
Daniel Sokol
Medical ethicist, clinical negligence barrister, accredited mediator, columnist for the British Medical Journal and author of books on medical ethics and law
Speaker's biography
Daniel K. Sokol is a barrister and medical ethicist known for his academic and journalistic writings on the ethics of medicine.
He lectures nationally and internationally and writes a regular column in the British Medical Journal under the sobriquet Ethics Man. Up until January 2014 Sokol was an honorary Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics and Law at King's College London. His contract was terminated due to Sokol setting up a for-profit legal enterprise that represented students in exam appeals. He is a member of 12 King's Bench Walk, a leading barristers' chambers in London, England.