Professor Tamara Hervey
email : t.hervey@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)114 222 6723
School of Law
The University Of Sheffield
Bartolomé House
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
Qualifications
PhD, University of Sheffield
LLB (Hons), University of Glasgow
Research Interests
My main research interests are in the field of European Union social and constitutional law, in particular its application in health fields, social security and welfare, and non-discrimination. I am interested in the phenomenon of 'new governance' in the EU, in particular as an alternative or supplement to 'command and control' means of regulation in social fields. I have published on the European Union´s competence in social fields, especially health law; on the regulation of tobacco in the EU context; on European public health law and policy; on the governance of stem cell research in the EU; on EU non-discrimination law and minority rights; and on the 'right to health' in European contexts. I am interested in socio-legal theory and method, in particular as applied to the law of the European Union.
Convenor of the Centre for the Study of Law in Society.
Member of CLIC and SIBLE.
Key Publications
T. Hervey, `The European Union´s Governance of Health Care and the Welfare Modernization Agenda´ 2 Regulation and Governance (2008) 103-120
T Hervey and L Trubek, `Freedom to provide health care services within the EU: An opportunity for a Transformative Directive´ 13 (3) Columbia Journal of European Law (2007) 623-649.
T. Hervey, `The European Union and the governance of health care´ in de Búrca and Scott, eds, New Governance and Constitutionalism in the EU and the US (Oxford: Hart, 2006) 179-210.
T. Hervey and J McHale Health Law and the European Union (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Law in Context, 2004) (lxix + 469pp).
T. Hervey, ed, `Thirty Years of EU Sex Equality Law´ – Special Edition of Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 12 MJ 4 (2005).
T Hervey and H Black `The European Union and the governance of stem cell research´ 12 Maastricht Journal (2005) 3-40.
Key Projects/Grants
Projects
Health Law and Governance in the European Union
I am currently working on the interactions between `hard´ and `soft´ law, and other governance activities, in the European Union´s governance of health. This includes public health policies, such as anti-tobacco policy; the regulation of research, particularly in respect of new technologies; the design of healthcare systems; and the implications of the `single European market´ for healthcare. I am collaborating with scholars on continental Europe and in the USA, from disciplines including law, health policy, sociology and political science.
Other Projects
I am also currently working (with Robert Cryer, University of Birmingham and Baldeep Sokhi-Bulley, University of Nottingham) on an AHRC-funded project on legal research methodologies in EU and international law.
Grants
Research Title:Legal Research Methodologies in EU and international law
Awarding Body: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Training Award scheme
People Involved: R. Cryer and B. Sokhi-Bulley, University of Nottingham, and partners in Queen´s University Belfast; University of Birmingham; University of Durham; University of Glasgow; University of Leicester; University of Liverpool; University of Manchester; University of Nottingham
Years Funded: 2006-2008
Amount: £9996
Research Title: Bioethics, law and the regulation of biotechnologies in the European Union: the case of umbilical cord stem cell banking.
Awarding Body: ESRC Small Grant Scheme
People Involved: PI Helen Busby, University of Nottingham; Professor R Dingwall, University of Nottingham
Years Funded: 2007-2009
Research Title: European Health Law
Awarding Body: AHRB Research Leave Scheme
Years Funded: 2002-2003
Amount: £12,035
Professional Activities and Recognition
Member of Advisory Editorial Board of Health Economics, Policy and Law 2005-
Member of Arts and Humanities Research Council´s Peer Review College 2004-
Invited keynote speaker at international conferences including Seeking Solidarity in the European Union – towards social citizenship and a European welfare state?, supported by the Modern Law Review, Sussex, May 2008 Irish European Law Forum, Tenth Annual Conference Regulating Liberalising Markets and Social Europe: New Governance in the EU, Dublin, Ireland, 2007; European Science Foundation SCSS Exploratory Workshop, Stem Cell Cultures: Exploring the Social and Cultural Background to European Debates about Human Embryonic Stem Cells, Nottingham, 2006; European Commission, Ministero della Salute, Italy, Veneto Regional Government, Italy, and European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Cross-Border Health Care: Challenges and Perspectives, Venice, Italy, 2005; VIIth European Regional Congress of the International Society for Labour Law and Social Security, Stockholm, Sweden, September 2002.
Academic Expert, Panel on Pre-authorisation and access to health care, Brussels, European Commission, April 2007.
Consultant for European Parliament Briefing Note IP/A/ALL/FWC/2006-105/LOT 3/C1/SC1 Impact and Consequences of the Exclusion of Health Services in the Internal Market, January 2007 (Ramboll Management, Copenhagen & Matrix Research and Consultancy, London).
Academic Expert, Public Hearing on the proposed Tobacco Advertising Directive, Brussels, European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs and Internal Market, April 2002.
Teaching
Undergraduate
- LAW3008 Law of the European Union
- Current Issues in EU Law
Postgraduate
- Legal Research Methods
- Socio-Legal Theory and Method
- Judicial Protection in the European Union
- EU Constitutional Law
- EU Internal Market Law
- EU Social Law and Policy
- EU Health Law and Policy
Areas of Research Supervision
- European Union Law
- Health Law and policy in trans-national contexts
- Discrimination Law and social rights
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