- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2007
- Sections
- Law
Genevra Richardson has been Professor of Law at King's College London since 2005. Before coming to King's she was Professor of Public Law at Queen Mary, University of London. She has a long-standing interest in law and psychiatry. In 1998-9 she chaired the Expert Committee established by the Department of Health to advise ministers on the reform of mental health legislation. In recent years she has conducted research into the assessment of mental capacity with a team from the Institute of Psychiatry. She has been a member of Council of the Medical Research Council and the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council and a trustee of the Nuffield Foundation. She is an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Current post
Professor of Law, King's College London
Past appointments
King's College London University of London Professor of Law
2005 -
Queen Mary University of London Dean of the Faculty of Law
1996 - 1999
Queen Mary University of London Professor of Public Law
1994 - 2005
Wolfson College University of Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
1974 - 1978
Publications
Mental Disabilities and the Law from Substitute to Supported Decision-Making Current Legal Problems
Published in 2012
“Mental Capacity in the Shadow of Suicide: What can the law do?”
Published in 2013 by International Journal of Law in Context
Bournewood fifteen years on Landmark cases in medical law
Published in 2015
Law, Process and Custody: Prisoners and Patients
Published in 1993
Report of the Expert Committee, Review of the Mental Health Act 1983
Published in 1999
Autonomy, Guardianship and Mental Disorder: One Problem, Two Solutions
Published in 2002 by 65 Modern Law Review 702-723
Six Fellows of the British Academy make the case for the importance of the humanities and social sciences
20 Nov 2018
As part of the #howhumanities and #howsocialscience series, six fellows highlight the importance of these disciplines.
