a Post-pandemic NHS0
Terminating abortion demonstrations0
Puzzles of the Liminal Dead: St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v Casey0
The role of non-genetic parents in a surrogate-born child’s identity: an argument for removal of the genetic link requirement0
Parental orders for deceased intended parents: Re X (Foreign Surrogacy: Death of Intended Parent) [2022] EWFC 340
Theodosia Stavroulaki, Healthcare, Quality Concerns and Competition Law—A Systematic Approach0
Biopolitics and reproductive autonomy in Singapore’s Termination of Pregnancy Act 19740
Nobody does it better? A judicial rationalization of judges as best interests decision-makers— RE RS (Best Interests: Surgery and Intensive Care) [2025] 0
Swati Jha and Eloise Power (eds), Lessons from Medicolegal Cases in Obstetrics and Gynaecology: Improving Clinical Practice0
Promoting quality improvement: navigating the conundrum in clinical audit record disclosure0
Paddy McQueen, Regret0
Vaccination as an Equaliser? Evaluating COVID-19 Vaccine Prioritisation and Compensation0
Legal Determinants of Health0
Oversight of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in Canada: perspectives of MAiD assessors/providers and organizational regulatory actors0
Editorial0
Plaintiff aims in medical negligence disputes: limitations of an adversarial system0
Lucy Series, Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution0
Xavier Symons, Why Conscience Matters: A Defence of Conscientious Objection in Healthcare0
Correction to: Voluntary assisted dying—Australia in an international context0
How does regulation influence euthanasia practice in Belgium? A qualitative exploration of involved doctors’ and nurses’ perspectives0
Daniel Wei Liang Wang, ‘Health Technology Assessment, Courts and the Right to Healthcare’0
Ten years on: a ‘ Montgomery map’ for healthcare professionals in the United Kingdom and Beyond0
Healthcare Services for Asylum-Seekers: Untangling the European Social Charter0
The legal determinants of health (in)justice0
ON GESTATION AND MOTHERHOOD0
THE REQUIREMENT FOR TRANS AND GENDER DIVERSE YOUTH TO SEEK COURT APPROVAL FOR THE COMMENCEMENT OF HORMONE TREATMENT: A COMPARISON OF AUSTRALIAN JURISPRUDENCE WITH THE ENGLISH DECISION IN BELL0
Fiona Kelly, Deborah Dempsey, and Adrienne Byrt (eds), Donor-Linked Family in the Digital Age: Relatedness and Regulation0
The Warnock report and partial ectogestation: retracing the past to step into the future0
Narratives of consent and reproductive subjects: tales of invisibility. Samantha Halliday, Rebecca Brione, and Jacqueline Nicholls0
Leading works in health law and ethics, Sara Fovargue and Craig Purshouse (eds)0
Anticipatory declarations in obstetric care: a relational and spatial examination of patient empowerment, institutional impacts and temporal challenges0
RELATIONSHIPS, RIGHTS, AND RESPONSIBILITIES: (RE)VIEWING THE NHS CONSTITUTION FOR THE POST-PANDEMIC ‘NEW NORMAL’0
Future Directions in Surrogacy Law: Law and Policy Reform in the UK and Beyond . Kirsty Horsey, Zaina Mahmoud and Katherine Wade (eds)0
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Between sexual autonomy and protection: siloed capacity and the drift towards risk regulation in A Local Authority v ZX [2026] EWCOP 30
The publication of impaired doctors’ identity by Australian and New Zealand tribunals: law, practice, and reform0
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024–25: A Commons milestone and a Lords reckoning0
Prescribing wearable tech0
Bo Chen, Mental Health Law in China: A Socio-Legal Analysis, Routledge, 2022, Hardback/ebook, 176 pp, £120/£33.29, ISBN 97810320790660
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SELF-ADMINISTRATION OR PRACTITIONER ADMINISTRATION? THE SCOPE OF FUTURE GERMAN ASSISTED DYING LEGISLATION0
Re QX (Parental Consent for Deprivation of Liberty: Children under 16) [2025] EWHC 745 (Fam): Parental consent and deprivation of liberty0
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