Dr Kenneth Veitch
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Associate Professor of Medical Law
Director of Reading Law School’s Law, Justice and Society Research Group
Areas of interest
Kenneth works in medical/healthcare law. He is the author of The Jurisdiction of Medical Law and has published on a range of topics in the area, including contract and the outsourcing of publicly funded healthcare, obligation and the changing nature of the NHS, and medical law/healthcare law and neoliberalism. He is interested in the relationship between medical/healthcare law and questions of power, and is currently researching the links between law, politics and the award of ‘COVID Contracts’ during the pandemic; the theme of obligation in medical/healthcare law; and the relations between law and the political economy of health and healthcare. His research draws on work in and social, legal and political theory.
Kenneth has also undertaken individual and collaborative research on the welfare state, including his co-edited book Social Rights in the Welfare State: Origins and Transformations (with Professor Toomas Kotkas of the University of Helsinki).
Kenneth is willing to supervise doctoral students whose proposals fall within his areas of research interest in medical/healthcare law.
Teaching
2025-26
- Medical Law (LLB) (Module Convenor)
Background
Kenneth holds degrees from the Universities of Aberdeen (LLB), Glasgow (LLM in Medical Law & Ethics), Cardiff (PhD in Medical Law), and Edinburgh (DipLP – Diploma in Legal Practice). He also holds a PGCertHE (University of Sussex).
Before joining Reading, Kenneth worked at Sussex Law School, University of Sussex. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, and prior to entering academia, he qualified as a solicitor in Scotland and subsequently worked in the clinical negligence department of a law firm.