Professor Emma Cave

Professor of Law, Durham University

Interests

Health law, bioethics

Background

Emma Cave's principal areas of research include compulsion, capacity and consent and she has a particular interest in the protection of vulnerable patients. She co-authors Medicine, Patients and the Law (7th edition, 2023) with Professor Margaret Brazier and Professor Rob Heywood).

She currently chairs the General Medical Council's Good Medical Practice Advisory Forum and was appointed as a core member to the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee Expert Panel in 2022 and the Assurance Group of The Cass Review in 2021. She served as a member of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority 2018-2021 where she was Deputy Chair of the Statutory Approvals Committee. She co-convened the Medical Ethics Expert Group of the Infected Blood Inquiry from 2019-2022.