Elizabeth Wicks is a Senior Lecturer in the Law School and she teaches Public Law, Law and Medicine and European Human Rights Law. From 1996 to 1999, Dr Wicks worked in the School as a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, during which time she completed a PhD on the relationship between Human Rights and Sovereignty of both the State and Legislature of the United Kingdom. She subsequently spent a year as the School's Research Associate and then became a Lecturer in the School in 2000.

Dr Wicks’ main research interests are in the fields of constitutional law, human rights and medical law. She is the author of The Evolution of a Constitution: Eight Key Moments in British Constitutional Histor' (Hart Publishing, 2006). This book aims to cast light upon the British constitution of today by means of an in-depth analysis of eight key moments in British constitutional history, ranging from the 1688 ‘Glorious’ Revolution to the 1911 Parliament Act to the 1972 European Communities Act. Dr Wicks has also published a number of articles in academic journals, including Public Law, the Medical Law Review and the Law Quarterly Review. She has recently finished writing a book entitled Human Rights and Healthcare, which develops a human rights perspective on medical law, and which will be published by Hart Publishing in summer 2007.

Recent Publications:

• The Evolution of a Constitution – Eight Key Moments in British Constitutional History' (Hart Publishing, 2006).
• 'Taking Account of Strasbourg? The British Judiciary’s Approach to Interpreting Convention Rights' (2005) 11(3) European Public Law 405-428.
• ‘Prioritising Consent – The Implications of the Human Rights Act 1998’ in Tingle, Wheat & Foster (eds) Regulating Health Care Quality – Legal and Professional Perspectives (Elsevier Science, 2004).
• ‘Late Termination of Pregnancy for Reason of Fetal Abnormality: Medical and Legal Perspectives’ (2004) 12(3) Medical Law Review 285-305 (with M. Wyldes and M. Kilby).
• ‘The Greater Good? Issues of Proportionality and Democracy in the Doctrine of Necessity as applied in Re A’ (2003) 32 Common Law World Review 15-34.
• ‘A New Constitution for a New State? The 1707 Union of England and Scotland (2001) 117 Law Quarterly Review 109-126.
• ‘The Right to Refuse Medical Treatment under the European Convention on Human Rights’ (2001) 9 Medical Law Review 17-40.
• ‘“Declaratory of Existing Rights” – The UK’s Role in Drafting a European Bill of Rights, Mark II’ [2001] Public Law 532-546.