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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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| Contact address | The Ethox Centre, DPHPC, University of Oxford,Badenoch Building, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LF |
Sue is a lawyer. She works at the Ethox Centre as a Researcher in Law on a three year, Wellcome Trust-funded project entitled 'Governing Genetic Databases'. This project commenced in November 2005.
Sue's background is in civil litigation and private legal practice. She completed a doctorate in Civil Procedure, and still teaches this subject at postgraduate level within Oxford University. Her involvement with Genetics Law began in early 2004, when she joined the Ethox Centre 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. Along with dentifying and critically analyzing all of the UK laws that are relevant, or potentially relevant, to human genetic databases, Sue also looked comparatively at the governance frameworks, especially for population genetic databases, in each of the four countries.
The 'Governing Genetic Databases' project aims to develop recommendations for designing effective, practical model(s) for governing human genetic databases in England and Wales. This research will provide essential guidance for those who operate and use genetic databases, as well as providing a firm foundation for future rules and guidelines to be developed by regulatory bodies such as the Human Tissue Authority. For further information, please visit the project website.
As well as regulatory design and implementation issues, and a wide range of substantive legal issues associated with genetic databases, Sue is interested in scrutinizing the traditional legal distinction between data and tissue regulation, and exploring definitions, terminological choice, and the implications of both for regulation and practice.
Dr Susan M C Gibbons, BA/LLB(Hons) (Cantuar), BCL (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon)
