Professor Laura Hoyano
Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford; Barrister, Red Lion Chambers, London; Fellow of the Honourable Inn of the Middle Temple, United Kingdom
Email: laura.hoyano@law.ox.ac.uk
Profile
Laura's dual careers in academia and at the Canadian and English Bars focus on the intersections between areas of law commonly regarded as disconnected: Child Abuse and Criminal, Tort, Human Rights, Family and Evidence Law (taking a comparative approach); Children's Human Rights; and Medical Law & Ethics (including children as patients). In 2008 her book with Caroline Keenan, Child Abuse Law and Policy across Boundaries (OUP 2007), examining how allegations of child abuse are litigated in criminal, family, tort, and human rights law, and the rules of evidence governing that litigation, across 76 jurisdictions, was awarded the first Inner Temple Book Prize (2008) for the most outstanding contribution to legal scholarship and public policy, a competition open to all legal publications in English in the world in the previous four years. The OUP published an updated paperback edition in 2010, and a further complete edition, single-authored by Laura, will be published by the OUP in 2023. The new edition adds the Republic of Ireland and India as 77th and 78th jurisdictions, and a new chapter on public inquiries and historic allegations of abuse. Full biography and profile at https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/people/laura-hoyano