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Deryck Beyleveld

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Deryck Beyleveld is founding Director of the Sheffield Institute of Biotechnological Law and Ethics (SIBLE) and is now a member of Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences). He is Professor of Law and Bioethics, and a former Head of Law School at Durham University. He is on the editorial board of Medical Law International.

Education

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He was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand, Pembroke College, Cambridge, and completed his PhD at the University of East Anglia in 1975.

Career

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Professor Beyleveld is the leading exponent of the moral theory of the late Alan Gewirth and, as such, his work has attracted extensive academic support[1][2] and criticism.[3] Over a long career he has collaborated with many academics, principally Professor Roger Brownsword, King's College London and Professor Shaun Pattinson, Durham University.

Bibliography

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  • Dialectical Necessity of Morality: An Analysis and Defense of Alan Gewirth's Argument to the Principle of Generic Consistency University of Chicago Press, 1991. ISBN 0-226-04482-3
  • Human Dignity in Bioethics and Biolaw (with Roger Brownsword) Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-19-826826-2
  • The Sole Fact of Pure Reason (with Marcus Düwell) De Gruyter, 2020. ISBN 9783110691252

References

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  1. ^ S Toddington (1993). "Review of The Dialectical Necessity of Morality". Modern Law Review. 65: 619–620.
  2. ^ Ethical rationalism and the law. Capps, Patrick,, Pattinson, Shaun D. Oxford. 2017. ISBN 9781849467865. OCLC 919107782.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. ^ M Singer (2000). "Gewirth, Beyleveld, and Dialectical Necessity". Ratio Juris. 13 (2): 177–195. doi:10.1111/1467-9337.00149.
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