Margaret Brazier

Margaret Rosetta "Margot" Brazier (née Jacobs; 2 November 1950 – 4 March 2025) was a British academic who was a professor at the University of Manchester's School of Law.{{cite web|url=http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/Margaret.R.Brazier|title=Staff profile, School of Law, The University of Manchester |publisher=manchester.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=1 April 2017}}Margaret Jacobs was born in Preston, Lancashire on 2 November 1950. She was married to Rodney Brazier, a professor of constitutional law also at the University of Manchester.

Life and career

Brazier researched legal issues in the field of medicine, including medical ethics. She was a barrister, ex-member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (1998–2001),{{cite web|url=http://staffprofiles.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/Profile.aspx?Id=Margaret.R.Brazier |title=Staff profile, School of Law, The University of Manchester |publisher=manchester.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=21 July 2014}} Editor of the Medical Law Review,{{cite web|url=http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/medlaw/editorial_board.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728035809/http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/medlaw/editorial_board.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 July 2014 |title=Medical Law Review, Editorial Board |publisher=Oxford Journals |date= |accessdate=21 July 2014}} and ex-president of the Society of Legal Scholars (formerly, Society of Public Teachers of Law) (1997–1999).{{cite web |author=legalscholars |url=http://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/about/previous-officers/index.cfm |title=Previous Officers of The Society of Legal Scholars |publisher=Legalscholars.ac.uk |accessdate=21 July 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812084531/http://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/about/previous-officers/index.cfm |archivedate=12 August 2014 }} Brazier was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2014, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

She chaired a number of committees, including:

Chair of the Animal Procedures Committee 1993–98.{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/272030/2730.pdf |title=Archived copy |website=www.gov.uk |access-date=14 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140726194839/https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/272030/2730.pdf |archive-date=26 July 2014 |url-status=dead}}
Chair of Review of Surrogacy Arrangements 1996–98.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/192611.stm |title=Health Review proposes regulation for surrogacy |work=BBC News |date=16 October 1998 |accessdate=21 July 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsLegislation/DH_4009697 |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100408192620/www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsLegislation/DH_4009697 |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 April 2010 |title=[ARCHIVED CONTENT] Surrogacy: Review for health ministers of current arrangements for payments and regulation - Report of the review team : Department of Health - Publications |publisher=Webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk |accessdate=21 July 2014}}
Chair of the Retained Organs Commission 2001–2004.{{cite web|url=http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Aboutus/MinistersandDepartmentLeaders/ChiefMedicalOfficer/ProgressOnPolicy/ProgressBrowsableDocument/DH_5016004 |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090217023532/www.dh.gov.uk/en/Aboutus/MinistersandDepartmentLeaders/ChiefMedicalOfficer/ProgressOnPolicy/ProgressBrowsableDocument/DH_5016004 |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 February 2009 |title=[ARCHIVED CONTENT] 6. The Retained Organs Commission : Department of Health - About us |publisher=Webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk |accessdate=21 July 2014}}
Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics Working Party on Critical Care Decisions in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine: Ethical Issues 2004–2006.{{cite web |last=Nuffield Council on Bioethics |date=15 November 2006 |title=Critical care decisions in fetal and neonatal medicine: ethical issues |url=https://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/publication/critical-care-decisions-in-fetal-and-neonatal-medicine-ethical-issues/ |accessdate=12 March 2025 |website=NCOB |publisher=Nuffieldbioethics.org}}

Brazier wrote the first edition of her textbook Medicine, Patient and the Law in 1987.{{Cite book |last=Brazier |first=Margaret |title=Medicine, Patients and the Law |publisher=Penguin |year=1987 |isbn=0140225579 |edition=1st |location=London |publication-date=1987 |language=British}} The 7th edition was published in 2023,{{Cite book |last=Brazier |first=Margaret |title=Medicine, Patients and the Law |last2=Cave |first2=Emma |author-link2=Emma Cave |last3=Heywood |first3=Rob |publisher=MUP |year=2023 |isbn=9781526157171 |edition=7th |location=Manchester |publication-date=2023 |language=British}} along with her monograph, Law and Healing: A History of a Stormy Marriage.{{Cite book |last=Brazier |first=Margaret |title=Law and healing: A history of a stormy marriage |publisher=MUP |year=2023 |isbn=9781526129185 |location=Manchester |publication-date=February 2023 |language=British}}{{Cite journal |last=McWhirter |first=Rebekah |date=23 December 2023 |title=Book Review: Margaret Brazier, Law and Healing: A History of a Stormy Marriage |url=https://academic.oup.com/medlaw/article-abstract/32/2/281/7492878?login=false |journal=Medical Law Review |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=281-286}}

Brazier's academic work is commemorated in a special edition of the journal Medical Law Review{{Cite journal |date=2012 |title=Special issue: Across the Spectrum of Medical Law: A Special Issue in Honour of Margaret Brazier |url=https://academic.oup.com/medlaw/issue/20/1 |journal=Medical Law Review |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=1-186 |via=OUP}} and a 2016 festschrift called Pioneering Healthcare Law: Essays in Honour of Margaret Brazier.{{Cite book |last=Stanton |first=Catherine |title=Pioneering Healthcare Law: Essays in Honour of Margaret Brazier |last2=Devaney |first2=Sarah |last3=Farrell |first3=Anne-Maree |last4=Mullock |first4=Alexandra |publisher=Routledge |year=2020 |isbn=9780367597757 |publication-date=30 June 2020 |language=British}}

Brazier died on 4 March 2025, aged 74.{{cite news |title=Margaret Brazier, law scholar who advised government on issues from medical consent to animal testing |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2025/03/18/margaret-brazier-surrogacy-animal-testing-consent-ethics/ |access-date=18 March 2025 |publisher=The Telegraph |date=18 March 2025}}{{Cite web |last=Cave |first=Emma |author-link=Emma Cave |last2=Jackson |first2=Emily |author-link2=Emily Jackson |date=10 March 2025 |title=Obituary: Professor Margaret Brazier |url=https://www.progress.org.uk/obituary-professor-margot-brazier/ |url-status=live |archive-date= |access-date=25 March 2025 |website=BioNews 1280}}

Recognition

Order of the British Empire (1997).
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (1993).
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2007).{{cite web|url=http://www.acmedsci.ac.uk/fellows/fellows-directory/ordinary-fellows/professor-margaret-brazier/ |title=Fellow Academy of Medical Sciences |publisher=Acmedsci.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=21 July 2014}}
Queen's Counsel (honoris causa) (2008).{{cite web|url=http://www.justice.gov.uk/news/newsrelease100308.htm |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20101013201917/http://www.justice.gov.uk/news/newsrelease100308.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 October 2010 |title=[ARCHIVED CONTENT] Honorary Queen's Counsel 2008 - Ministry of Justice |publisher=Webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk |accessdate=21 July 2014}}
Fellow of the British Academy (2014).{{cite web | url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/british-academy-announces-42-new-fellows/2014585.article | title=British Academy announces 42 new fellows | publisher=Times Higher Education | date=18 July 2014 | accessdate=18 July 2014}}

References

Category:1950 births

Category:2025 deaths

Category:British King's Counsel

Category:Academics of the University of Manchester

Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire

Category:Fellows of the British Academy

Category:Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom)

Category:21st-century King's Counsel

Category:Honorary King's Counsel

Category:Scholars of medical law