Kate Greasley

Associate Professor of Law

Hertford College

Biography

Kate Greasley's profile page on the Hertford College website.

Kate Greasley has been an Associate Professor of Law and Tutorial Fellow at Hertford College, Oxford, since 2018. Prior to this, she was a Lecturer in Law at University College London, and a Junior Research Fellow in Law at University College, Oxford. She completed her doctorate about the law and ethics of abortion at the University of Oxford in 2014, supervised by Professor Leslie Green. Kate's research interests span medical law and ethics, criminal law theory, feminist legal theory, and legal philosophy more broadly. To date, the topics she has written about include abortion ethics, assisted dying, property rights in human body parts, sexual offences, and pornography and free speech.

Her monograph, Arguments About Abortion: Personhood, Morality, and Law, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017, and was shortlisted for the Inner Temple Book Prize.

Kate is currently engaged in an AHRC-funded project entitled Sexual Consent in the Post-#MeToo World: A Study in Philosophy and Law.

Work in Progress

‘Mistaken Consent and Socially Reasonable Beliefs’ (draft available upon request)

Themes from the Work of Leslie Green (working title), co-edited with Thomas Adams and Denise Réaume.

Publications

Journal Article (10)

Greasley K, ‘How Omissions Aren’t Special’ [2023] CRIMINAL LAW AND PHILOSOPHY

Greasley K, ‘Sex, Reasons, Pro Tanto Wronging, and the Structure of Rape Liability’ (2021) 15(2) CRIMINAL LAW AND PHILOSOPHY 159

Greasley K, ‘The Morality of Lying and the Murderer at the Door’ (2019) 38(5-6) LAW AND PHILOSOPHY 439

Greasley K, ‘Is Sex-Selective Abortion against the Law?’ (2016) 36(3) OXFORD JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES 535

Greasley K, ‘PRENATAL PERSONHOOD AND LIFE’S INTRINSIC VALUE: REAPPRAISING DWORKIN ON ABORTION’ (2016) 22(2) LEGAL THEORY 124

Greasley K, ‘The pearl of the ’Pro-Life’ movement? Reflections on the Kermit Gosnell controversy.’ (2014) 40(6) Journal of Medical Ethics 419

Greasley K, ‘A legal market in organs: the problem of exploitation.’ (2014) 40(1) Journal of Medical Ethics 51

Goold I, Skene L, Herring J, and others, ‘The human body as property? Possession, control and commodification’ (2013) 40(1) Journal of Medical Ethics 1

Greasley K, ‘Abortion and regret.’ (2012) 38(12) Journal of Medical Ethics 705

Greasley K, ‘R(Purdy) v DPP and the Case for Wilful Blindness’ (2010) 30(2) OXFORD JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES 301

Greasley K and Kaczor C, Abortion Rights: For and Against (2018) 1

GREASLEY K, Arguments about Abortion: Personhood, Morality, and Law (Oxford University Press 2017)

Greasley K, ‘Pornography and the Limits of Speech Act Analysis’ in R CHANG and A SRINIVASAN (eds.), New Conversations in Philosophy, Law, and Politics (Oxford University Press 2024)

Greasley K, ‘Rape Trauma and Rape’s Wrongness’, From Morality to Law and Back Again (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2023)

Greasley K, ‘Silencing Without Uptake’, Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law: Volume 4 (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2020)

Greasley K, ‘Abortion, Feminism, and ’Traditional’ Moral Philosophy’ in J Herring et al (ed.), Philosophical Foundations of Medical Law (Oxford University Press 2019)

Greasley K, ‘The Right to Die and the Right to Help: R v Purdy and its Legacy’ in J Herring and J Wall (eds.), Landmark Cases in Medical Law (Hart Publishing 2015)

Goold I, Skene L, Herring J, and others, ‘Introduction’ in I Goold, J Herring, L Skene, and others (eds.), Persons, Parts and Property: How Should We Regulate Human Tissue in the 21st Century? (Hart 2014)

Greasley K, ‘The Human Body as Property: Objectification and Commodification’ in I Good, K Greasley, J Herring, and others (eds.) (Hart Publishing 2014)

Edited book (1)

Goold I, Greasley K, Herring J, and others, Persons, Parts and Property, How Should we Regulate Human Tissue in the 21st Century? (Hart Publishing 2014)

Greasley K, ‘Review of David Boonin, Beyond Roe: Why Abortion Should be Legal Even if the Fetus is a Person’ (2021) 15(3) CRIMINAL LAW AND PHILOSOPHY 535 (review)

Greasley K, ‘Review of David Boonin, Beyond Roe: Why Abortion Should be Legal Even if the Fetus is a Person’ [2021] Criminal Law and Philosophy (review)

Greasley K, ‘Review of ""Abortion Law in Transnational Perspective"", by Rebecca Cook, Joanna Erdman and Bernard Dickens’ [2016] Feminist Legal Studies 97 (review)

Greasley K, ‘Taking Abortion Rights Seriously: Whole Woman’s Health v Hellerstedt’ (2017) 80(2) MODERN LAW REVIEW 325 (case-note)

Greasley K, ‘Medical abortion and the ’golden rule’ of statutory interpretation. BPAS v the Secretary of State for Health [2011] EWHC 235.’ (2011) 19(2) Medical Law Review 314 (case-note)

Greasley K, ‘A Negligent Blow to Children at Risk: MAK and RK v the United Kingdom’ (2010) 73(6) Modern Law Review 1026 (case-note)

Edwards J, Greasley K and Perry A, ‘Introduction by the Guest Editors’ (2023) Cambridge University Press (CUP) 89