News archive 2007

CBE for King's law professor

02 Jan 2007, PR 01/07

Genevra Richardson, Professor of Law at King's, has been awarded a CBE in the Queen's New Year's Honours in recognition of her services to public law.

Professor Richardson came to King's in 2005. She had taught for many years at Queen Mary, University of London, where she was Dean of the Law Faculty from 1996 to 1999. Before that she was at the University of East Anglia and the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies in Oxford.

Professor Richardson maintains three main areas of research interest: administrative justice, law and psychiatry and the regulation of biomedical research. Her interest in administrative justice relates closely to her work on the Council on Tribunals.

In law and psychiatry she continues to examine the possible ethical bases for legal intervention and is also part of a team based at the Institute of Psychiatry which has received funds from both the Department of Health and the Wellcome Trust to examine various aspects of consent to treatment within psychiatry. In 2004 she was elected to an honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Finally, her involvement with the regulation of stem cell banking as a member of the Steering Committee of the UK Stem Cell Bank has led to a growing interest in the role of regulation in the field of biomedical research. She is also a trustee of the Nuffield Foundation and a member of the Council of the Medical Research Council.






Notes to editors

King's College London
King's College London is the fourth oldest university in England with more than 13,700 undergraduates and nearly 6,200 graduate students in nine schools of study based at five London campuses. It is a member of the Russell Group: a coalition of the UK's major research-based universities. The College has had 24 of its subject-areas awarded the highest rating of 5* and 5 for research quality, demonstrating excellence at an international level, and it has recently received an excellent result in its audit by the Quality Assurance Agency.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, international relations, medicine, nursing and the sciences, and has played major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA. It is the largest centre for the education of health care professionals in Europe and is home to five Medical Research Council Centres – more than any other university.

King's is in the top group of UK universities for research earnings, with income from grants and contracts of more than £114 million, and has anannual income of more than £369 million.



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