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Sara Fovargue

(she/her)
Professor of Law, University of Sheffield

Sara is an expert on health care law and ethics, and family law. She has written on reproductive technologies, emerging biotechnologies (especially xenotransplantation), and matters relating to consent, capacity, risk and regulation, and conscientious objection. She is interested in the roles that hope and exploitation have in health care practice.

In terms of family law, her interests lie in issues relating to parenthood and parental responsibility, and other matters relating to children, including their ability to consent to medical treatment.

Sara is a co-investigator on a Wellcome funded project, Future of Human Reproduction, based at Lancaster University.

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Professor, University of Sheffield
  • 2000–2021
    Professor, Lancaster University