Prof. Craig Purshouse
Associate Professor
Deputy Director, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
Deputy Director, Centre for Private Law
Biography
Craig Purshouse joined the Faculty of Law as an Associate Professor in June 2024.
Craig’s teaching and research interests are in the law of torts and medical law, with a particular focus on the area where they overlap: medical negligence. His work has been published in leading journals such as Cambridge Law Journal, Law Quarterly Review, Legal Studies, Medical Law Review, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and Torts Law Journal. Craig’s research has been cited by the UK Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal of Singapore, the High Court of England and Wales, the English and Scottish Law Commissions, and in the UK Parliament.
Craig is currently the Commentaries Editor of Medical Law Review. He was previously the joint Editor-in-Chief of Medical Law International and remains on the editorial board.
Selected journal articles
Selected book chapters
Selected commentaries
Craig Purshouse, ‘Rethinking Negligence Liability for “Pure Psychiatric Damage”: An Analogy with Assault’ (2026) Legal Studies, First View: https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2026.10138.
Craig Purshouse, ‘Reconceiving Tort Liability for “Wrongful Life”’ (2025) 84 Cambridge Law Journal 664.
Emma Cave, Craig Purshouse and Joe Purshouse, ‘Liability For Rugby Related Neuro-Degenerative Disease: A Question of Tort’ [2024] Journal of Personal Injury Law 93.
Craig Purshouse, ‘Tort Theory and the Interpretive Sleight of Hand’ (2024) 140 Law Quarterly Review 301.
Craig Purshouse and Ilias Trispiotis, ‘Is “Conversion Therapy” Tortious?’ (2022) 42 Legal Studies 23
Ilias Trispiotis and Craig Purshouse, ‘“Conversion Therapy” as Degrading Treatment’ (2022) 42 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 104.
Craig Purshouse, ‘Flourishing Under Private Law: A Critique of McBride’s Explanatory Theory’ (2021) 34 Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence 239.
Emma Cave and Craig Purshouse, ‘Think of the Children: Liability for Non-Disclosure of Information Post-Montgomery’ (2020) 28 Medical Law Review 270.
Craig Purshouse, ‘Utilitarianism as Tort Theory: Countering the Caricature’ (2018) 38 Legal Studies 24.
Craig Purshouse and Kate Bracegirdle, ‘The Problem of Unenforceable Surrogacy Contracts: Can Unjust Enrichment Provide a Solution?’ (2018) 26 Medical Law Review 557.
Craig Purshouse, ‘Arrested Development: Police Negligence and the Caparo “Test” for Duty of Care’ (2016) 23 Torts Law Journal 1.
Craig Purshouse, ‘A Defence of the Counterfactual Account of Harm’ (2016) 30 Bioethics 251.
Craig Purshouse, ‘Liability for Lost Autonomy in Negligence: Undermining the Coherence of Tort Law?’ (2015) 22 Torts Law Journal 226.
Craig Purshouse, ‘The Montgomery Mistake’ in Louise Austin and Jose Miola (eds), Research Handbook on Medical Consent (Edward Elgar 2026).
Craig Purshouse and Keith Syrett, ‘Institutional Liability’ in Judy Laing and Jean McHale (eds), Principles of Medical Law (OUP 2025).
Craig Purshouse, ‘The Politics of Pure Economic Loss’ in Kirsty Horsey (ed), Diverse Voices in Tort Law (BUP 2024).
‘How to Control Disease Transmission: On Margaret Brazier and John Harris’s “Public Health and Private Lives”’ in Sara Fovargue and Craig Purshouse (eds), Leading Works in Health Care Law and Ethics (Routledge 2023).
Edward Lui and Craig Purshouse, ‘Illegality, Insanity and Inconsistency: Ex Turpi Causa Revisited’ (2026) Law Quarterly Review (forthcoming).
Craig Purshouse and Emma Cave, ‘Fifty Years of the Congenital Disabilities (Civil Liability) Act 1976: A Spent Statute?’ (2026) 34 Medical Law Review fwag003.
Craig Purshouse, ‘Secondary Victims in the Supreme Court’ (2024) 40 Professional Negligence 139.
Amel Alghrani and Craig Purshouse, ‘Damages for Reproductive Negligence: Commercial Surrogacy on the NHS?’ (2019) 135 Law Quarterly Review 405.
Craig Purshouse, ‘The Impatient Patient and the Unreceptive Receptionist’ (2019) 27 Medical Law Review 318.