Role
Nashmil Motazedi is a Senior Law Lecturer, and a researcher in Medical Ethics & Law with a particular interest in topics related to human rights and moral philosophy. In addition to her research, she teaches the Law of Trusts, Medical Law (LLB/FT), Law in Action (LiA/FT), Legal and professional Environment (LLB), and the Beginning & Ending of Life Issues (LLM). Nashmil also supervises independent projects in Medical Ethics & Law at both the LLB and postgraduate levels.
Nashmil is the Module Leader to the following subjects:
The Beginning and Ending of Life Issues (LLM / Health Law and Ethics)
Medical Law (LLB/FT)
Nashmil is a Fellow in the HEA, acts as a personal and academic tutor for two groups of second-year students, and is a member of the Academic Irregularity Team.
Research areas
Nashmil is currently developing an ethical lens through which to examine human genome editing and using this to critique current practice and regulation - particularly regulation at the International level through human rights instruments like the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine and Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights.
She is broadly interested in themes related to ethics of genetic engineering that have ethical and legal dimensions.
Medical ethics and law especially:
- Principle of Generic Consistency
- Beginning of life issues
- Sanctity of life
- Bioethics and religion
- Genetic engineering for therapeutic, cloning and research purposes
- International human rights aspect.
External activity
Publication
Jonathan Doak, Marian Liebmann and Nashmil Motazedi "Restorative Justice in England and Wales" in Dünkel, Lehmkuhl and Pruin (eds), The International Encyclopaedia of Restorative Justice (2023)
Nashmil has presented papers at the following conferences;
Philosophy in Progress (PIP / January 2018): Medical Technologies and Personal Identity at the University of Nottingham. Abstract available at: https://pipconference.wordpress.com/philosophy-in-progress-2018/
“20 Years after” Oviedo Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (International Anniversary Conference / December 2017) : E-book / Abstract available at: http://www.academia.edu/33882810/Thessaloniki_International_Conference_8-9_December_2017_
Nashmil is a member of the SLS (Society of Legal Scholars) and a member of the Centre for Rights and Justice. She also acts as the NLS based organiser of the CERT mentors (previously known as, Buddies).
Press expertise
Nashmil can offer comment on medical law; ethics of genetically modifying human embryos; human cloning; beginning of life issues; inherent worth and international human rights.