Dr Louise Hatherall

Birmingham Law School
Research Fellow

Contact details

Address
Birmingham Law School
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

I am currently a Research Fellow, based at Birmingham Law School. I conduct socio-legal research broadly directed at the law and regulation of technologies which impact health, intellectual property, and public engagement in these spaces.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Law, University of Bristol, 2021
  • MSc in Socio-Legal Research Methods, University of Bristol, 2016
  • LLB, University of Kent, 2011

Biography

I am a Research Fellow at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Law School and broadly interested in socio-legal empirical research, and particularly how this can explore the intersections between health technologies, patents, regulation, and the public. I obtained my MSc in Socio-Legal Studies (2016) and PhD in Law from the University of Bristol (2021), both funded by an ESRC 1+3 grant. I also hold an LLB from the University of Kent (2011).Ìý

I work on a number of projects at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø. I am a Research Fellow on the Wellcome funded Everyday Cyborgs 2.0 project with Professor Muireann Quigley. I am a collaborator on the (which has received funding from BIIF, AHRC, and the Nightscout Foundation) and the IAS funded Psychedelics and Regulatory Decision Making project.Ìý I am a Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society (CBSS) and an alumni affiliate of the Centre for Technomoral Futures, both at the University of Edinburgh. I was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow within CBSS working on the ‘’ project and the Subject Lead for the Foundations of Law and Politics programme at the University of Bristol.

I have previously taught on the intercalculated Bioethics, Law, and Society programme at the University of Edinburgh. At the University of Bristol, I delivered teaching on core foundational Law modules (including Constitutional Law, and Introduction to Studying Law). I have also delivered guest lectures on Intellectual Property Law and Socio-Legal approaches to research.

I am an active member of several networks, including the Socio-Legal Studies Association, Patent Scholars Network, NELSIP, and the Empirical Legal Research Network. Between 2021 - 2025 I acted as External Examiner for the International Foundation Programme at the University of Reading.Ìý

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Publications

Recent publications

Article

Hatherall, L & Sethi, N 2025, '', Journal of Responsible Technology.

Hatherall, L & Sethi, N 2024, '', Journal of Law and Society, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 586-609.

Hatherall, L 2022, '', European Intellectual Property Review, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 198-208. <>

Book/Film/Article review

Hatherall, L 2019, '', The Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, vol. 70, no. 1.

Conference contribution

Hatherall, L, Keküllüoğlu, D, Kökciyan, N, Rovatsos, M, Vallor, S, Sethi, N & Vierkant, T 2023, . in TAS '23: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems., 50, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Other contribution

Hatherall, L 2024, . Durham University . <>

Vallor, S & Hatherall, L 2023, .. <>

Paper

Keküllüoğlu, D, Hatherall, L, Sethi, N, Vierkant, T, Vallor, S, Kokciyan, N & Rovatsos, M 2023, '', Paper presented at 26th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing, Minneapolis, United States, 14/10/23 - 18/10/23. <>