Academic Profile

I studied at Glasgow and Sheffield, and held academic posts at Durham, Manchester and Nottingham Law Schools, before joining Sheffield in 2007. I enjoy integrating research with teaching and learning, and one of the things I particularly like about being a Professor is working with students on research projects (both mine and theirs).

Member of the Centre for the Study of Law in Society, Sheffield Centre for International and European Law and Sheffield Institute of Biotechnology, Law and Ethics.

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.

Teaching and Learning

I have taught in the areas in which I research for over 20 years. In modules and programmes that I have developed, students learn from the latest research, some of which is my own. For instance, EU Social Law is based around my book European Social Law and Policy (Longman, 1998) and EU Health Law is based around Hervey and McHale’s Health Law and the EU (CUP, 2004; new version due 2013).

An example of my teaching-led research came from supervising PhD and MA/LLM students. Noting that law students are often uncertain about the theory and methods that inform their research projects, I developed and delivered with colleagues a workshop for students to build their confidence in preparing their dissertations, and a module on Legal Research Methods for PhD students. From these, a successful AHRC application in 2006 led to two regional workshops and a book Research Methodologies in EU and International Law (Hart, 2011). Materials from the workshops are available in TASH.

I also integrate research with the undergraduate curriculum. For instance, I have co-authored a journal article with four first year students in my seminar group in Understanding Law. I have inspired student inquiry (leading to sole or co-authored publications) through successful applications for undergraduate summer internships since 2004. For instance, Robin Morris (Sheffield University Research Experience intern, 2010), published in European Public Law.

More recently, I have been working with a group of undergraduate students and colleagues to set up the peer-reviewed Sheffield Student Law Review.

The modules I teach are:

Undergraduate	Postgraduate and MA
European Union Law (Convenor)	Legal Research Methods (Convenor)
Current Issues in EU Law	Judicial Protection in the European Union
	EU Constitutional Law
	EU Internal Market Law
	EU Social Law (Convenor)
	EU Health Law (Convenor)

More information on my teaching

Key Publications

R Cryer, T Hervey, B Sokhi-Bulley, with A Bohm, (2011) Research Methodologies in EU and International Law Oxford: Hart Publishing.

Elias Mossialos, Govin Permanand, Rita Baeten and Tamara Hervey (eds) (2010) Health Systems Governance in Europe, the Role of EU Law and Policy. Cambridge University Press.

L Trubek, M Nance and T Hervey. (2008) 'The Construction of a Healthier Europe: Lessons from the Fight Against Cancer'. Wisconsin International Law Journal, 26, 804-43

Hervey, T., Bushby, H., and Mohr, A. (2008) 'Ethical EU Law: The influence of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies'. European Law Review, 33, 803-42

Hervey, T. (2008) The European Union's Governance of Health Care and the Welfare Modernization Agenda. Regulation and Governance, 2, 103-120

Hervey, T. and Trubek, L. (2007) Freedom to provide health care services within the EU: An opportunity for a Transformative Directive. Columbia Journal of European Law, 13(3), 623-649.

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Recent Invited Papers and Keynote Lectures

Invited keynote speaker at international conferences including:

• Invited keynote speaker at international conferences including Wellcome Trust workshop on Regulating Health Technologies, London, 12-13 May 2011;
• European Legal Method: Paradoxes and Revitalisation Copenhagen Business School 19 November 2010;
• Bacteria without Borders: The Europeanization of Communicable Disease Control, European Union Center, University of Michigan, 7-8 May 2010;
• New Governance and the Transformation of Law, sponsored by The University of Wisconsin Law School, The University of Wisconsin-Madison European Union Center of Excellence & The Centre for Law and Governance in Europe at University College London, 20-21 November 2009

Key Projects/Grants

Projects

European Union Health Law
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 and policy-makers in the UK, on continental Europe and in the USA, from disciplines including law, health policy, sociology and political science.

I am also working (with Mark Flear, Queen’s University Belfast, Therese Murphy (Nottingham) and Anne-Maree Farrell (Manchester)) on an ESRC-funded project on European law and new health technologies.

Grants

Title/Description:	European Law and New Health Technologies
Awarding Body:	ESRC Seminar Series
People Involved:	PI: Dr Mark Flear, Queen´s University Belfast; Co-Is A-M Farrell, Manchester and Prof T Murphy, Manchester
Years Funded for:	2009-2011
Amount:	£18,517.53

Title/Description:	'Author meets readers' Symposium with Professor Roger Brownsword: Super-stewardship in the Context of Public Health
Awarding Body:	University Association for Contemporary European Studies
People Involved:	PI: Dr Mark Flear, Queen´s University Belfast; Co-Is A-M Farrell, Manchester and Prof T Murphy, Manchester
Years Funded for:	2009
Amount:	£500

Professional Activities and Recognition

• University of Sheffield Senate Award for sustained excellence in learning and teaching 2011
• Member of Editorial Board of Journal of European Social Security 2011-
• Member of Advisory Editorial Board of Health Economics, Policy and Law 2005-
• Member of Arts and Humanities Research Council´s Peer Review College 2004-

Areas of Research Supervision

• European Union Law
• Health Law and policy in trans-national contexts
• Discrimination Law and social rights