Dr. Ryan Meade

Biography

Ryan Meade is a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, focusing his research on legal philosophy and jurisprudence, administrative law, medical law, and legal history. His sub-specialties include clinical research regulatory matters, bioethics, comparative health systems policy, and the role of compliance and ethics programs in corporations. Ryan is affiliated with the Aquinas Institute at Blackfriars and is a visiting fellow at the Anscombe Bioethics Centre. He teaches Roman Law and has a keen interest in the connections between medieval and contemporary law. Over the past 20 years, he taught at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where he offered courses in various topics related to medical law, administrative law, and regulatory compliance. He was a faculty member of Loyola’s Beazley Institute for Health Law & Policy and served as the founding director of Loyola’s Center for Compliance Studies, where he also held the position of Editor-in-Chief of the Loyola Journal of Regulatory Compliance. His previous experience includes serving as Assistant Professor at the College of Health Sciences at Rush University in Chicago. Ryan has practiced law at various global law firms and established a small firm specializing in medical law with a focus on regulatory compliance, particularly for health care organizations. His current projects involve comparative studies on administrative law theories and regulation for the common good, rooted in his interests in English medieval law and Roman law. He is also the Convener of Oxford's Common Good Project.

Research Interests