Annelize McKay is head of Law at the University of Abertay in Dundee. She teaches Medical Law and Bioethics as well as Public International Law at under- and postgraduate levels.
Annelize holds the following academic qualifications: BA(Hons) (English Literature & Literary Theory); LLB; LLM; Diploma in Datametrics; and a PhD. In 2003 she was awarded a scholarship by the USA National Institutes of Health to visit Yale University’s School of Medicine in the USA, where she enrolled for courses in bioethics, virology and epidemiology and conducted research towards her doctoral thesis.
She previously practiced as an advocate and is a member of the Centre for Human Rights, a South African-based NGO.
She is the author and co-author (under her maiden name) of over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on international human rights law, research law and bioethics. She co-authored two student textbooks. She has delivered conference papers and keynote addresses at more than 30 national and international conferences. She is a member of the International Association of Bioethics and a member of the International Law Association.
Annelize McKay is a Deputy-chairperson of the Research Ethics Committee at a South African university’s medical faculty where she applies her theoretical knowledge of research law and ethics, thereby supporting ethical and legal clinical research at hospitals affiliated to the university. Annelize is gives regular advice to a fertility clinic on ethical issues related to the clinic’s work.
Annelize McKay is an editor of the African Human Rights Law Journal and an assistant editor of the Journal for Contemporary Roman Dutch Law.