Dr Samantha Schnobel

Dr Samantha Schnobel

Birmingham Law School
Associate Professor in Tort Law
Deputy Head of Education

Contact details

Telephone
0121 414 2099
Fax
0121 414 3585
Email
s.schnobel@bham.ac.uk
Address
Birmingham Law School
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Samantha’s primary teaching and research interests lie in the fields of tort and professional ethics, specifically those areas which bear upon the construction of human and nonhuman health-related negligence claims.

In the past, Samantha has written on professional duties and standards of care, and has consulted on the creation of professional guidance and competency standards for various national and international regulators.

Qualifications

  • BA cum laude in History (Concentrations in Classical and Renaissance History) and Ethics, University of Northern Iowa
  • LLB (Hon.) (University 麻豆精选)
  • Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • PhD (University 麻豆精选)

Biography

Samantha joined Birmingham Law School as a Lecturer in September 2017. Whilst completing her thesis (entitled, 鈥楶rioritising the Best Interests of the Animal and Re-Framing Veterinary Negligence鈥�), she also worked as a Visiting Lecturer at King鈥檚 College London and a Postgraduate Teaching Associate at Birmingham Law School.

Samantha graduated from Birmingham Law School with an Honours LLB in 2011 and returned to Canada where she worked in a Toronto law firm as a legal researcher, contributing quarterly updates and written additions to the text 鈥淒amages for Breach of Contract鈥� by Harvin D. Pitch and Ronald M. Snyder.

Teaching

  • Tort (Module Lead)
  • Legal Issues in Health Care
  • Advanced Property
  • Advanced Tort
  • Land

Research

Samantha鈥檚 research interests lie in the fields of professional negligence and ethics, specifically in the areas of human and nonhuman medicine.聽 Her research focuses on the legal and ethical considerations pertaining to the duty of care in human and non-human health-related negligence claims.聽 聽 聽

Other activities

Deputy Director of Education (Specialised Programmes and LLB Graduates)

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Schnobel, S 2021, '', Medical Law Review, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 373-383.

Schnobel, S 2017, '', Professional Negligence, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 239-261. <>

Chapter

Schnobel, S & Skillen, J 2024, . in AJ Bell & J McCunn (eds), Uncertainty in Comparative Law and Legal History : Known Unknowns. 1st edn, Transforming Legal Histories, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, pp. 128-152.