Michael Fay

Title: Lecturer in Law
Phone: +44 (0)1782 734085
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Location: CBC 1.016
Role: Disability Liaison Officer
Contacting me: During office hours without an appointment, or email to make an appointment.

Michael joined Keele University as a lecturer in September 2013.  He previously taught as an Associate Tutor at the University of East Anglia (UEA) from 2009-2013 and before that worked in the public sector. Michael is a twice graduate of the UEA Law School and holds both an LLB Law and an LLM in Employment Law.  Has recently submitted his doctoral thesis, titled Genetic Torts: Establishing the Clinician's Duty to Disclose, which explores whether genetic risks should be disclosed by doctors to the families of their patients.  This research was funded with a scholarship award from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of East Anglia.

Torts, Medical Law, Genetic Medicine, Confidentiality, Disclosure

Journal Publications

  • Negligence and the Communication of Genetic Information to Parents (2012) 20(4) Medical Law Review 604

  • Informing the Family: A geneticist's duty to disclose genetic risks to relatives of the proband (2011) 27(2) Professional Negligence 97

Teaching

Undergraduate

Tort

Law, Science and Society

Healthcare Law

Postgraduate

MA in Medical Ethics and Law: Working with Legal Sources, Mental Health Law and the Mental Health Act, Confidentiality and the Law, Regulating Reproduction

MMedSci in Contemporary Challenges in Healthcare Ethics and Law: Consent and the Law, Patient Information, End of Life