Care and the Mandate of Medical Law
Location:
Online only
Date/time
Tue 10 November 2026
13:00-14:00
About this event
The talk will provide an overview of the arguments developed in Dr Chadha Sridhar’s forthcoming book, Care and the Mandate of Medical Law.
The law of negligence is structured around the idea of care, yet legal scholarship on negligence has rarely engaged with the feminist ethics of care. This absence is striking. If care lies at the heart of negligence doctrine, shouldn't the philosophical tradition that has explored it most deeply inform our analysis? On closer inspection, the silence reflects a shared assumption that the notion of 'care' invoked in the law is entirely distinct from the interpersonal, moral notion examined by care ethicists. Care and the Mandate of Medical Law challenges that assumption.
It brings care ethics and the law of negligence into sustained conversation for the first time to develop a philosophical account of the law of medical negligence. Through this, it offers a resolution to some of the most pressing challenges plaguing medical law today.
Ira Chadha-Sridhar, Assistant Professor, University of Warwick
Ira Chadha-Sridhar is an Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick. She previously held the Hatton-WYNG Junior Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, where she also completed her PhD. Her research lies at the interface of law and philosophy, with a focus on the philosophy of care. She writes in moral philosophy, general jurisprudence, and in areas of doctrine where the concept of care carries distinctive legal significance – notably, tort law and medical law.