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Dr Tom Smith

Job: Part-time Lecturer

Faculty: Business and Law

School/department: Leicester De Montfort Law School

Address: Â鶹ƵµÀ, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH, United Kingdom

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E: tom.smith@dmu.ac.uk

 

Personal profile

Tom is a part-time Lecturer at Leicester De Montfort Law School, teaching on the postgraduate Medical Law & Ethics module; Issues Relating to the Termination of Life and supervising postgraduate law students.

With a wide range of research interests including; access to abortion, autonomy, Act -v- Omission at the end of life and Best Interests; the focus of Tom's research is in the law and ethics at the end of life, particularly in the application of sedation and withdrawal of nutrition & hydration at the end of life; the legal and ethical situation in terms of dying without pain, the link to autotomy and dignity and importantly, the intention of individuals and society.

Research group affiliations

The Institute for Evidence-Based Law Reform (IELR)

Research interests/expertise

Medical Law & Ethics; Sedation at the end of life, dying without pain, withholding /withdrawal of nutrition & hydration and Act -v- Omission. Wider interests include the law concerning & access to abortion, autonomy & Best Interests.

Areas of teaching

Medical Law & Ethics, Issues Relating to the Termination of Life

Qualifications

MA (Hons), MSc, PG Cert, LLM, PhD

Courses taught

LLMP5282 Issues Relating to the Termination of Life

Professional licences and certificates

AFHEA

Conference attendance

14th World Conference on Bioethics, Medical Ethics & Health Law, March 2022, paper entitled, 'Bland; the Omission of the Negative-Act'.