Marie-Andree Jacob - Keele University

Dr Marie-Andrée Jacob

Title: Senior Lecturer
Phone: +44(0)1782 733860
Email:
Location: Chancellor's Building, room CBC 2.011
Role: on research leave in 2012-3
Contacting me: Email to make an appointment.

LLB Laval, LLM Osgoode Hall, JSD Cornell.

Marie practised law and worked as a clerk before becoming an academic. Originally from Quebec city, she moved to the UK and joined Keele University in 2007. She is a native French speaker, and conversational in Hebrew. Matching Organs with Donors: Legality and Kinship in Transplants is her first book, published in 2012 by Penn Press.

In 2012-3 she will be an Arts and Humanities Research Council Early Career Fellow, working on a project entitled: Judging the Medics’ Science: Misconduct and research culture in disciplinary proceedings since 1990.

Marie is generally interested in how law, experts and society interact in generating controversies and consensus on issues pertaining to modern medicine. Her research and teaching interests include: legal ethnography; kinship, bureaucracies, gift and exchange; medical law; law science and society; research ethics and governance, publication ethics, and scientific conduct and misconduct.

She is happy to supervise work in these areas.

Undergraduate Teaching:

Law, Science and Society (Module Leader)

Family Law

Healthcare Law (Module Leader)

Postgraduate Teaching

MA Medical Ethics and Law

LLM in Gender, Sexuality and Law

MA Child Care Law and Practice

MRes Social Science Research Methods in Law

Co-organizer of ‘Research with Living Beings: an interdisciplinary conversation on research using human embryos and non-human primates’, funded by the Wellcome Trust (with Marie Fox, Bimingham)

Member of the External Expert Panel for the Individuals, Societies, Cultures and Health (ISCH) Domain, European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST), 2009.

Co-organizer, Embryonic Hopes, Interdisciplinary Keele-King’s College London joint workshop, June 2008.

Member, Programme Committee, Law and Society Annual Meeting, Montreal, 2008.

Member, French Article Prize Committee, Canadian Law and Society Association, 2007.

Member, Board of the Canadian Law and Society Association, 2006-2009.

Co-organizer of Papering Ethics, Documenting Consent: the New Bureaucracies of Virtue Symposium, Cornell University, 2006.