Sara Fovargue is a Professor of Law at the University of Sheffield, having previously been Professor of Law at Lancaster University. She has taught and researched issues relating to health law and ethics, and family law (particularly relating to children) throughout her career. She is particularly interested in matters relating to decision making for the ‘vulnerable’; risk and regulation; clinical research involving human and non-human animals; developing and emerging biotechnologies (such as xenotransplantation); reproduction and reproductive technologies; organ donation and transplantation; and conscientious objection. With regards to family law, her interests relate to parents, parenthood and reproductive technologies; children and health; children and childhood. She has published in leading legal and bioethical journals including the Law Quarterly Review, Legal Studies, Medical Law Review, Child and Family Law Quarterly, Journal of Medical Ethics, and the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. Her monograph, Xenotransplantation and Risk: Regulating a Developing Biotechnology, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2012, and her co-edited a collection, The Legitimacy of Medical Treatment: What Role for the Medical Exception?, was published by Routledge in 2015. A co-edited collection, Leading Works on Health Law and Ethics, will be published by Routledge in 2023. Her research has been funded by Wellcome, the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the AHRC. She is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College, joint Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Law Review, and a Fellow of the RSA.