Charles Foster is a Fellow of Green Templeton College, a Research Associate at the Ethox and HeLEX Centres, University of Oxford, and a practising barrister. His current research interests concern human enhancement, theories of dignity, the limits of autonomy and problems of personalization in dementia. His practice at the Bar is entirely in medical law. He has been involved in many of the key cases in recent years, including Purdy in the House of Lords and Tony Nicklinson?s attempt to invoke the defence of necessity as a defence to medical murder.
A few representative publications are listed below. A full list of publications is here
Books
Medical Law: A Very Short Introduction: Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2013
Dementia: Law and Ethics: Hart (with Jonathan Herring and Israel Doron), forthcoming, 2014
Human dignity in bioethics and law: Hart, 2011
Medical Law Precedents: Wildy, 2010
Choosing Life, choosing Death ? The Tyranny of Autonomy in Medical Law and Ethics: Hart, 2009
Medical mistakes: Claerhout Law Publishers, 2008
Elements of Medical Law: Claerhout Law Publishers, 2008, and Barry Rose Law Publishers, 2005
Regulating Health Care Quality: Legal and Professional Issues: Butterworth Heinemann/Elsevier Science (Editor with John Tingle and Kay Wheat)
Clinical Guidelines: Law, policy and practice: Cavendish, 2002 (editor with John Tingle).
Civil Advocacy: Cavendish (with Charles Bourne, Jacqui Gilliatt and Prashant Popat): 2nd Ed. 2001
Drafting: Cavendish, 2nd Ed. 2001 (with Elmer Doonan). Published also in Chinese, 2008.
Clinical confidentiality: Monitor Press, 2000 (with Nick Peacock)
Disclosure and Confidentiality: FT Law and Tax, 1996 (with T. Wynn and N. Ainley)
Book chapters
The relationship between medical ethics, law and professionalism, in Medical Ethics and Law At a Glance, Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming, 2013
What is health? In Current Legal Issues, OUP, 2013 (with Jonathan Herring)
Report writing and appearing in court: in Wildlife Forensics: Principles and Practice, Ed John and Margaret Cooper, Taylor and Francis, forthcoming, 2013
Veterinary Negligence: in Professional Negligence and Liability, Ed Mark Simpson, Informa/LLP, 2012 (and in previous editions since 2008)
The Carmentis Machine: Legal and ethical issues in the use of neuroimaging to guide treatment withdrawal in newborn infants (with Dominic Wilkinson). In Law and Neuroscience,Ed Michael Freeman, Current Legal Issues Vol. 13, OUP, 2011
Pre-trial clinical negligence issues: In Patient Safety Law: Policy and Practice, Ed John Tingle and Pippa Bark, Routledge, 2011
Challenging the Inquiry: In Public Inquiries, Ed. Jason Beer, OUP, 2011
Oral feeding difficulties and dilemmas: A guide to practical care, particularly towards the end of life: Royal College of Physicians, London (co-author: member of Working Party), 2010
What is the criminal law for? Chapter in ?Advancing Opportunity: routes in and out of criminal justice?, Ed Rob Allen, Smith Institute.
Family law in the Caucasus and Central Asia: 1800: In Encyclopaedia of Women and Islam: Brill Press, 2006
It should be, therefore it is: In Medical Law: Text, Cases and Materials, Oxford University Press: Ed. Emily Jackson, 2006.
Personal Injury Law and Precedents: Jordans/APIL: (contributor) 2006 and subsequent editions to 2010.
Disciplinary jurisdiction over the medical and other healthcare professions, in Regulating Health Care Quality: Legal and Professional Issues: Butterworth Heinemann/Elsevier Science (Editor, Foster, Tingle and Wheat), 2004
Civil procedure, trial issues and clinical guidelines, in Clinical Guidelines: Law, policy and practice: Cavendish, 2002 (Edited Foster and Tingle)
Negligence: the legal perspective. In Nursing Law and Ethics: Blackwell Scientific. 2nd Ed, 2002, and subsequent editions in 2006,  2009 and 2013). Ed. Tingle and Cribb.
Healthcare Law: The impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 (Ed. Garwood-Gowers, Tingle and Lewis): Cavendish, 2001: Chapter on Access, Procedure and the Human Rights Act 1998 in Medical Cases.
Articles
Submitted
Autonomy in the courtroom: a principle fit for purpose? Journal of Moral Philosophy (invited contribution for the Essex Autonomy project special issue of JMP)
Forthcoming
When autonomy kills: the case of Ben Garci (with Mirko Garasic) Medicine and Law
Published
Response to McGee re The Double Effect Effect (with Jonathan Herring, Karen Melham and Tony Hope): Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
The elephant in the (board) room: the role of contract research organisations in international clinical research (with Aisha Malik): American Journal of Bioethics (2012) 12(11) 49-50
Putting dignity to work: The Lancet (2012) 379: 9831; 2044-2045
Should female cosmetic genital surgery and genital piercing be regarded ethically and legally as female genital mutilation? (with Brenda Kelly): British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 2012: DOI 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2011.03260x
?Please don?t tell me?: The right not to know. (with Jonathan Herring). Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (2012) 21, 20-29
Welfare means relationality, virtue and altruism (with Jonathan Herring), Legal Studies 480
If you ask the wrong question, you?ll get the wrong answer: Journal of Medical Ethics: 2012: doi. 10.1136/mediethics-2012-100682
What sort of DNAR order is that? (with Tony Hope), Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (2012) 105; 279
Dignity and the ownership of body parts: Journal of Medical Ethics, doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-100763
Assisted Suicide: Engaging with the debate: Living and Dying Well, November 2012
The Double Effect Effect (with Jonathan Herring, Karen Melham and Tony Hope): Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (2011) 20(1): 46-55
Autonomy, Consent and the law: Review of the book of that name, by Sheila McLean: Mortality: 15(2): 178-179
?Please don?t tell me?: The Right Not to Know? (2011) 21 Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (with Jonathan Herring) 1-10
Autonomy should chair, not rule: The Lancet, Vol. 375(9712):368-69
Why doctors should get a life: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 102(12) 519-520
Autonomy and Welfare as Amici curiae (with Mikey Dunn): Medical Law Review, 2010
Turning a blind eye to crime: health professionals and the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (with Tony Hope and Sally Hope): British Journal of General Practice 60(570); 64-65(2)
Abortion: Three perspectives. Review of the book of that name by Tooley, Devine and Jaggar: Contemporary Review
Bad laws: Review of the book of that name, by Philip Johnston, Contemporary Review, Winter 2010
Advance directives and personality-changing illness: British Journal of Nursing (2010) Vol 19, No. 15; 926-927
Medical law too often doffs its cap to the doctor?s white coat: The Times, 21 May 2009, Law p. 66
The NHS should not treat self-inflicted illness: Oxford University online debate with Dr. Mark Sheehan
Blaming the patient: Contributory negligence in medical malpractice litigation (with Jonathan Herring): Professional Negligence (2009) Vol. 25(2): 76-90
Animal-Human hybrids: Do theology or philosophy help? Law and Justice: (2008) No. 160: 6-12
Nutritional support at the end of life: legal issues: European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology 19(5): 389 (May 2007)
Simple rationality? The law of healthcare resource allocation in England. Journal of Medical Ethics, 2007; 33: 404-407
Should nurses perform surgical abortion? Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care (2007) Vol. 33(3): 221
Blair?s laws: an audit of a depressing decade: Contemporary Review, Autumn 2007, p. 304
Submissions from non-existent claimants: The non-identity problem and the law : Medicine and Law: Volume 25 Number 1 (March 2006) (with Professor Tony Hope and Dr. John McMillan)
Always look on the bright side of life: The case of Re MB: Healthcare Risk Report, June 2006, Vol. 12(7): p. 23
The edge of life and the edge of the law: Re MB. Family Law Journal, June 2006, No. 67: p. 8
The role of clinical guidelines in medical negligence litigation: A shift from the Bolam standard? : (with Ash Samanta, Michelle Mello, John Tingle and Jo Samanta): Medical Law Review, 14, Autumn 2006 pp.321-366
Law and the Brain (Review): British Journal of Psychiatry (2006) 189: 570
Will clinical guidelines replace judges? Medicine and Law (2006), Vol. 25: 4: 586-592
Misrepresentations about prognosis and palliative options: some legal considerations: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, January 2005.
What is man, that the judges are mindful of him? Lessons from the PVS cases: Journal of Philosophy, Science and Law, Vol. 5, September 2005
What autonomy really means: British Medical Journal: 2005; 331: 841-2 (8 October 2005)
?Pro-choice? ought to mean exactly what it says: The Times: 11 October 2005: Law section p. 10
Burke: A tale of unhappy endings: Journal of Personal Injury Law: December 2005, p. 293: [2005] JPIL Issue 4/05: 293 and on the website of the UK Clinical Ethics Network.
Pro-life lobby and its pyrrhic victories: The Times, 26 October 2004: Law section, p. 5
Those about to die must be told all the facts: (Issues of consent in euthanasia): The Times, 3 June 2003: Law section, p. 5
International law: Another casualty of the Iraq War? Contemporary Review, August 2003, p. 76
The questions to ask a husband (or wife) before sex (R v Mohammed Dica): The Times, 21 October 2003: Law Section, p. 6
The price of super-specialism: The demise of the common lawyer: New Law Journal, Vol. 152 No. 7046: p. 1297 (6 September 2002)
Consent and confidentiality: Legal implications of electronic transmission of prescriptions
(With Professor Joy Wingfield): Pharmaceutical Journal, 7 September 2002, (Vol. 269), p. 328.
Plunge in the deep end of the gene pool: The Times, 19 November 2002: Law section p. 4
Fifty glorious legal years? English law during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II: Contemporary Review, December 2002, p. 321

