Rachel Fenton, PhD
Role: Senior Lecturer, Bristol Law School, University of West England
Bristol, UK
Contact: Rachel.Fenton@uwe.ac.uk
Research Interests:
Assisted Reproduction and Legal Regulation
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Rape and Sexual Assault
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Medicine and Law
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Gender and Law;
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Bystander Intervention for Universities
Rachel Anne Fenton is a Senior Lecturer at Bristol Law School at the University of the West of England where she teaches Medical Law and Gender and the Law. She is Head of the Family, Gender and Equality Research Unit, and is the founder and leader of the Women Law Students Forum.
Rachel’s current research explores how vulnerability might be applied to the provision of assisted reproduction. In her chapter in the forthcoming book Vulnerability, edited by Martha Albertson Fineman and Anna Grear, she argues that the vulnerability thesis can be used to call states to account, to make demands for genuine equality of opportunity and access to assisted reproduction, to urge a deeper sense of collective and state responsibility for the creation of children as a social good and to address the global inequalities and vulnerabilities created and exacerbated as a result of blinkered unethical legislative behaviour (predominantly) in the global North. Rachel is currently working on a book entitled Assisted Reproduction, Vulnerability and the Global Market and is working with Professor Martha Fineman on this project.
Rachel has been writing about gender and assisted reproduction regulation for some years and she is co-editor of Gender, Sexualities and Law (Glasshouse 2011). She has also written about rape and sexual assault (see for example, (with Phil Rumney) “Rape, Defendant Anonymity and Evidence-Based Policy Making” 2013 Modern Law Review 76(1) 109-133; (with Phil Rumney) “Judicial Training and Rape”, 2011 75(6) Journal of Criminal Law 473-481).
Rachel also has background in Italian law, gaining a first class honours degree in Law and Italian from Cardiff University. She has also written about Italian law both on assisted reproduction (see “Catholic Doctrine versus Women's rights: The New Italian Law on Assisted Reproduction” 2006 14 Medical Law Review, 73-107) and on rape (“Rape in Italian Law: Towards the Recognition of Sexual Autonomy” in C McGlynn and V. Munro (eds) Rethinking Rape Law, GlassHouse, 2010, 183-195).
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