Dr Tatiana Flessas NAB 7.27

Additional Teacher(s):

Professor Emily Jackson, NAB 7.10

This course is available on the MSc in Law, Anthropology and Society, Master of Laws and Master of Laws (extended part-time study). This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

This course is capped at 30 students. Students must apply through Graduate Course Choice on LSEforYou.

For the LLM (Specialisms: Legal Theory)

The course addresses the interrelation of law, technology and theories of ‘the body’.  Within the broad categories of ‘Beginnings’, ‘Bodies’ and ‘Endings’, we look at emerging medical technologies and their effect on social and theoretical conceptions of the body and its capacities.

1. Introduction (Professor Emily Jackson; Dr Tatiana Flessas)

Beginnings: 

2. Assisted Conception;

3.Fertility Markets;

4. Surrogacy.

Bodies:

5. Regulating Obesity;

6. Enhancements;

7. Gender and the Body.

Endings:

8. Incapacity;

9. Law in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit;

10. Assisted Dying.

20 hours of seminars in the MT.

There will be a Reading Week in week 6 of MT.

Students are invited to submit one 2,000 word essay.

A detailed reading list will be provided.

Exam (100%, duration: 2 hours, reading time: 15 minutes) in the main exam period.