Dr Nazila Ghanea is University Lecturer in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Kellogg College (BA Keele, MA Leeds, PhD Keele, MA Oxon). She was the founding editor of the international journal of Religion and Human Rights and now serves on its Editorial Board as well as the Advisory Board of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. She has been a visiting academic at a number of institutions including Columbia and NYU, and previously taught at the University of London and Keele University, UK and in China. Nazila’s research spans freedom of religion or belief, freedom of expression, women’s rights, minority rights and human rights in the Middle East. Her publications include nine books, three UN publications as well as a number of journal articles and reports. Her research has been funded by the Open Society Institute, the UK Arts and Humanities Research Board and the UK Economic and Social Research Council. She has been invited to address UN expert seminars on four occasions. She is currently part of a research term investigating ‘Religion and Belief, Discrimination and Equality in England and Wales: Theory, Policy and Practice’ (2010-2013). She has also received a number of university scholarships and academic awards. Nazila has acted as a human rights consultant/expert for a number of governments, the UN, UNESCO, OSCE, Commonwealth, Council of Europe and the EU. She has facilitated international human rights law training for a range of professional bodies around the world, lectured widely and carried out first hand human rights field research in a number of countries including Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. She is a regular contributor to the media on human rights matters. This coverage has included BBC World Service, BBC Woman’s Hour, The Times, Radio Free Europe, The Guardian, Avvenire, The Telegraph, The National (UAE), New Statesman, Sveriges Radio, TA3 Slovakia and El Pais.

Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger is the Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford. His research focuses on the role of information in a networked economy. Earlier he spent ten years on the faculty of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Professor Mayer-Schönberger has published seven books, as well as over a hundred articles (including in Science) and book chapters. His most recent book, the awards-winning 'Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age' (Princeton University Press 2009) has received favorable reviews by academic (Nature, Science, New Scientist) and mainstream media (New York Times, Guardian, Le Monde, NPR, BBC, Wired) and has been published in four languages. Ideas proposed in the book have now become official policy, e.g. of the European Union. A native Austrian, Professor Mayer-Schönberger founded Ikarus Software in 1986, a company focusing on data security, and developed Virus Utilities, which became the best-selling Austrian software product. He was voted Top-5 Software Entrepreneur in Austria in 1991 and Person-of-the-Year for the State of Salzburg in 2000. He chaired the Rueschlikon Conference on Information Policy, is the cofounder of the SubTech conference series, and served on the ABA/AALS National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists. He is on the advisory boards of corporations and organizations around the world, including Microsoft and the World Economic Forum. He is a personal adviser to the Austrian Finance Minister on innovation policy. He holds a number of law degrees, including one from Harvard and an MS(Econ) from the London School of Economics, and while in high school won national awards for his programming and the Physics Olympics of his home state. In his spare time, he likes to travel, go to the movies, and learn about architecture.

Anna Russell is the Louwes Fellow at the University of Oxford, where she also teaches an international law course at the Centre for the Environment. She has a DPhil in law from the University of Oxford, a JD from the University of Ottawa, and a BScE(Hons) in environmental engineering from Queen’s University, Canada. She is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada (Barrister and Solicitor). Over the last decade and a half, Anna has worked on environmental and development projects in Bolivia, Peru, South Africa, Germany, the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. She has undertaken legal consultancy work for various international organizations, government departments and NGOs. With a particular focus on development issues, her main areas of interest are international environmental law and international human rights law. Current research projects include an empirical investigation into the integration of human rights into development cooperation, as well as an edited book on the human right to water. At present, Anna is a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law Faculty (Human Rights Programme).

Andrew Shacknove (AB Bowdoin; PhD Yale; JD Harvard; MA, Oxon). University Lecturer in Law and Director of Legal Studies, University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education and Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.

Formerly a lawyer with UNHCR in Malaysia, Dr Shacknove was for many years a consultant with the United Kingdom Home Office Asylum Division. Between 1990 and 1993 he was Joyce Pearce Research Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

He is Co-Director of the Oxford/George Washington University Summer Programme in International Human Rights Law and Academic Adviser to the Adilisha Project of human rights training in southern Africa.

Special Interests: Public International Law, Human Rights and Forced Migration.

Link to Public International Law @ Oxford

Federico Varese is Professor of Criminology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. He maintains active research links with the Centre in his capacity as Research Associate.

John Vella is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation and a member of the Faculty of Law at Oxford. John studied law at the University of Malta (BA and LLD) and the University of Cambridge (LLM and PhD). Following the completion of his PhD he joined the Faculty of Law at Oxford as Norton Rose Career Development Fellow in Company Law where he taught Company Law, Corporate Finance Law, EC Law and Roman Law, before moving to his current post.

John has been a Program Affiliate Scholar at New York University and has acted as a co-arbitrator in a tax dispute before the ICC International Court of Arbitration. He gave evidence: before the House of Lords EU Sub- Commmittee A on Financial Transaction Taxes in November 2011; before the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards  on the role of tax in relation to banking standards and culture in January 2013; and before the House of Lords EU Sub- Commmittee A again on Financial Transaction Taxes  in March 2013. 

His recent research has focused on tax avoidance, revenue authorities' discretionary powers and the taxation and regulation of the financial sector in the aftermath of the financial crisis.

Christopher Whelan is Associate Director of International Law Programmes at the University's Department for Continuing Education. Before that he was Senior Lecturer in law at the University of Warwick and Research Associate at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. He is also a practising barrister (specialising in employment law) at 3 Paper Buildings, Temple.