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  1. Last resort as a justification for compulsory nasogastric tube feeding of adults with anorexia nervosa

    Article • Medical Law International, February 2026, SAGE Publications

    Professor Emma Cave

  2. What’s in a name? Abbasi and Another v Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust ; Haastrup v King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2025] UKS...

    Article • Medical Law Review, January 2026, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Emma Cave

  3. Fifty years of the Congenital Disabilities (Civil Liability) Act 1976: A spent statute?

    Article • Medical Law Review, January 2026, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Emma Cave

  4. Legal decisions on longstanding severe eating disorders

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, December 2025, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Emma Cave

  5. Evolving judicial approaches to longstanding anorexia nervosa

    Article • Clinical Ethics, October 2025, SAGE Publications

    Professor Emma Cave

  6. Afterword

    Article • July 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Emma Cave

  7. Advocating distinct regulatory paths for embryos and embryo-like structures

    Article • Journal of Law and the Biosciences, January 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Emma Cave

  8. How should we decide how to treat the child: harm versus best interests in cases of disagreement

    Article • Medical Law Review, December 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Emma Cave

  9. Book review: Medicine, Patients and the Law Medicine, Patients and the Law, BrazierMargaretCaveEmmaHeywoodRob, eds., 7th ed. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023), 696 pp., 39.50 (GBP), ISBN 978 1 5261 5717 1

    Article • Medical Law International, November 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Emma Cave

  10. The Warnock Report on Human Fertilisation and Embryology (1984)

    Article • May 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Emma Cave

  11. Skeleton Keys to Hospital Doors: Adolescent Adults who Refuse Life‐Sustaining Medical Treatment

    Article • Modern Law Review, March 2023, Wiley

    Professor Emma Cave

  12. Should states restrict recipient choice amongst relevant and available COVID-19 vaccines?

    Article • Medical Law Review, October 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Emma Cave

  13. Involving parents in paediatric clinical ethics committee deliberations: a current controversy

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, September 2022, BMJ

    Professor Emma Cave

  14. Clinical ethics support services during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: a cross-sectional survey

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, November 2021, BMJ

    Professor Emma Cave

  15. Challenging misconceptions about clinical ethics support during COVID-19 and beyond: a legal update and future considerations

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, April 2021, BMJ

    Professor Emma Cave

  16. Confirmation of the High Court’s Power to Override a Child’s Treatment Decision: A NHS Trust v X (In the matter of X (A Child) (No 2)) [2021] EWHC 65 (Fam)

    Article • Medical Law Review, March 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Emma Cave

  17. Valid consent to medical treatment

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, June 2020, BMJ

    Professor Emma Cave

  18. Informing patients: The Bolam legacy

    Article • Medical Law International, June 2020, SAGE Publications

    Professor Emma Cave

  19. COVID-19 Super-spreaders: Definitional Quandaries and Implications

    Article • Asian Bioethics Review, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Emma Cave

  20. Selecting Treatment Options and Choosing Between them: Delineating Patient and Professional Autonomy in Shared Decision-Making

    Article • Health Care Analysis, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Emma Cave

  21. Think of the Children: Liability for Non-Disclosure of Information Post-Montgomery

    Article • Medical Law Review, August 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Emma Cave

  22. EU Clinical Trials Regulation 2014: Fetter or facilitator?

    Article • Medical Law International, June 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Emma Cave

  23. Who Knows Best (Interests)? The Case of Charlie Gard

    Article • Medical Law Review, December 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Emma Cave

  24. Editorial

    Article • International Journal of Mental Health and Capacity Law, September 2017, Northumbria University Library

    Professor Emma Cave, Dr Darius Whelan

  25. Debating the future of mandatory vaccination

    Article • BMJ, September 2017, BMJ

    Professor Emma Cave

  26. Mandated vaccination

    Article • Legal Studies, June 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Emma Cave

  27. Montgomery, consent and the therapeutic exception

    Article • Common Law World Review, June 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Emma Cave

  28. Vulnerable patients

    Article • Medical Law Review, January 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Emma Cave

  29. Pioneering Healthcare Law

    Article • October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Emma Cave

  30. Confidentiality

    Article • Journal of Medical Law and Ethics, August 2015, Paris Legal Publishers

    Professor Emma Cave

  31. Human rights, capacity and mental health

    Article • Statute Law Review, November 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Emma Cave

  32. Vaccination refusal

    Article • Modern Law Review, July 2014, Wiley

    Professor Emma Cave

  33. Adolescent consent to medical treatment

    Article • Legal Studies, March 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Emma Cave

  34. Competence and authority: adolescent treatment refusals for physical and mental health conditions

    Article • Contemporary Social Science, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Emma Cave

  35. Adolescent treatment refusal

    Article • Medical Law Review, April 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Emma Cave

  36. Fascilitating clinical research on vulnerable populations

    Article • Medical Law Review, February 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Emma Cave

  37. Adolescent Consent and Confi dentiality in the UK

    Article • European Journal of Health Law, January 2009, Brill

    Professor Emma Cave

  38. Why we wrote… Medicine, Patients and the Law

    Article • Clinical Ethics, December 2008, SAGE Publications

    Professor Emma Cave

  39. Research ethics

    Article • Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, July 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Emma Cave

  40. Reforming the ethical review system: balancing the rights and interests of research participants with the duty to facilitate good research

    Article • Clinical Ethics, June 2007, SAGE Publications

    Professor Emma Cave

  41. Drink and Drugs in Pregnancy: Can the Law Prevent Avoidable Harm to the Future Child?

    Article • Medical Law International, March 2007, SAGE Publications

    Professor Emma Cave

  42. Milgram and Tuskegee — Paradigm Research Projects in Bioethics

    Article • Health Care Analysis, January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Emma Cave

  43. New governance arrangements for research ethics committees: is facilitating research achieved at the cost of participants' interest

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, October 2002, BMJ

    Professor Emma Cave

  44. Data protection legislation: interpretation and barriers to research

    Article • BMJ, October 2000, BMJ

    Professor Emma Cave

  45. Adolescent Consent to Medical Treatment

    Article • Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Emma Cave