Assisted Dying and Legal Change

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Penney Lewis (Reader in Law, Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, King's College London)

Assisted Dying and Legal Change

Penney Lewis (Reader in Law, Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, King's College London)

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Oxford University Press
01 March 2007

Ethical issues: euthanasia & right to die; Human rights; Medical & healthcare law; Terminal care nursing

The question of whether euthanasia and assisted suicide should be legalized is often treated, by judges and commentators alike, as a universal, ethical question, transcending national boundaries and diverse legal systems. By thinking of the issue in this way, the important context in which individual jurisdictions make decisions about assisted dying and the significance of the legal methods chosen to carry out those decisions is often lost. This book examines the impact of the choice of diverse legal routes towards legalization on the subsequent assisted dying regimes in operation. This examination suggests that greater caution is needed before relying on the experience of one jurisdiction when discussing proposals for regulation of assisted dying in others. The book seeks to demonstrate the need to explore the legal environment in which assisted dying is performed or proposed in order to evaluate the relevance of a particular legal experience to other jurisdictions. The book begins with an examination of the unsuccessful attempts to use constitutionally entrenched human rights claims to challenge criminal prohibitions on assisted suicide which reached the highest courts in the United States, Canada and Europe. Their failure makes legalization through a rights-based claim unlikely in any major common law or European jurisdiction. Alternative routes towards legalization are then discussed, including the defence of necessity, by which euthanasia was effectively legalized in the Netherlands and an approach based on compassion which has been proposed in France, as well as the legislative approaches which have been taken in Oregon, Belgium and the Northern Territory of Australia. All of these approaches are compared in detail, with particular attention paid to the effectiveness and transferability of the ubiquitous slippery slope arguments

By: Penney Lewis (Reader in Law Centre of Medical Law and Ethics King's College London)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 530g
ISBN: 9780199212873
ISBN 10: 0199212872
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 01 March 2007
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1: Introduction 2: Rights to Assisted Dying 3: The Effects of Rights 4: Duties and Necessity 5: Compassion 6: Comparing the Mechanisms of Legal Change 7: The Slippery Slope

Penney Lewis is Reader in Law at the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics and the School Law, King's College London where she teaches medical law and criminal evidence. From September 2007 she will be Professor of Law.

Reviews for Assisted Dying and Legal Change

The book is well organized and provides a plethora of resource information...The depth of literature that is woven into the analysis will provide a wonderful resource for students and scholars in the field. Gerard Magill, The Heythrop Journal