Prof Patrick Hanafin

Overview

Biography

Professor Patrick Hanafin BA (Limerick), PhD (Dublin City) joined the Law School at Birkbeck as a lecturer in 1999 from the University of Sussex, and was appointed to a Chair in 2008. Professor Hanafin has also held a visiting fellowship at Harvard Law School (1998-99), has been a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence (2002-2003), and a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria (July 2008). He was a Visiting Research Professor at the University of Capetown in the Autumn term 2012.

Patrick co-directs the School’s Centre for Law and the Humanities.

Research

Research interests

• Law and literature, reproductive rights and politics

Supervision and teaching

Supervision

Supervisions within Birkbeck:

2

I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students who are interested in researching in the following areas:

- Law and biopolitics

- Medical law and ethics

- Healthcare and human rights

- Law and literature

Teaching

Teaching modules

• Principles of Medical Law and Ethics
• Healthcare and Human Rights
• Law Masters Research Project
• Critical Research Masterclass
• Contemporary Issues in Medical Law and Ethics

Publications