Professor Sheelagh McGuinness
BA (Galway), LLB (Galway), MA (Manchester), PhD (Manchester)
Current positions
Professor of Law
University of Bristol Law School
Contact
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Research interests
- health law
- regulation of reproduction
- gender and law
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
workshop on migrant women and access to reproductive health care in Brighton, Sussex, February 2023
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
for workshop on migrant women and access to reproductive health care in Brighton, Sussex, February 2023Managing organisational unit
University of Bristol Law SchoolDates
07/09/2022 to 05/01/2024
Balancing Best Interests in Health Care, Ethics and Law (BABEL)
Principal Investigator
Role
Collaborator
Description
The project explores healthcare decisions that are made in the “best interests” of patients who are unable to make decisions for themselves because they lack (what the law calls) mental…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/09/2018 to 31/08/2023
The Abortion Act 1967: a Promise Fulfilled?
Principal Investigator
Description
The Abortion Act was passed on 27 October 1967, at the vanguard of a wave of liberalising change across the western world and directly inspiring reform in a number of…Managing organisational unit
University of Bristol Law SchoolDates
01/03/2017 to 01/12/2017
Death Before Life
Principal Investigator
Description
'Death before Birth' is a two-year ESRC-funded project, running from 2016-18. Through it, we aim to examine how people in England who have experienced miscarriage, termination for fetal abnormality, and…Managing organisational unit
University of Bristol Law SchoolDates
01/09/2016 to 31/08/2018
Publications
Recent publications
01/01/2025The Harms of Criminal and Coronial Investigation in the Context of Reproductive Loss
Criminal Law Review
Ambivalent Parallels in Registration and Certification of (Live) Birth, Stillbirth, and Miscarriage
The Routledge Handbook of Law and Death
Abortion, criminal law, and transgression
Women's Studies International Forum
Maternity healthcare professionals' experiences of supporting women in decision-making for labour and birth
BMJ Open
Vaginal birth core information set
BMJ Open
Related people
Professor Richard Huxtable
Professor of Medical Ethics and Law
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Dr Danya Bakhbakhi
Academic Clinical Lecturer in Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Bristol Medical School (THS)
Dr Gemma Clayton
Research Fellow in Health Data Science
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Dr Anna Davies
Research Fellow
Bristol Medical School (THS)
Professor John Coggon
Chair in Law
University of Bristol Law School