- Germain, S. and Yong, A. (2020). COVID-19 Highlighting Inequalities in Access to Healthcare in England: A Case Study of Ethnic Minority and Migrant Women. Feminist Legal Studies, 28(3), pp. 301–310. doi:10.1007/s10691-020-09437-z.
- Germain, S. (2020). Will COVID-19 mark the end of an egalitarian NHS? European Journal of Risk Regulation pp. 1–10. doi:10.1017/err.2020.33.
- Denis, J.-.L., Veronesi, G., Régis, C. and Germain, S. (2019). Collegiality as political work: Professions in today’s world of organizations. Journal of Professions and Organization. doi:10.1093/jpo/joz016.
- Germain, S. (2014). Prison-based Education and Its New Pedagogical Perspective. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 25(2), pp. 196–209. doi:10.1080/10511253.2014.882962.
- Germain, S. (2013). Taking ‘Health’ as a Socio-Economic Right Seriously: Is the South African Constitutional Dialogue a Remedy for the American Healthcare System? African Journal of International and Comparative Law, 21(2), pp. 145–171. doi:10.3366/ajicl.2013.0057.
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About
Overview
Dr Sabrina Germain is a Senior Lecturer at the City Law School. She is the co-coordinator of the Centre for Law & Social Change and a member of City University’s Centre for Healthcare Innovation Research (CHIR). She is also the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Conference co-convenor of the Health Law section and a trustee on the Socio-Legal Studies Association's (SLSA) board.
Dr Germain’s research interests are in the field of healthcare law and policy and bioethics. She focuses on questions of distributive justice (resource allocation and access to healthcare services) and the role of medical professionals in the healthcare law making process.
Her monograph Justice and Profit in Health Care Law (Hart, 2019) is a comparative study that puts forward the influence of justice principles and for-profit actors (the medical profession, employers and insurers) on the development of laws to allocate healthcare resources in western welfare states.
Her current research projects include a study on 1) the role of medical professionals in shaping healthcare law during COVID-19 in England, 2) a comparative project on the role of the medical profession in Canadian and British healthcare reforms, 3) an analysis of inequalities in access to healthcare for ethnic minorities and migrant women during the COVID-19 pandemic with Dr Adrienne Yong (City), and 4) an impact project on the access and implementation of reproductive rights in Nepal with Emily Allbon (City) and Dr Mara Malagodi (CUHK).
Dr Germain has recently been called on to comment on the emergency measures put in place to preserve the NHS during the first peak of COVID-19 infections in the UK. On several occasions she has also contributed to specialised articles in Al Jazeera (English), The Times (London), The Conversation (UK) and has been interviewed live on TRT world news.
At City, she convenes the medical law and bioethics module and teaches tort law. In 2019, Oxford University Press awarded her the Law Teacher of the Year Prize. Dr Germain is also the GE LLB Programme Director, a member of the Race and Equality Charter Group and a member of the Gender Equality Working Group.
Prior to City, Dr Germain was a lecturer in Law and Public Policy at the University of Surrey and held visiting scholarships at the University of Cambridge, University of Cape Town and Brooklyn Law School. Dr Germain is admitted to the practice of law in the State of New York and has worked as a transactional lawyer in an international law firm.
Qualifications
- JSD, Cornell University, United States
- LL.M., Cornell University, United States
- DESS Master in Economic Law and Market Regulation, Sciences Po, France
- Bachelor of Arts, McGill University, Canada
- Fellowship, Higher Education Academy
- New York Bar, New York State Bar, United States
Employment
- Senior Lecturer, City University London, Aug 2019 – present
- Lecturer, City University London, London, Aug 2017 – Jul 2019
- Lecturer, University of Surrey, Guildford, Jan 2016 – Aug 2017
- Visiting Scholar and Guest Lecturer, Brooklyn Law School, Oct 2014 – Feb 2015
- Visiting Researcher, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Jan 2012 – Sep 2014
- Visiting Scholar, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Oct – Dec 2011
Award
- Oxford University Press (2019) Law Teacher of the Year
Languages
French (can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review).
Expertise
Geographic Areas
- Americas - North
- Europe
Research
Health care resources allocation; Comparative law and public policy; Public health care law
Publications
Publications by category
Books (2)
- Germain, S., Denis, J.-.L., Régis, C. and Veronesi, G. (2022). Medical Doctors in Health Care Reforms. Bristol: Policy Press.
- Germain, S. (2019). Justice and Profit in Health Care Law: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and the United Kingdom. Hart Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5099-0270-5.
Chapters (3)
- Germain, S. (2019). Will There Be Justice In Health Care Post-Brexit? In Fahey, E. and Ahmed, T. (Eds.), On Brexit: Law, Justices and Injustices Edward Elgar.
- Germain, S. (2018). Health Law Outside its Traditional Frontiers: “Trading” Medical Tourism for Just Health Care in the Post-Brexit Context. In Khoury, L., Regis, C. and Kouri, R. (Eds.), Health Law at the Frontiers (pp. 309–340). Yvon Blais, Thomson Reuters. ISBN 978-2-89730-436-2.
- Germain, (2016). For a new and more diverse comparative legal education. In Van Klink, B. and De Vries, U. (Eds.), Academic Learning in Law: Theoretical Positions, Teaching Experiments and Learning Experiences (pp. 180–197). Cheltenham: Edwar Elgar. ISBN 978-1-78471-488-8.
