About: Jacqueline Laing
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Jacqueline Laing is founder and editor of Analysis & Review. She has taught Jurisprudence, Criminal Law, Moral Philosophy, and Law and Religion at a variety of institutions including the University of Cambridge, Kings College, London, London Metropolitan University, the University of Oxford and the University of Melbourne.
Educated in Calcutta, India, and Canberra, Australia, she completed her doctorate in jurisprudence at Brasenose College, Oxford, after taking degrees in philosophy and law at the Australian National University. There she won prizes in philosophy and jurisprudence and a Commonwealth Scholarship to study at Oxford. She has legal experience as a UK Crown Prosecutor, and as a clerk to a judge in the Supreme Court in Canberra. She has contributed to broadcast discussions on medical law and ethics. Her publications include the books,
Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics and
The Natural Law Reader, articles in journals such as the
Medical Law Review,
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies,
New Law Journal,
Journal of Criminal Law,
Monist International Journal of Philosophical Enquiry,
European Journal of Health Law and editorial comment pages in the national and international press.
Website
http://www.jacquelinelaing.com
Posts by Jacqueline Laing:
In my last post I made the following observation about professionals who agitate for the substantial lowering, if not outright abolition, of the age of consent. “To normalise the abnormal, there should be a ready supply of ‘useful idiots’. These are the journalists and quasi-intellectuals that can be relied on toRead More
After certain press criticism and a productive online backlash in the blogosphere, the American Psychiatric Association is performing a gratifying volte-face in its use of the term sexual “orientation” for paedophilia. In its fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM V), the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has distinguishedRead More
Describing the process of becoming biological mother to at least two children she will never herself nurture or rear, a former Californian college student, Leah Campbell, highlights the perils of hyperovulation. In a naive yet candid account, she describes the pleasure of having passed the “pre-screenings with flying colours” and her hopesRead More
Wales is now the first country in the United Kingdom to enforce a system of presumed consent to use of a person’s organs for transplant. The introduction of this legislation has set a dangerous precedent for the UK. Interestingly it was assisted by supine ‘faith leaders’ whose nauseating appeasement of oppressiveRead More
Of the fourth estate, Thomas Carlyle once vividly observed ‘Burke said there were three estates in parliament; but, in the reporters’ gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all’. Now that clergy, nobles and commons are competing for celebrity status, all that remains of independentRead More
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