Edward (Ted) Dove, Reader in Health Law and Regulation at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh
Deputy Director of the J Kenyon Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Sciences and Law.
Edward (Ted) Dove is Reader in Health Law and Regulation at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh, and Deputy Director of the J Kenyon Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Sciences and Law. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) in Political Science and Civil Law and Common Law degrees (BCL, LLB) from McGill University, a Master of Laws degree (LLM) from Columbia University, and a PhD in Law from the University of Edinburgh. Ted’s primary research interests are in the areas of data protection law, research ethics governance, and biomedical research regulation. Currently, Ted is a member of the National Data Guardian’s Panel, the UK National Contact for the European Association of Health Law (EAHL), and the UK representative for the European Network of Research Ethics Committees (EUREC). He is also an Editorial Board member of the journals Asian Bioethics Review and the European Journal of Health Law. He is Associate Editor of the journal Research Ethics. Among other works, he is the author of the open access monograph Regulatory Stewardship of Health Research: Navigating Participant Protection and Research Promotion (Edward Elgar, 2020), co-editor of Law and Legacy in Medical Jurisprudence: Essays in Honour of Graeme Laurie (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and co-author of the 11th edition of one of the leading medical law textbooks in the UK, Mason and McCall Smith’s Law and Medical Ethics (11th edn, Oxford University Press, 2019).