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30 Med. L. Rev. 1 (2022)

handle is hein.journals/medlr30 and id is 1 raw text is: Medical Law Review, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 1-3 https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwab049 Guest Editorial ANDREW GRUBBI AND IAN KENNEDY' 'Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber), Newport, Wales. 2Emeritus Professor of Health Law, Ethics and Policy, University College, London, England. Happy 30th birthday to the Medical Law Review. As the proud parents we have watched the journal prosper as we faded into the background. It has been so satisfying to see it go from strength to strength. In the beginning we were delighted to be welcomed as the 'new kid on the block'. We were so grateful for the opportunity to put medical law on the legal map. We aimed the journal at all-comers, but in particular academics and students, together with judges and practitioners, whom we hoped would be interested as medical law cases proliferated. It was hard going at first. We have not forgotten what the early days were like. Writing case notes was probably the hardest part; each of us having to compose anything up to half a dozen notes for each edition, most of them navigating new territory and tracing the link between the past - usually non-medical law cases - and the future - where medical law might be headed. It meant making time at the end of the day (and often long into the night) trying to get our heads round often ground-breaking decisions, conscious that through our notes we would be offering a first draft of history. It was a labour of love, but it was hard labour nonetheless. The Medical Law Review gradually began to take off. We no longer had to solicit articles. Young scholars drawn to medical law enthusiastically kept us supplied with articles, notes, and book reviews. It was immensely rewarding to see a subject still in its infancy and barely recognised at the more conservative high tables, shoulder its way onto the stage. Yes, its exact substructure and architecture may not fit into the existing taxonomy of the law as dictated by the standard text, but it addressed an im- portant area of human interaction and called for hard intellectual graft. Was it an as- pect of human rights law, a hodge-podge of criminal law and tort with a few other bits of law thrown in, an illegitimate child of public and private law, or a subject in its own right, albeit of uncertain parentage? In establishing the Medical Law Review, we decided to let the reader enjoy what medical law had to offer and not worry too much about its conceptual birth right. And we were right. There was so much to say; so many connections to make between areas of law previously thought to be entirely distinct; so many opportunities to move © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press; All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissionspoup.com .1