Shaun Pattinson Last updated May 25, 2025 Education and career Pattinson earned his undergraduate law degree from the University of Hull . He furthered his studies at the University of Sheffield ,obtaining a master's degree and a Ph.D.
He received higher doctorates by the University of Sheffield (LLD ) and Durham University . (DLitt ). [ 3]
Pattinson took up a Lectureship in Law at the University of Sheffield in 2000 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2005. He was appointed as a Reader in Law at Durham University in 2006 and was promoted to Professor of Medical Law and Ethics in 2013. [ 4]
Research and publications Pattinson's research interests focus on medical law and medical ethics ,including the regulation of emerging technologies . He has authored several books,including:
Influencing Traits Before Birth (2002). [ 11] Revisiting Landmark Cases in Medical Law (2018). [ 12] Law at the Frontiers of Biomedicine (2023). [ 13] [ 14] Medical Law and Ethics (7th ed.,2025). [ 15] His book Medical Law and Ethics received the 2010 Minty Medico-Legal Society Prize for best medico-legal book. [ 16]
He has also published with Deryck Beyleveld . [ 17]
Recent work From 2014 to 2017,Pattinson led a project entitled ‘Human Cloning and Stem Cell Research Through the Medium of Law’,funded by the Wellcome Trust . [ 18] This involved using law to engage post-16 students in the debate over human cloning,stem cell research and mitochondrial replacement technology. [ 19] [ 20] [ 21] A finding was that UK school students had been misinformed as to how Dolly (sheep) had been cloned. [ 22] [ 23]
In January 2023,Pattinson published Law at the Frontiers of Biomedicine ,presenting a legal theory termed 'contextual legal idealism'. [ 24] [ 25] This work explores the regulation of emerging biotechnologies,such as heritable genome editing and cryonic reanimation,and was supported by a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. [ 26]
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