Festschrift for Professor Graeme Laurie published
Tue 17 May 2022
An edited volume marking the exceptional legacy of Edinburgh Law School's Professor Graeme Laurie has been published by Cambridge University Press (CUP).
Law and Legacy in Medical Jurisprudence: Essays in Honour of Graeme Laurie, edited by Edinburgh Law School's Dr Edward Dove and Prof Niamh Nic Shuibhne, contains a collection of essays that explore Prof Laurie's extraordinary scholarship and impact in the field of Medical Jurisprudence.
The edited collection covers a range of subjects to which Prof Laurie has made – and continues to make – a remarkable contribution during his more than 25 years in academia to date.
In their introduction to the volume, Dr Dove and Prof Nic Shuibhne write:
'Graeme Laurie stepped down from the Chair in Medical Jurisprudence at the University of Edinburgh in 2019. This edited collection pays tribute to his extraordinary contributions to the field. Graeme has often spoken about the importance of ‘legacy’ in academic work and has forged a remarkable intellectual legacy of his own, notably through his work on genetic privacy, human tissue and information governance, and the regulatory salience of the concept of liminality. The chapters in this volume animate the concept of legacy as a lens of analysis for the study and practice of medical jurisprudence. In this light, legacy reveals characteristics of both benefit and burden, as both a facilitator of and an encumbrance to the development of law, policy and regulation. Overall, the contributions reconcile the ideas of legacy and responsiveness and show that both dimensions are critical to achieve and sustain the health of medical jurisprudence itself as a dynamic, interdisciplinary and policy-engaged field of thinking.'
In a recent review by Professor Emma Cave, Professor of Health Law at Durham University she states:
'Legacy is collective as well as individual; negative as well as positive. The reader is left with an appreciation of Laurie’s individual legacy and his contribution to the collective legacy of medical jurisprudence. Particularly importantly for me, the collection of essays provides valuable insight into how that legacy might be positively developed through Laurie’s example of interdisciplinarity, innovation, collaboration, and boldness.'
Law and Legacy in Medical Jurisprudence: Essays in Honour of Graeme Laurie can be accessed on the CUP website.
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