Fellow in Medical Law, London School of Economics
Dr Liam Davis is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews. He is currently a Fellow in Medical Law at the London School of Economics Law School. Liam completed his PhD at Bristol Law School, researching queer families and birth registration. His legal interests generally span across family and medical law with a growing interest in queer and abolitionist theory. Prior to commencing a PhD, Liam completed his LLB and LLM at Kent Law School.
This event brought together researchers, clinicians, lawyers and those with lived experience to discuss the role of 'altruism' in two different medical contexts...
The recent case of one half of a same-sex couple being inaccurately advised she had to adopt her own child reveled many of the heteronormative assumptions that underpin our understanding of family, argues Liam Davis.
What makes a family? What was once probably a simple question to answer can now be complicated (or 'queered'). There are now various models of family to consider, which departs from the 'traditional' ideal of a married, cisgender man and woman with bioge
In this updated second edition of The Law of Assisted Reproduction, author Seamus Burns, Senior Lecturer in Law at Sheffield Hallam University, aimed to highlight the major features of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Act 2008 just over a decade since its inception, and eight years since the first edition of his book was published...
Legal parenthood has been granted to an intended father who died before his surrogate-carried child was born...
A trans man who gave birth, has been unsuccessful in his latest attempt to be registered as his child's 'father' on the birth certificate.
The High Court decided that a trans man could not be named as a 'father' on his child's birth certificate because he gave birth. Instead, he had to be named as the 'mother'...
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