Margaret Brazier

Margaret Rosetta "Margot" Brazier is a professor at the University of Manchester's School of Law.

Margaret is married to Rodney Brazier, a professor of constitutional law also at the University of Manchester.

Academic work
Brazier researches legal issues in the field of medicine, including medical ethics. She is a barrister, ex-member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (1998-2001), Editor of the Medical Law Review, and ex-president of the Society of Legal Scholars (formerly, Society of Public Teachers of Law) (1997-1999). Brazier was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2014, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

She has chaired a number of committees, including:
 * Chair of the Animal Procedures Committee 1993–98.
 * Chair of Review of Surrogacy Arrangements 1996–98.
 * Chair of the Retained Organs Commission 2001–2004.
 * Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics Working Party The Ethics of Prolonging Life in Fetuses and the Newborn 2004–2006.

Recognition

 * Order of the British Empire (1997).
 * Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (1993).
 * Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2007).
 * Queen's Counsel (honoris causa) (2008).
 * Fellow of the British Academy (2014).