Margaret Brazier

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Margaret Rosetta "Margot" Brazier OBE FRSA FBA FMedSci is a professor at the University of Manchester's School of Law. [1]

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Margaret is married to Rodney Brazier, a professor of constitutional law also at the University of Manchester.

Academic work

Brazier researches legal issues in the field of medicine, including medical ethics. [1] She is a barrister, ex-member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (1998-2001), [2] Editor of the Medical Law Review, [3] and ex-president of the Society of Legal Scholars (formerly, Society of Public Teachers of Law) (1997-1999). [4] Brazier was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2014, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. [5]

She has chaired a number of committees, including:

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