Tort Law

Kirsty Horsey is a Reader in Law at the University of Kent, and has taught tort law to undergraduate students across all years for over 20 years. Her research interests lie in the overlap of medical, family and tort law. She has written widely on the regulation of assisted reproduction and in particular surrogacy, was Senior Research Associate at London Women's Clinic from September 2021 - August 2023, and is the editor of a number of related edited collections including, most recently, Revisiting the Regulation of Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Routledge, 2015)). She is co-author (with Erika Rackley) of Casebook on Tort Law (17th edn, OUP, 2023). She tweets at @khorsey.

Erika Rackley is a Professor in the Law School at the University of Kent. Her research and teaching interests span torts, judicial studies, law and gender, criminal law and legal history. She has written extensively on these topics. Her research has shaped and informed policy and public debate and has been discussed by the UK and Scottish governments, in The Guardian, and on BBC Radio 4's Women's Hour and Law in Action.