Imogen Goold
Professor of Medical Law
Faculty officer role(s):
Access and Outreach Co-ordinator
Biography
Imogen Goold studied Law and Modern History at the University of Tasmania, Australia, receiving her PhD in 2005. Her doctoral research explored the use of property law to regulate human body parts. She also received a Masters degree in Bioethics from the University of Monash in 2005. From 1999, she was a research member of the Centre for Law and Genetics, where she published on surrogacy laws, legal constraints on access to infertility treatments and proprietary rights in human tissue. In 2002, she took up as position as a Legal Officer at the Australian Law Reform Commission, working on the inquiries into Genetic Information Privacy and Gene Patenting. After leaving the ALRC in 2004, she worked briefly at the World Health Organisation, researching the provision of genetic medical services in developing countries. She is now examining the impact of moral arguments on the regulation of IVF and also writing a book based on her work on body part ownership.
Publications
GOOLD I and Auckland C, ‘Offsetting Damages in Wrongful Conception and Birth Cases: A Way Through the Post-McFarlane Mire’ [2022] The Law Quarterly Review
Auckland C and Goold I, ‘Resolving Disagreement: A Multi-Jurisdictional Comparative Analysis of Disputes about Children’s Medical Care’ (2020) 28(4) Medical Law Review 643
Goold I, ‘Access to IVF in the time of COVID-19’ [2020] BioNews
Auckland C and Goold I, ‘Parental Rights, Best Interests and Significant Harms: Who Should Have the Final Say over a Child’s Medical Care?’ (2019) 78(2) Cambridge Law Journal 287
Goold I and Auckland C, ‘Defining the Limits of Parental Authority: Charlie Gard, Best Interests and the Risk of Significant Harm Threshold (Casenote)’ [2018] Law Quarterly Review
Goold I, ‘Trust Women to Choose: A Response to John A Robertson’s ‘Egg Freezing and Egg Banking: Empowerment and Alienation in Assisted Reproduction’’ [2017] Journal of Law and the Biosciences
Douglas S and Goold I, ‘Property in Human Biomaterials: A New Methodology’ [2016] Cambridge Law Journal
Goold I and Maslen H, ‘Obliging surgeons to enhance: negligence liability for uncorrected fatigue and problems with proving causation’ (2014) 23(3) Medical Law Review 427
Goold I and others, ‘Introduction to ’Persons, Parts and Property’’
Goold I and Maslen H, ‘Must the surgeon take the pill? Negligence duty in the context of cognitive enhancement’ (2014) 77(1) Modern Law Review 60
Goold I, ‘Why Does It Matter How We Regulate the Use of Human Body Parts?’ (2014) 40(1) Journal of Medical Ethics 3
Goold I and others, ‘The Human Body as Property? Possession, Control and Commodification (The Concise Argument)’ (2014) 40(1) Journal of Medical Ethics 1
Goold I and others, ‘The human body as property? Possession, control and commodification’ (2013) 40(1) Journal of Medical Ethics 1
Goold I, ‘Property or not property? The spectrum of approaches to regulating the use of human bodily material.’ (2013) 21(2) Journal of Law and Medicine 299
Goold I, ‘Withholding artificial nutrition and hydration.’ (2013) 39(9) Journal of Medical Ethics 541
Skene L, Goold I and Herring J, ‘Guest editorial: Regulating the use of human bodily material’ (2013) 21 Journal of Law and Medicine 245
Goold I, ‘The Concise Argument: Withholding Artificial Nutrition and Hydration’ (2013) 39(9) Journal of Medical Ethics 541
Goold I, ‘The Concise Argument: Highlights from this issue’ (2012) 38(3) Journal of Medical Ethics 133
Savulescu J and Goold I, ‘Freezing eggs for lifestyle reasons.’ (2008) 8(6) The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB 32
Goold I and others, ‘Quality and safety of genetic testing in Australia and New Zealand: a review of the current regulatory framework.’ (2006) 3 Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 13
