Catriona McMillan

Catriona (Katy) McMillan is a Reader in Medical Law and Ethics at the University of Edinburgh School of Law. 

Dr McMillan holds an LLB from the University of Glasgow, an LLM from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a PhD in Medical Law and Ethics from the University of Edinburgh. She joined the Law School in 2018 as a Senior Research Fellow, contributing to the Wellcome Trust-funded project ‘Confronting the Liminal Spaces of Health Research Regulation’. She subsequently secured a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project entitled ‘Femtech: how should law and regulation respond?’.

Her research focuses on the legal and ethical regulation of human reproduction, with particular interests in:

• Femtech, including period-tracking applications and digital contraception
• Contraception
• Assisted reproduction
• Embryo research
• Termination of pregnancy

She is the author of The Human Embryo in vitro: Breaking the Legal Stalemate (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and co-editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Health Research Regulation (Cambridge University Press, 2021). 

Dr McMillan is also Deputy Director of the JK Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Sciences and the Law. From 2021 to 2023, she served as Convenor of the Law Society of Scotland’s Health and Medical Law Sub-Committee.