Deryck Beyleveld is founding Director of the Sheffield Institute of Biotechnological Law and Ethics (SIBLE) and is now a member of Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences). He is Professor of Law and Bioethics, and a former Head of

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. He is on the editorial board of

Medical Law International ''Medical Law International'' is a peer-reviewed law review that covers issues in medical law, bioethics, and health governance. It was established in 1993 and is currently published by SAGE Publications Sage Publishing, formerly SAGE Publicat ...

Education

He was educated at the

University of the Witwatersrand The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (), commonly known as Wits University or Wits, is a multi-campus Public university, public research university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg, South Africa. The universit ...

Pembroke College, Cambridge Pembroke College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college is the third-oldest college of the university and has over 700 students and fellows. It is one of the university's larger colleges, with buildings from ...

, and completed his PhD at the

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in 1975.

Career

Professor Beyleveld is the leading exponent of the moral theory of the late

Alan Gewirth Alan Gewirth (November 28, 1912 – May 9, 2004) was an American philosopher, a professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, and author of '' Reason and Morality'' (1978), ''Human Rights: Essays on Justification and Applications'' (1 ...

and, as such, his work has attracted extensive academic support and criticism. Over a long career he has collaborated with many academics, principally Professor Roger Brownsword, King's College London and Professor

Shaun Pattinson Shaun D. Pattinson is a British legal scholar specializing in medical law and medical ethics. He currently serves as a Professor of Medical Law and Ethics at Durham Law School, Durham University. In 2011, he founded the Centre for Ethics and L ...

, Durham University.

Bibliography

* ''Dialectical Necessity of Morality: An Analysis and Defense of Alan Gewirth's Argument to the Principle of Generic Consistency'' University of Chicago Press, 1991. * ''Human Dignity in Bioethics and Biolaw'' (with Roger Brownsword) Oxford University Press, 2002. *''The Sole Fact of Pure Reason'' (with Marcus Düwell) De Gruyter, 2020.

References

External links

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Durham CELLS
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