Personal Statement
Marie Fox holds the Queen Victoria Chair of Law, in the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool. She has previously worked at the Universities of Birmingham, Keele, Manchester, Queen's Belfast and Lancaster.

Her research interests are in animal law, veterinary ethics, health law and feminist theory.
Her research has been funded by the AHRC, ESRC, Dunhill Medical Trust, Wellcome Trust and the Socio-legal Studies Association.
Marie's work on legal responses to genital cutting with Michael Thomson has twice been awarded the Socio-Legal Studies Association Article Prize for the ‘most outstanding piece of socio-legal scholarship in the award year (2013 and 2019).
Over the academic year 2023-4 she holds a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship for a project on 'Law, Loss and Companion Species'.

She is a co-ordinating editor of Social and Legal Studies and Medical Law International, and sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Animal Law, Ethics and One Health and on the Advisory Board of the Journal of Law and Society.

Marie has supervised 18 doctoral students to completion and currently supervises PhD projects which address the legal status of animals, the 'until death' clause in the Gender Recognition Act, supported decision-making under the Mental Capacity Act and reproductive autonomy in the context of elective sterilisation.

She is happy to consider PhD proposals on animal-human relations, law and reproduction, legal embodiment and health law regulation.

Research Overview
Current/Ongoing Externally Funded Research Projects:

2023-4: Law, Loss, and Companion Species’, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship Scheme (September 2023 – August 2024, £40.9k)

2023-4: (with Sarah Singh) 'Legal Governance of Dog Rescues: Framing Regulation for Northern Ireland' University of Liverpool Impact Acceleration Fund (ESRC Pump-priming strand; Aug 2023 - Sept 2024, £16, 969k in collaboration with Causeway Coast Dog Rescue.)

2022-3: (with Sarah Singh) ‘Legal Governance of Dog Rescues: Addressing Post-Pandemic Challenges in a Period of Austerity’, Funded by Research England (Jan-July 2023, £20,919k). This project addresses the case for legal regulation of dog rescues across the devolved jurisdictions of the UK, in collaboration with A-law, Battersea Dogs & Cat Home and the Kennel Club.

2022-3: 'Compassion in the Work Place: Addressing Pet Loss', Funded by Socio-legal Studies Association Impact Grant Scheme £1,410 and University of Liverpool, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Flexible Faculty Fund for Impact £2750 (2022-23). This is a project under the auspices of the Pet Loss Network, which aims to raise awareness and share good practice within the field of pet bereavement and loss - https://petlossnetwork.org and in collaboration with the Blue Cross.

2021-4: CI (with Frith PI, Manchester and an inter-disciplinary team from Birmingham, De Montfort, and Warwick) ‘Direct-to-consumer genetic testing and donor-conception: support and governance in emerging digital systems’ (three year ESRC Standard Grant £766,670 April 2021- March 2024). The project explores novel questions about technological developments in genetic testing and how they can be regulated, with a particular focus on the potential of these technologies to shape the lived experience of donor conception.

2018: PI (with Ray, Lincoln): ‘He means the world to me’: Human rights implications of separating older people from their pets in residential care/nursing homes.’ Dunhill Medical Trust £77,000 RPGF1711\7 (May 2018-September 2021).

2018: CI (with Frith, Liverpool (PI) and Hudson, DMU) ‘Global Perspectives on Governing Assisted Reproductive Technologies’. Wellcome Trust. £29,687 211011/Z/18/Z December 2018 – October 2021.

(For detail see - https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/law/research/health-law-and-regulation-unit/research-projects/)