Goold I, ‘Sounds Suspiciously like Property Treatment: Does Human Tissue Fit within the Common Law Concept of Property?’ (2006) 7 UTS Law Review Santa Clara Journal of International Law, Special Joint Issue
Goold I, ‘Should older and postmenopausal women have access to assisted reproductive technology?’ (2005) 24(1) Monash Bioethics Review 27
Goold I, ‘Surrogacy: is there a case for legal prohibition?’ (2004) 12(2) Journal of Law and Medicine 205
Goold I, ‘Protestant Female Martyrdom’ (2004) 10(2) Magistra: A Journal of Women’s Spirituality in History 60
Goold I, ‘Tissue donation: ethical guidance and legal enforceability.’ (2004) 11(3) Journal of Law and Medicine 331
Goold I, ‘Property and Human Tissue – Case Examples’ [2002] Centre for Law and Genetics Occasional Paper Series
Goold I, ‘Tissue Donation: When Does Ethical Guidance Become Legal Enforceability?’ [2001] Centre for Law and Genetics Occasional Paper Series
Fraser J and others, ‘External Second Opinions: Building Trust between Health Professionals and Families’ Archives of Disease in Childhood
Goold I, ‘Digital Tracking Medication: Big Promise or Big Brother?’ Law, Innovation and Technology
Goold I, ‘Recognising What is Lost in Reproductive Harms: Whittington Hospital NHS Trust v XX [2020] UKSC 14 (case note)’ The Modern Law Review
Goold I and Kelly C, ‘Who’s Afraid of Imaginary Claims? Common Misunderstandings of the Origin of the Action for Pure Psychiatric Injury in Negligence 1888-1943’ The Law Quarterly Review
Auckland C and Goold I, ‘Claiming in Contract for Wrongful Conception (casenote)’ The Law Quarterly Review
Auckland C and Goold I, ‘Re-evaluating ‘best interests’ in the wake of Raqeeb v Barts NHS Foundation Trust & Anors [2019] EWHC 2531 (Admin)’ The Modern Law Review
Goold I and Herring J, Great Debates in Medical Law and Ethics (Palgrave 2018)
Goold I, Flesh and Blood: Owning Our Bodies Their Parts (Hart Publishing 2015)
Herring J and Goold I, Medical Law and Ethics: Great Debates (Palgrave 2014)
Goold I and Kelly C, ‘Time to Cut Ties: Reforming the Secondary Victim ‘Control Mechanisms’ in Pure Psychiatric Injury’ in J Gardner, S Steel and J Morgan (eds.), Reflecting on Tort Law: Celebrating Jane Stapleton (Oxford University Press 2024)
REYNOLDS M, ‘Conclusions’ (Open Book 2023)
Goold I, Auckland C and Herring J, ‘Introduction’ in I Goold, C Auckland and J Herring (eds.), Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Young Children: A Comparative Perspective (Hart Publishing 2020)
Goold I, Auckland C and Herring J, ‘Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Children in English and Welsh Law: A Child-Centred Best Interests Approach’ in I Goold, C Auckland and J Herring (eds.), Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Young Children: A Comparative Perspective (Hart Publishing 2020)
Goold I, ‘Evaluating Best Interests as a Threshold for Judicial Intervention’ in I Goold, J Herring and C Auckland (eds.), Parental Rights, Best Interests and Significant Harms: Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Children Post-Great Ormond Street Hospital v Yates (Hart Publishing 2019)
Goold I, ‘Evaluating ‘Best Interests’ as a Threshold for Judicial Intervention in Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Children’ in I Goold, J Herring and C Auckland (eds.), Parental Rights, Best Interests and Significant Harms
Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Children Post-Great Ormond Street Hospital v Gard (Hart Publishing 2019)
Goold I, Auckland C and Herring J, ‘Introduction’, Parental Rights, Best Interests and Significant Harms Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Children Post-Great Ormond Street Hospital v Gard (2019)
Goold I, ‘Property Rights in Bodily Material’ in I Freckleton and K Petersen (eds.), Tensions and Traumas in Health Law (Federation Press 2017)
