Margaret Brazier

Margaret Rosetta "Margot" Brazier (née Jacobs; 2 November 1950 – 4 March 2025) was a British academic who was a professor at the University of Manchester's School of Law.^[1]

Margaret Jacobs was born in Preston, Lancashire on 2 November 1950. She was married to Rodney Brazier, a professor of constitutional law also at the University of Manchester. She died on 4 March 2025, at the age of 74.^[2]

Brazier researched legal issues in the field of medicine, including medical ethics.^[1] She was a barrister, ex-member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (1998–2001),^[3] Editor of the Medical Law Review,^[4] and ex-president of the Society of Legal Scholars (formerly, Society of Public Teachers of Law) (1997–1999).^[5] Brazier was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2014, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.^[6]

She chaired a number of committees, including:

• Chair of the Animal Procedures Committee 1993–98.^[7]
• Chair of Review of Surrogacy Arrangements 1996–98.^{[8] [9]}
• Chair of the Retained Organs Commission 2001–2004.^[10]
• Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics Working Party on Critical Care Decisions in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine: Ethical Issues 2004–2006.^[11]

• Order of the British Empire (1997).
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (1993).
• Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2007).^[12]
• Queen's Counsel (honoris causa) (2008).^[13]
• Fellow of the British Academy (2014).^[6]

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