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Sue Gibbons
Recent Publications
- Gibbons Sue (2008) Group Litigation, Class Actions and Lord Woolf's Three Objectives - A Critical Analysis Civil Justice Quarterly, 27(2):208-243.
- Gibbons Sue (2008) Law and the Human Body: Property Rights, Ownership and Control by Rohan Hardcastle Medical Law Review, 16(2):305-313.
- Gibbons Sue (2008) From Principles to Practice: Implementing Genetic Database Governance Medical Law International, 9(2):100-109.
- Helgason HH and Gibbons Sue (2008) Certainty is Absurd: Meeting Information Security Requirements in Laws on Population Genetic Databases Medical Law International, 9(2):151-168.
- Kaye Jane and Gibbons Sue (2008) Mapping the Regulatory Space for Genetic Databases and Biobanks in England and Wales Medical Law International, 9(2):111-130.
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Dr Sue Gibbons
Sue is an Academic Visitor at the Ethox Centre. Her main research interests are in biomedical law (with a particular emphasis on law and genetics), governance (including regulatory theory, design, and implementation), civil procedure, and human rights. Her background is in civil litigation and private legal practice in New Zealand, where she worked as a barrister and senior solicitor before moving to the UK. She holds a BCL degree and a doctorate in civil procedure, and she regularly teaches on the subject at postgraduate level within Oxford University.
Sue’s involvement with medical law and genetics began in early 2004, when she joined Ethox as a legal researcher on the EU-funded ELSAGEN Biobank project. That multi-disciplinary project involved collaborations between teams in Iceland, Estonia, Sweden, and the UK, examining the ethical, legal, and social aspects of human genetic databases. Subsequently, Sue worked at Ethox on a three-year, Wellcome Trust-funded project entitled ‘Governing Genetic Databases’. That project, which commenced in November 2005, sought to develop recommendations for designing effective, practical model(s) for governing biobanks in England and Wales. For more information, please visit the project website: www.ggd.org.uk. As well as examining a wide range of theoretical and substantive legal issues associated with biobanks and regulation, Sue’s work included a detailed mapping of existing biomedical governance frameworks, socio-legal analysis of qualitative empirical data, and organising a one-day legal workshop for 50 researchers, scientists, and other biobanking professionals from around the UK.
In addition to collaborating on a book of the Governing Genetic Databases project, Sue’s current research and writing projects include issues to do with defining biobanks, categorising biobanks effectively for governance purposes, consent (especially under the Human Tissue Act 2004), harmonising terminology, providing feedback to participants, rationalising legal and ethical frameworks, and re-appraising the subsisting data–tissue regulatory dichotomy.
Dr Susan M C Gibbons, BA/LLB (Hons) (Cantuar), BCL (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon)
