Dr Kenneth Veitch

Biography

Kenneth Veitch joined Sussex Law School in August 2004. He studied law at the Universities of Aberdeen (LLB), Glasgow (LLM), Cardiff (PhD), and Edinburgh (DipLP).

Role

Member - Sussex Law School Undergraduate Admissions Committee

Areas of Research Interest: Law, Politics and the Welfare State; Social Solidarity; Social Policy and Techniques of Governing; Neoliberalism; Social Theory; Sociology of Law; Critical and Theoretical Approaches to Health Care Law and Policy.

I welcome research proposals from prospective postgraduate research students wishing to study in any of the above areas.

Publications

Book

The Jurisdiction of Medical Law (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007) Further Details: https://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&pagecount=1&title_id=7511&edition_id=10047

Journal Articles

'Juridification, Medicalisation and the Impact of EU Law: Patient Mobility and the Allocation of Scarce NHS Resources' (2012) Medical Law Review (Advance Access - doi: 10.1093/medlaw/fws008) 1-37 http://medlaw.oxfordjournals.org.ezproxy.sussex.ac.uk/content/early/2012/04/24/medlaw.fws008.abstract

'Social Solidarity and the Power of Contract' (2011) 38(2) Journal of Law and Society 189-214 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2011.00540.x/abstract

'The Government of Healthcare and the Politics of Patient Empowerment - New Labour and the NHS Reform Agenda in England' (2010) 32(3) Law & Policy 313-31 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9930.2010.00321.x/abstract?systemMessage=Wiley+Online+Library+will+be+disrupted+5+Nov+from+10-12+GMT+for+monthly+maintenance

'Medical Law and the Power of Life and Death' (2006) 2(2) International Journal of Law in Context 137-57 http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=547668

'Being Ms B: B, Autonomy and the Nature of Legal Regulation' (2004) 26(1) Sydney Law Review 107-30 (with Derek Morgan) http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/SydLRev/2004/6.html

Case Comment - R (on the application of Quintavalle) v Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (2003) 25(4) Journal of Social Welfare & Family Law 391-97

Workshops Organised

'Securing Insecurity - Law and the Foundations of Contemporary Social and Economic Insecurity', University of Sussex, 2009 (Sponsored by the The Modern Law Review)

Workshop & Conference Papers

'Law and the Social Embeddedness of Welfare State Marketisation', Conference on Towards an Economic Sociology of Law, School of Law, SOAS, University of London, forthcoming 2012

'Neoliberalism and the Politics of Solidarity', Law & Society Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, US, 2011

'Law, Politics and the Allocation of Scarce Health Care Resources', Staff Seminar, Centre for Comparative and Public Law, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong, 2010

‘Law, Social Policy, and the Power of Contract’, Workshop on 'Power of Law', Helsinki Law School, University of Helsinki, 2010

‘Contract and the Government of Social Insecurity’, Research Seminar, Centre for Social and Political Thought, University of Sussex, 2009

‘Contract and the Normalisation of Social Insecurity’, Workshop on 'Securing Insecurity: Law and the Foundations of Contemporary Social and Economic Insecurity', School of Law, University of Sussex, 2009

‘Choosing Responsibly and the Responsibility to Choose: Reflections on New Labour’s NHS Reform Agenda in England’, Critical Legal Conference, School of Law, University of Glasgow, 2008

‘The Conditions of a Meaningful Human Rights Discourse in the Era of Globalisation’, Seminar on ‘Globalisation and Human Rights’, Symbiosis Law School, Pune, India, 2007

‘Jurisdiction and the Emergence of Academic Medical Law’, Workshop on ‘Ethics and the Making of Medical Law’, The Institute of Medicine, Law & Bioethics, University of Liverpool, 2007

‘Medical Law, Human Rights, and Judicial Conservatism’, The National Critical Lawyers Group Annual Conference, School of Law, University of Kent, 2007

‘The Jurisdiction of Medical Law: From Medicalisation to Legalisation’, Staff Seminar, School of Law, University of Sussex, 2007

‘Regulating Morality: A Critical Analysis of the Power of Medical Law’, Staff Seminar, School of Law, University of Glasgow, 2006

‘Human Rights and the Power of Medical Law’, Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Stirling, 2006

• The Law of Contract (UG)
• Health Care Law (UG)
• Sociology of Law (UG)
• Dissertation (UG)
• Law & Social Theory (PG)

Student Consultation

Summer Term 2011-12

I do not have set consultation times during the Summer Term. Should you have a question or wish to arrange an appointment, please email me at: K.J.Veitch@sussex.ac.uk

Kenneth Veitch

Veitch, Kenneth (2012) Juridification, Medicalisation and the Impact of EU Law: Patient Mobility and the Allocation of Scarce NHS Resources. Medical Law Review. ISSN 0967-0742