(Elizabeth) Chloe Romanis

The insights of Durham's @ecromanis.bsky.social have featured in The Guardian, in a piece which explores partial ectogestation. As a leading researcher in reproduction and the law, Chloe’s work continues to shape vital conversations around reproductive regulation. Read more: bit.ly/4nU0ypi

This machine could keep a baby alive outside the womb. How will the world decide to use it? For parents who have buried infants born too soon, a device like the AquaWomb is a miracle in waiting – and an impossible choice

I am delighted to see this great piece in the Guardian about developments in partial ectogestation - www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... - and glad to have had the opportunity to contribute some of the insights from my work over the last 8 years @durham.ac.uk

Congrats Professor!!

Human trials of artificial wombs could start soon. Here’s what you need to know US regulators will consider clinical trials of a system that mimics the womb, which could reduce deaths and disability for babies born extremely preterm.

all the time, like @ecromanis.bsky.social; this isn't SciFic, as @maxkozlov.bsky.social wrote, it's a work in progress

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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last day of this discount code! ✨

Diverse Voices in Health Law - a new @brisunipress.bsky.social edited textbook designed to bring EDI and social justice perspectives to the health(care) law curriculum - is 50% off until the end of June (making it just £15!)

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Call for papers for a major two-day conference on Legal Methodologies exploring the nature of the discipline, with really important keynote speakers. Any abstracts, if you are interested in participating, to be emailed to law.research@ncl.ac.uk by 7 July.

Looking forward to this event celebrating our next textbook - about bringing EDI and social justice to the Health(care) Law and Ethics curriculum - please join us if you are in London on Monday evening!

🚀 Join us for a reception for the launch of Diverse Voices in Health Law at @citystgeorges.bsky.social London, 16 June 5pm

www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

This. It is not for the law to define a person's sexuality.

Excited to share my latest paper 'Mens Pregnancies and Nonbinary Pregnancies in The Law: Ontic Injustice and/or Invisibilization' just published
#openaccess in Alternatives: Local, Global, and Political.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Looking forward to speaking at this event on ectogestation at the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies and Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris on Thursday. Registration for online or in person attendance is here: my.weezevent.com/twilight-bio...

Love the cover!

We are currently advertising for an Assistant Professor in Law and Safeguarding (Research & Education) at Durham Law School. Deadline is 21 April: durham.taleo.net/careersectio... Please share widely and do get in touch if you would like to discuss this position.

So excited that our symposium, funded by Broadly Conceived, is now open for registration! We'll be examining the potential impact of the Law Commissions' report on surrogacy in relation to wider reproductive technologies. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/surrogacy-...

My book is published online

academic.oup.com/book/59062

- or if you prefer a hard copy, there is a discount at the moment!

Meet the book author: Biotechnology, Gestation, and the Law | Journal of Law and Society Elizabeth Chloe Romanis, Durham University Biotechnology, Gestation, and the Law was published by Oxford University Press in January 2025. What is the book ...

Glad to have been invited to write a little about my recently published book, 'Biotechnology, Gestation, and the Law' on the Journal of Law and Society blog! journaloflawandsociety.co.uk/blog/meet-th...

I recorded a podcast for the IJFAB Blog talking about this paper: utppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

In Chapter 19, Death & Dying, Dunja Begovic, Yakubu Salifu, and Sheila Payne consider the ethico-legal challenges in palliative care noting that the focus is often on right to die, rather than rights to quality of life care. They also explore global inequalities in palliative care 🌍

Chapter 18, exploring research ethics, provides a much-needed historical contextualisation of the foundations of clinical research ethics by Zareen Bheekhun & Silvia Camporesi. They problematise how principles like clinical equipoise and therapeutic misconception have been applied 👩‍🔬

In Chapter 17 Aileen Editha considers how organ scarcity for donation particularly impacts ethnic minorities in the UK and whether and what law and regulation can do it address this - with focus on recent changes to opt out in the UK 🫀

Chapter 16 considers capable children’s medical treatment using fiction. Rebecca Limb considers the extent to which young people are empowered to consent to and refuse medical treatment and the evident asymmetry 🔞

In Chapter 15 @zainamahmoud.bsky.social and I consider the obstetric violence and racism that is a systemic problem in the NHS and beyond and the extent to which the law intervenes in birthing choices and behaviour in pregnancy 🤰🏽

Chapter 14 covers abortion and contraception. @whiterxbbit.bsky.social introduces feminist perspectives, access challenges in the UK, contemporary legal debates about abortion (criminal status and disability grounds) and the utility of a reproductive justice lens ⚖️

In Chapter 13 Rita D’Alton Harrison, Philip Bremner, and Cynthia Mbugua consider access to assisted reproductive technologies and how access has been limited along the axes of ethnicity, sexual orientation, and age 🧫

Chapter 12 looks at the law of confidentiality. @japarsons.bsky.social Naomi Jones and I use the case studies of adult and child safeguarding to explore information disclosure and abortion reporting requirements to explore data protection 📊

In Chapter 11 @drmagdafurgalska.bsky.social draws from her empirical work to show how mental health law enabling inpatient care is experienced by individuals. The chapter introduces the capabilities approach and considers the potential that it offers to think about the law differently 💬

In Chapter 10 @bevclough.bsky.social explores the ableist assumptions underlying the Mental Capacity Act 2005, the utility of using a disability studies perspective to think about capacity, and what we should be learning from the UNCRPD 🧍‍♀️

Chapter 9 explores informed consent and whether there has been a problematic shift towards treating patients like consumers in obtaining their consent. Caterina Milo and Thana De Campos-Rudinsky consider how reframing our discussion of the dr-patient relationship with ‘Ethics of Love’ may help ❤️