Dr Murray Earle
Senior Lecturer in Medical Law
Director of Exams Postgraduate (Semester 1)
BA (Hons), LLM, PhD
Tuesday 15:00-17:00
Tel: +44 (0)131 651 5567
Email: murray.earle@ed.ac.uk
Murray Earle is a Senior Lecturer in medical law. He is a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand (BA Law & International Relations; BA (Hons) Comparative Literature), and the University of Edinburgh (LLM Medical Jurisprudence, Gender, Sexuality and the law; and the Sociology of Law; and PhD in Medical Law).
Murray started his career as a lecturer in medical law at the University of Glasgow, while completing his PhD. That was followed by work as a Senior Researcher at the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe, 2000-2011). From there he developed an independent career, writing, and teaching on, a wide range of online postgraduate medical law courses offered by Edinburgh Law School, at the University of Edinburgh. He is also involved in writing for a range of reference publications, two end of life chapters in Mason and McCall Smith’s Law and Medical Ethics (12th ed.) as well as Scottish Medical Law Essentials (2nd ed.), published in 2025 by Edinburgh University Press.
His current teaching is in both the on Campus and Online Distance Learning environments, in a range of medical law courses, with an emphasis on End of Life Ethics and Law, Law and Ethics at the Start and End of Life, and Mental Health Law. These are taught at Masters degree level, as well as Honours and CPD. He currently acts as Programme Director for the online General LLM in Law and Postgraduate Certificate in Law, as well as for the LLM in Medical Law and Ethics.
Twitter: @murrayearle