Baroness
Ruth Deech
Ruth Deech was a tutor in law at Oxford University (specialising
in family and property law) until she was elected Principal of one
of Oxford’s largest colleges, St Anne’s, from 1991 to 2004.
She chaired Admissions at Oxford and was a pro Vice-Chancellor.
She was chair for 7 years of the UK Human Fertilisation & Embryology
Authority, a national committee charged with regulating assisted
reproductive treatments and embryo research. She was one of the last
Governors of the BBC (2002-2006) and a Rhodes Scholarships Trustee.
From 2004 to 2008 she was the first Independent Adjudicator for
Higher Education for England and Wales, the national campus
ombudsman for 147 universities, dealing with thousands of student
complaints. In 2008 she was appointed Gresham Professor of Law,
London, and lectures on family law.
From January 2009 she chairs the Bar Standards Board, regulating
barristers, their training, their conduct and the way in which their
practice is structured. She has just completed a report for the
Department of Health on Women Doctors – Making a Difference.
Ruth Deech became Baroness Deech when she was created a life peer in
2005 and sits in the House of Lords as a non-party legislator.
She is a member of the Merits of Statutory Instruments Committee
which scrutinises a thousand statutory instruments a year.
Ruth lives in Oxford where her husband is a solicitor and her
daughter who is a BBC journalist.
Topics
Reproductive technologies and the birth of
Human Fertilisation
Ethics, embryos and infertility
Choosing your baby
Fertility and Feminism
Judicial control of regulation
Human Rights and Welfare
Divorce law - a disaster?
What's a woman worth? The maintenance law
Cohabitation and the Law
Sisters, sisters, there were never such
devoted sisters
The Ethics of Reproduction
Seminar: The Ethics of Reproduction
Civil Partnerships
Books by Ruth Deech
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This is a book for anyone who has ever paused to wonder
whether cloning will ever be legal. Why it is that "saviour
siblings" and sex selection provoke such strong reactions?
Will there ever be such a thing as an artificial womb?
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