Weait, M. (2007) 'Sado-masochism and the law' in Langdridge, D. and Barker, M. (eds) Safe, Sane and Consensual, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Weait, M. (2007) 'On Being Responsible' pp 19-50 in Munro, V. and Stychin, C.F. (eds) Law and Sexuality: Feminist Engagements Abingdon: Routledge-Cavendish

Bernard, E., Geretti, A-M, van Damme, A., Azad, Y. and Weait, M. (2007) HIV forensics: pitfalls and acceptable standards in the use of phylogenetic analysis as evidence in criminal linvestigations of HIV transmission HIV Medicine, 8, 382–387.

Weait, M. and Azad, Y. (2005) 'The Criminalization of HIV Transmission in England and Wales: Questions of Law and Policy' HIV/AIDS Policy and Law Review, 10(2): 1-12

Weait, M. (2005) 'Knowledge, Autonomy and Consent: R v Konzani' Criminal Law Review, October: 763-772.

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Weait, M. (2005) 'Harm, Consent and the Limits of Privacy' Feminist Legal Studies, 13: 97-122

Weait, M. (2005) 'Criminal Law and the Sexual Transmission of HIV: R v Dica' Modern Law Review 68(1): 121-134

Lester, A. and Weait, M. (2003) 'The Use of Ministerial Powers without Parliamentary Authority: the Ram Doctrine' Public Law, Autumn: 415-428

Weait, M. (2001) 'Taking the Blame: Criminal Law, Social Responsibility and the Sexual Transmission of HIV' Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 23(1): 441-457

The Letter of the Law? An An Enquiry into Reasoning and Formal Enforcement in the Industrial Air Pollution Inspectorate

British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 57-70, 1989

Swans Reflecting Elephants: Imagery and the Law

"Recent Developments in Monitoring, Investigation and Enforcement"

Journal of Asset Protection and Financial Crime (1994) Vol. 2, No. 1 pp 77-83

"Interview with George Staple, Director of the Serious Fraud Office" Journal of Asset Protection and Financial Crime (1993) Vol. 1, No. 2 pp 177-185

Journal of Asset Protection and Financial Crime (1993) Vol. 1, No. 2 pp 177-185

"Icing on the Cake: The Contribution of the Compliance Function to Effective Financial Services Regulation"

Journal of Asset Protection and Financial Crime (1993) Vol. 1, No. 1 pp 83-90

"The Serious Fraud Office: Nightmares (and Pipe-Dreams) on Elm Street"

pp. 83-107 in I. Loveland (ed.) (1995) Frontiers of Criminality London: Sweet and Maxwell.

"Fleshing it Out"

pp. 160-175 in Bentley, L. and L. Flynn (eds.) (1996) Law and the Senses London: Pluto Press.

"Problems of Generating and Sustaining Compliance with Law in Complex Organizations"

pp. 69-90 in Sciulli, D. (ed.) (1997) Normative Social Action: Cross-National and Historical Approaches Greenwich CT: JAI Press.

Imagining Ivy Williams

This is an essay I submitted as part of MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck.  It is an imaginative piece for the Life Writing course about Ivy Williams - the first woman to teach law in an English University, and the first woman to be called to the Bar of England and Wales.

Sexually Charged: the Views of Gay and Bisexual men on Criminal Prosecution for Sexual HIV Transmission

Dodds, C., Weaterburn, P., Bourne, A., Hammond, G., Weait, M., Hickson, F., Reid, D., Jessup, K.

The rise in prosecutions in the UK is part of a global trend to turn to the criminal law as a solution to the public health challenge of HIV. However, there is also a growing consensus among experts in law and HIV prevention that criminal prosecutions of reckless transmission do not contribute
to HIV prevention and may in fact impede it (see Adam et al. 2008, Burris et al. 2008, UNAIDS 2008, Wainberg 2008, Pearshouse 2008, Weait 2007, Burris et al. 2007, Anderson et al. 2006, Lowbury & Kinghorn 2006, World Health Organisation 2006, Dodds et al. 2005, Elliott 2002). It is argued that prosecutions increase stigma, dissuade people from HIV testing and increase expectations that people with diagnosed HIV will disclose their infection to all sexual partners (and conversely that non-disclosure equals HIV negative, a deeply problematic assumption with widespread
undiagnosed infection). South African Supreme Court Justice Edwin Cameron argues:
Criminalisation assumes the worst about people with HIV. And in doing so, it punishes their vulnerability. The human rights approach assumes the best about people with HIV and it
supports empowerment. The prevention of HIV is not just a technical challenge for public health. It is a challenge to all humanity to create a world in which behaving safely is truly
feasible, in which it is safe for both sexual partners, and in which it is genuinely rewarding. (Cameron 2008)
Our research concerns one part of the interface between criminal prosecution for sexual HIV transmission and wider HIV prevention goals, the perceptions and understandings of gay and bisexual men.

Criminal Liability for Sexually Transmitted Infections

Criminal Law and Justice Weekly, Vol. 173, pp. 45-47

This is a short piece aimed at criminal justice professionals and magistrates.  It focuses on the Crown Prosecution Service guidelines and their implications.

As Red As

This is from Asylum 1928 - Winners of the 2001 Fish Short Story Competition

Liminality in the Children’s Literature of J.M.Barrie and Kenneth Grahame

In this essay I explore the idea of liminality in Edwardian children's literature, with particular reference to the fiction of J.M. Barrie and Kenneth Grahame.

Admissibility of Expert Evidence (Phylogenetics)

With help from Edwin Bernard and Robert James

This is a brief response to Law Commission Consultation Paper 190 on expert evidence.  It focuses on issues arising from reliance on, and the use of, phylogenetic evidence in cases involving the alleged transmission of HIV and other viral STIs.
There is an appendix, taken from Intimacy and Responsibility: the Criminalisation of HIV Transmission (Routledge-Cavendish, 2007).

Decent Care: Living Values, Health Justice and Human Flourishing

J. Todd Ferguson, Ted Karpf, Matthew Weait, and Robin Swift (WHO / Ford Foundation, 2009)

Bibliography for Decent Care Paper

J. Todd Ferguson, Ted Karpf, Matthew Weait, and Robin Swift (WHO / Ford Foundation, 2009)