Rate My Professor Emilie Cloatre

Professor Emilie Cloatre is Professor of Medical Law in the Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s College London. A socio-legal scholar, her main research interests lie in the intersection between law and medicine, exploring how law and health knowledges shape each other and law's impact in furthering, perpetuating, or challenging health inequalities. She has studied these dynamics in areas including access to healthcare, pharmaceutical flows and medicine amid global inequalities, and the regulation of alternative and traditional medicine. Her approach draws on Science and Technology Studies, socio-legal studies, and legal anthropology, informed by qualitative research across diverse socio-cultural settings. Her work has been funded by the Wellcome Trust, AHRC, and ESRC. She currently leads a £5 million Wellcome Discovery Award project titled “Between Deception and Dissent: Regulating Unproven, Disproven and Misleading Health-Related Claims” (2025-2031). This collaborative effort critically examines how contested health-related claims are regulated in contemporary states across Europe (France, Greece, Ireland, UK), West Africa (Ghana, Senegal), and North America (Mexico, Canada); assesses socio-political implications; and proposes alternative legal models, while building interdisciplinary capacity at the crossroads of law and health social sciences and humanities.