{"id":698,"date":"2024-01-09T14:55:34","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T13:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psy-law.org\/?page_id=698"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:14:15","slug":"convenors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.psy-law.org\/en\/convenors\/","title":{"rendered":"Convenors"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"698\" class=\"elementor elementor-698\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-798d1ea e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"798d1ea\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1f377ba elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"1f377ba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div 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He has special interest in the regulation of biomedical technologies and psychoactive substances. He (co)authored several books, including <em>Minds, Freedoms and\u00a0Rights<\/em> (Cambridge University Press 2025) and <em>Coercive Brain-Reading in Criminal Justice<\/em> (Cambridge University Press 2022)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b0326ba elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b0326ba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Muireann Quigley<\/strong> is Professor of Law, Medicine, and Technology at the University of Birmingham, where she leads the <em>Psychedelics: Law, Ethics, and Society<\/em> (PsychLES) cluster. 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