Dr Caterina Milo
School of Law
Lecturer in Law, co-director of Health Law Research Group
Full contact details
School of Law
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Bartolomé House
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Sheffield
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- Profile
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Caterina Milo is Lecturer in Law at the School of Law, University of Sheffield, where she currently co-leads the Health Law Research Group. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK) and a Research Fellow of St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge.
Alongside her academic work, she has contributed to public service through appointments as an independent member of several Judicial Appointment Commissions in England and Wales, and as a panel member for the appointment commission of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.
Before joining Sheffield, she was College Assistant Professor and Fellow in Law at Robinson College, University of Cambridge. She previously held a lectureship at the University of Exeter Law School.
Her research lies in the field of health law and ethics, with particular interests in informed consent, the doctor–patient relationship, and reproductive ethics. A central strand of her research focuses on reproductive decision-making, including abortion and antenatal loss. She analyses how legal frameworks regulate these experiences and how ethical principles, such as autonomy and medical partnership are reflected—or sometimes constrained—by law and policy. She is the author of 'Informed Consent to abortion: building bridges of dialogue in the medical encounter', a monograph published by Oxford University Press in 2025.
- Qualifications
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- Phd, Law, Durham University
- MA, Bioethics and Medical Law, St Mary University Twickenham
- BA/LLM University of Siena (Italy)
- Diploma in Legal Studies, University of Oxford
- Research interests
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- Ethics and Law of Consent
- Reproductive Ethics and Law
- Ethics and Law of Disability
- Doctor-Patients Rights and Duties
- Publications
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Books
- Informed Consent to Abortion. Oxford University PressNew York.
Edited books
- Research Handbook on Patient Safety and the Law. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Journal articles
- COVID-19 vaccination and the role of informed consent: England as a case study. European Journal of Health Law, 30(4), 428-448. View this article in WRRO
- Correction to: The role of knowledge and medical involvement in the context of informed consent: a curse or a blessing?. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 26(1), 157-157.
- The role of knowledge and medical involvement in the context of informed consent: a curse or a blessing?. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 26, 49-54. View this article in WRRO
- Informed consent: an empty promise? A comparative analysis between Italy and England, Wales, and Scotland. Medical Law International, 22(2), 147-166. View this article in WRRO
- Love as a journey in the informed consent context: legal abortion in England and Wales as a case study. The New Bioethics, 28(3), 208-222. View this article in WRRO
- Informing patients: The Bolam legacy. Medical Law International, 20(2), 103-130. View this article in WRRO
- Mitochondrial donations and the right to know and trace one’s genetic origins: an ethical and legal challenge. International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 32(2), 170-183. View this article in WRRO
Book chapters
- Consent to treatment In ROMANIS EC, GERMAIN S & HERRING J (Ed.), DIVERSE VOICES IN HEALTH LAW AND ETHICS (pp. 178-194). Bristol: Bristol University Press.
- The law and ethics of informed consent after Montgomery and the safeguard of patients’ safety, Research Handbook on Patient Safety and the Law (pp. 22-36). Edward Elgar Publishing
- Patient safety and the law: An introduction, Research Handbook on Patient Safety and the Law (pp. 1-9).
Book reviews
- The human embryo in vitro. The New Bioethics, 28(4), 382-385.
- Ethical Judgments: Re-writing Medical Law. The New Bioethics, 24(1), 99-101.
Other
- Copyright Page, iv-iv.
- Informed Consent to Abortion. Oxford University PressNew York.
- Research group
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Healthcare law and ethics
- Teaching interests
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- Tort Law
- Medical Law and Ethics
- EU Law
- Comparative Law
- Teaching activities
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- Advanced EU Law
- Advanced Tort
- Principles of Comparative Law
- Principles of Healthcare Law and Ethics
- Current Issues in Health Law, Ethics and Policy
- Contemporary Issues in Law and Justice
- Accounting and Law for Engineers
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Co-leader of the Health Law Research Group (University of Sheffield)
- Research Fellow at St Edmund College (University of Cambridge)