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Dr Daniel Fenwick

Assistant Professor

School: Northumbria School of Law

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I completed my LLB at Kings College, London in 2009, before completing a Masters in Jurisprudence (Mjur) in 2010 and then a PhD in law in 2014 at Durham University (awarded Feb 2015).

My Mjur and PhD topics are within the fields of bioethics and human rights; my PhD is entitled ‘A Gewirthian conception of the right to enabled suicide in England and Wales’. I have previously taught at Sheffield University and Durham University in the fields of Jurisprudence, Equity, Land law and Public law.

Campus Address

City Campus East
Falconer Street
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 2SW

My main areas of research are in family and relationship privacy, informational and physical/medical privacy, and human rights more generally. This research has formed the basis for publications in leading UK law journals and chapters in edited collections, including articles on same sex registered partnerships, the treatment of sexual minorities, terrorism and the ECtHR’s abortion jurisprudence.

D Fenwick and H Fenwick, ‘The Case for a More Ready Resort to Derogations From the ECHR in the Current “War On Terror”’ [2018] 4 EHRLR 303

D Fenwick and H Fenwick, ‘Fully recognizing dignity and equality values under the developing ECHR right to a same-sex registered partnership?’ in Research Handbook on Gender, Sexuality and the Law C Ashford and A Maine (eds) (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming  2019) 7.4k piece

D Fenwick and H Fenwick, ‘Prevent in Schools after the Trojan Horse Affair’ in I Cram (ed) Extremism, Free Speech and Counter Terrorism Law and Policy: International and Comparative Perspectives (Routledge, forthcoming 2019) 10.8k piece

D Fenwick and H Fenwick, ‘The role of derogations from the ECHR in the current ‘war on terror’” in S Hoadley (ed) Human Rights and Terrorism (International Human Rights series, Springer, forthcoming 2019) 17k piece

D Fenwick and H Fenwick, ‘National Counter-terrorism (CT) policies and challenges to human rights and civil liberties: case study of the UK’ in S Hoadley (ed) Human Rights and Terrorism (International Human Rights series, Springer, forthcoming 2019) 21k word piece

‘An introduction to the nature of rights and liberties’; ‘Private information and media freedom’; ‘State Surveillance’ in Helen Fenwick(ed) Fenwick on Civil Liberties (Routledge 2017)

‘Article 8, CPR and control over the manner and timing of death in R (on the application of Tracey) v Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’ (2015) 31(2) Journal of Professional Negligence pp 77-87

‘“Abortion jurisprudence” at Strasbourg: deferential, avoidant and normatively neutral?’ (2014) Legal Studies (Impact factor 1.35), Volume 34, Issue 2, pp 214-241.

‘The modern “abortion jurisprudence” under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights’, (2013) Medical Law International  Volume  12, pp 249-276.

‘The changing face of protection for individual privacy against the press: Leveson, the Royal Charter and tort liability’ (2013) International Review of Law Computing and Technology Volume 27, Issue 3, pp 241-279 with Helen Fenwick

‘Terrorism, CCTV and the Freedom Bill: achieving compatibility with Article 8 ECHR?’ (2011) International Review of Law Computing and Technology, Volume 25, Issue 3, pp 183–191; re-printed and published as a chapter in an edited collection: Developments in Counter-Terrorism Measures and Uses of Technology: Routledge, 2012

Karen Sutton An ethical and legal critique of assisted dying law for minors, drawing on human rights law and comparative legal analysis of the Netherlands and Belgium Start Date: 25/03/2021 End Date: 23/05/2026
  • Law PhD September 01 2016
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy HEA Fellow
  • Associate Fellow (AFHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2013

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