Internet publications (5)
- Germain, S. and Yong, A. (2020). Coronavirus shows how hard it is for ethnic minority and migrant women to access healthcare. The Conversation UK.
- Germain, S. (2020). How coronavirus is threatening the equal access principle at the core of the NHS. The Conversation.
- Germain, S. (2018). The NHS at 70 needs saving, will the EU help?
- Germain, S. (2016). Health Care: the Undebated Issue of the 2016 American Presidential Elections.
- Germain, S. (2016). Brexit: Is an exit from the EU a solution for health issues in the UK?
Journal articles (5)
Working papers (2)
- Germain, S. and Yong, A. (2020). COVID-19 highlighting inequalities in access to healthcare in England: a case study of ethnic minority and migrant women. London, UK: City Law School, City, University of London.
- Germain, S. (2020). Will COVID-19 Mark the End of an Egalitarian National Health Service? London, UK: City Law School, City, University of London.
Professional activities
Events/conferences (15)
- SLSA Conference 2021. (Conference) Online (2021). Invited speaker.
Paper: The Role of Medical Professionals in Shaping Healthcare Law and Policy in England during COVID-19
Author: Germain, S. - Institute for Government and AHRC: Arts and Humanities Research in the COVID-19 Pandemic. (Public lecture) Online (2021). Panel Member. Invited speaker.
Paper: The Impact of COVID-19 on an ECR's Research in Law
Author: Germain, S. - Centre for Law & Social Change. (Seminar) Online (2021). Panel Member. Invited speaker.
Paper: Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility among India’s Professional Elite - Gendered Pandemic. (Conference) Online (2021). Panel Member. Invited speaker.
Paper: Ethnic Minority and Migrant Women in England: Struggles in Access to Healthcare During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author: Germain, S.
Co-authors: Yong, A. - IALS Director's Seminar Series Law and Humanities in a Pandemic: Life, Death and Health During the Pandemic. (Seminar) Online (2020). Panel Member. Invited speaker.
Paper: The Role of Medical Professionals in Shaping Healthcare Law During COVID-19
Author: Germain, S. - Justice, Injustice and Brexit. (Conference) London, United Kingdom (2018). Panel Member. Invited speaker.
Paper: Will There Be Justice in Healthcare Post-Brexit
Author: Germain, S. - McGill University and University of Montreal Health Law Seminars. (Conference) Montreal, Canada (2017). Panel Member. Invited speaker.
Paper: Trading Medical Tourism for Just Health Care
Author: Germain, S. - University of Bristol Democracy Beyond Election. (Conference) (2017). Panel Member. Invited speaker.
Paper: The Participation of 'For-Profit' Actors in the Elaboration of Just Healthcare Laws
Author: Germain, S. - Transnational and Global Public Health. (Public lecture) Brooklyn Law School, New York USA (2014). Invited speaker.
Author: Germain, S. - Brooklyn Law School Fellow and Staff Seminar. (Seminar) Brooklyn, USA (2014). Invited speaker.
Paper: Career in Legal Academia
Author: Germain, S. - Social Justice in the Next Century. (Conference) London School of Economics, London UK (2014). Panel Member. Invited speaker.
Paper: Just Allocation of Healthcare Resources
Author: Germain, S. - Centre for Medical Law and Ethics Seminar. (Seminar) King's College London, UK (2014). Invited speaker.
Paper: Taking Healthcare Seriously
Author: Germain, S. - Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law Conference. (Conference) Cambridge, UK (2013). Panel Member. Invited speaker.
Paper: Teaching Legal Traditions in an Untraditional Environment: Notes of an Instructor on the Teaching of Comparative Law in a Maximal Security Prison
Author: Germain, S. - Law and Boundaries. (Conference) Sciences Po Paris, France (2012). Panel Member. Invited speaker.
Paper: Is the South African Constitutional Dialogue a Remedy for the American Health Care System?
Author: Germain, S. - Yale Law School Doctoral Scholarship Conference. (Conference) New Haven, USA (2011). Panel Member.
Paper: Chronic Diseases and the Law: Just Distribution of Health Resources for Chronically Ill Employees
Author: Germain, S.
Media appearances (2)
- TRT World News- The Impact of COVID-19 on the NHS workforce and available healthcare resources.
- TRT World News- COVID-19 may spell the end of an egalitarian NHS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0BIqJWEVqo&feature=youtu.be
Online articles (4)
- ‘Life and death’: Barriers to healthcare for ethnic minorities. (2021). Al Jazeera Quoted directly
- The dangers of focussing solely on COVID. (2020). The Times Quoted directly
- COVID must not derail cancer diagnoses. (2021). The Times Quoted directly
- UK PM Johnson's Health Care Reform Plan Comes as COVID Exposes Shortcomings of NHS, Academic Says. (2021). Sputnik News Quoted directly
Other (7)
- Trustee, SLSA (Apr 2021 – present).
- Co-convenor of the Health Law Section, SLS (Jan 2021 – present).
- Co-coordinator, Centre for Law & Social Change (2021 – present).
- Member, Centre for Healthcare Research Innovation (CHIR) (Jan 2019 – present).
- Research Associate, Health Hub: Politics, Organisations and Law (H-POD) (2018 – present).
- Member, Central London NHS Ethics Committee (Sep 2017 – Jan 2020).
- Research Associate, Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Culture in Health Law and Policy (Jan 2016 – present).