Goold I, ‘Postponing Motherhood: Ethico-Legal Perspectives on Access to Artificial Reproductive Technologies’ in L P Francis (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Reproductive Ethics (Oxford University Press 2017)
Goold I, ‘Late-in-Life Motherhood: Ethico-Legal Perspectives on the Postponement of Childbearing and Access to Artificial Reproductive Technologies’ in L Francis (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Reproductive Ethics (Oxford University Press 2017)
Goold I, ‘The Legal Aspects of Cognitive Enhancement’ in R Ter Meulen, W Hall and A Mohamed (eds.), Rethinking Cognitive Enhancement (Oxford University Press 2017)
Goold I, ‘Philosophy and Restrictions on Access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies’ in J Herring and A Phillips (eds.), Philosophical Foundations of Medical Law (Oxford University Press 2017)
Goold I, ‘A, B, and C v Ireland’ in J Herring and J Wall (eds.), Landmark Cases in Medical Law (Hart 2015)
Goold I and Maslen H, ‘Responsibility Enhancement and the Law of Negligence’, Handbook of Neuroethics (Springer Nature 2015)
Goold I and Maslen H, ‘Responsibility enhancement and the law’ in J Clausen and N Levy (eds.), Handbook of Neuroethics (Springer 2014)
Goold I, ‘ABC v Ireland’ in J Herring and J Wall (eds.), Landmark Cases in Medical Law (Hart Publishing 2014)
Goold I and others, ‘Conclusion to ’Persons, Parts and Property’’ in I Goold and others (eds.), Persons, Parts and Property: How Should We Regulate Human Tissue in the 21st Century? (Hart 2014)
Goold I, ‘Abandonment and Human Tissue’ in I Goold and others (eds.), Persons, Parts and Property: How Should We Regulate Human Tissue in the 21st Century? (Hart 2014)
Goold I and others, ‘Introduction’ in I Goold and others (eds.), Persons, Parts and Property: How Should We Regulate Human Tissue in the 21st Century? (Hart 2014)
Goold I and Quigley M, ‘Human Biomaterials: The Case for a Property Approach’ in I Goold and others (eds.), Persons, Parts and Property: How Should We Regulate Human Tissue in the 21st Century? (Hart 2014)
Goold I and Kelly C, ‘Lawyers’ Medicine: The Interaction of the Medical Profession and the Law, 1760-2000’ in I Goold and C Kelly (eds.), Lawyers’ Medicine: The Historical Interaction of Medicine and the Legislature, 1760-2000 (Hart Publishing 2009)
Goold I, ‘Regulating Reproduction in the United Kingdom: Doctors’ Voices, 1978–1985’ in I Goold and C Kelly (eds.), Lawyers’ Medicine: The Historical Interaction of Medicine and the Legislature, 1760-2000 (Hart Publishing 2009)
Goold I and Auckland C, ‘Legal and Cultural Differences in Medical Decision-Making on behalf of Very Young Children’ in I Goold, C Auckland and J Herring (eds.), Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Young Children: A Comparative Perspective (Hart)
Goold I, ‘Property in Human Body Parts’ in C Bevan (ed.), Property Law and Theory (Edward Elgar)
Goold I and others (eds.), Persons, Parts and Property (Hart Publishing 2014)
Goold I and Kelly C, Lawyers’ Medicine: The Historical Interaction of Medicine and the Legislature, 1760-2000 (Hart Publishing 2009)
Goold I, ‘The Legal Status of Human Tissue in the 21st Century: Could a Property Approach be the Answer?’ (Australian Institute of Health, Law and Ethics conference proceedings 2000)
Goold I, ‘Book Review: The Right to Life and Conflicting Interests by E Wicks’ [2011] (5) European Human Rights Law Review 629 (review)
Goold I and Savulescu J, ‘In favour of freezing eggs for non-medical reasons.’ (2009) 23(1) Bioethics 47 (review)
Goold I and Kelly C, ‘Time to Start De Novo: The Paul, Purchase and Polmear litigation and the temporal gap problem in secondary victim claims for psychiatric injury’ Journal of Professional Negligence (case-note)