Dr Rees Johnson

I am originally from Newcastle where I completed my LLB (with Environment) at Northumbria University. I then moved across to Newcastle University to undertake an Environmental law LLM. I completed my PhD at the University of Manchester where I examined the legal history of assisted dying law through the lens of Michel Foucault's concepts of (medical) power, discourse and knowledge.

My research centres on challenging assumed knowledge in the assisted dying debate, deploying critical/continental philosophy lenses to elucidate unremarked contexts.