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"Contributors" [2007] ELECD 110; in Somsen, Han (ed), "The Regulatory Challenge of Biotechnology" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007)

Book Title: The Regulatory Challenge of Biotechnology

Editor(s): Somsen, Han

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781845424893

Section Title: Contributors

Number of pages: 5

Extract:

Contributors
Roger Brownsword is Professor of Law at King's College London and
Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Sheffield (where he was
one of the founding members of the Sheffield Institute of Biotechnological
Law and Ethics). He co-authored books with Professor Deryck Beyleveld,
including (1986), Law as a Moral Judgment, Sweet & Maxwell and (2001),
Human Dignity in Bioethics and Biolaw, Oxford University Press. He co-
edited with Professor Cornish and Dr Llewelyn (1998), Law and Human
Genetics: Regulating a Revolution, Hart. Supported by a Leverhulme Trust
Fellowship, he recently started work on a new book for OUP entitled
Rights, Regulation, and the Technological Revolution.
Professor Brownsword acted as a specialist adviser to the House of Lords
Select Committee on Stem Cells and his recent journal papers in this
general area include: (2002), `Stem Cells, Superman, and the Report of
the Select Committee', Modern Law Review; (2003), `Bioethics Today,
Bioethics Tomorrow: Stem Cell Research and the "Dignitarian Alliance" ',
University of Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy; (2003),
`An Interest in Human Dignity as the Basis for Genomic Torts', Washburn
Law Journal; (2004), `Regulating Human Genetics: Dilemmas of Form and
Substance, Doctrine and Design', Medical Law Review; and (2004),
`Reproductive Opportunities and Regulatory Challenges', Modern Law
Review.
In addition to his interest in law, ethics and technology, Professor
Brownsword has written extensively about the law of contract and he is
co-editor of a four-volume set on Global Governance and the Quest for
Justice, ...