Margaret Rosetta "Margot" Brazier OBE KC (Hon) FRSA FBA FMedSci is a professor at the University of Manchester's School of Law.[1]
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:
- Chair of the Animal Procedures Committee 1993–98.[6]
- Chair of Review of Surrogacy Arrangements 1996–98.[7][8]
- Chair of the Retained Organs Commission 2001–2004.[9]
- Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics Working Party The Ethics of Prolonging Life in Fetuses and the Newborn 2004–2006.[10]