Margaret Brazier

Margaret 'Margot' Brazier, OBE, FBA, FMedSci is a professor at the University of Manchester's School of Law.
Margaret is the wife of Rodney Brazier, a professor of constitutional law also at the University of Manchester.

Academic work

Brazier researches legal issues in the field of medicine, including medical ethics. She is a barrister, ex-member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (1998-2001), Editor of the Medical Law Review, and ex-president of the Society of Legal Scholars (formerly, Society of Public Teachers of Law) (1997-1999)

She has chaired a number of committees, including:

• Chair of the Animal Procedures Committee 1993-98.
• Chair of Review of Surrogacy Arrangements 1996-98.
• Chair of the Retained Organs Commission 2001-2004.
• Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics Working Party The Ethics of Prolonging Life in Fetuses and the Newborn 2004-2006.

• "Staff profile, School of Law, The University of Manchester". manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-07-21. 
• "Medical Law Review, Editorial Board". Oxford Journals. Retrieved 2014-07-21. 
• legalscholars. "Previous Officers of The Society of Legal Scholars". Legalscholars.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-07-21. 
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• "Health Review proposes regulation for surrogacy". BBC News. 1998-10-16. Retrieved 2014-07-21. 
• "[ARCHIVED CONTENT] Surrogacy: Review for health ministers of current arrangements for payments and regulation - Report of the review team : Department of Health - Publications". Webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 2014-07-21. 
• "[ARCHIVED CONTENT] 6. The Retained Organs Commission : Department of Health - About us". Webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 2014-07-21. 
• "Nuffield Council on Bioethics seeks views on prolonging life in fetuses and the newborn | Nuffield Council on Bioethics". Nuffieldbioethics.org. 2005-03-10. Retrieved 2014-07-21. 

Recognition

• Order of the British Empire (1997).
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (1993).
• Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2007).
• Queen's Counsel (honoris causa) (2008).
• Fellow of the British Academy (2014).

• "Fellow Academy of Medical Sciences". Acmedsci.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-07-21. 
• "[ARCHIVED CONTENT] Honorary Queen's Counsel 2008 - Ministry of Justice". Webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 2014-07-21. 
• "British Academy announces 42 new fellows". Times Higher Education. 18 July 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2014.