Daniel is a senior lecturer in health care law at the Faculty of Laws. He has been a member of the Department of Media, Communications and Technology Law since 2012, making him one of the first resident academics in this Department, which he represents on Faculty Board. He has coordinated and/or delivered lectures across 6 different Faculties on study-units broadly addressing European health care law, human rights in the context of health care, medical law, mental health law, bioethics, policy and law, introduction to law, tort law, and the law of obligations. Daniel is also the coordinator of the "Medicine and the Law programme".
Daniel has moreover tutored European Health Law and Policy at postgraduate level at the University of Edinburgh since 2012. He is also the National Contact Point of Malta at the European Association of Health Law. Daniel is licensed to practice law as an advocate in Malta and he has furthermore served in Malta’s diplomatic corps, posted to Tunisia as deputy ambassador and consul of Malta.
Daniel graduated Bachelor of Arts (B.A) in Legal and Humanistic Studies at the University of Malta, where he was also admitted to the degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D) after defending a thesis entitled “The domestic application of customary international law: a practical and comparative analysis”. As a Chevening scholar at the University of Edinburgh, he was awarded the degree of Master of Laws (LL.M) in International Law. With the support of a Wellcome Trust studentship in Bioethics and Biolaw, Daniel was also admitted to the degree of Master of Arts (M.A) in Healthcare Ethics and Law at the University of Manchester. Supported in part by the Malta Government Scholarship Scheme, Daniel was furthermore awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in Bioethics and Medical Jurisprudence by the University of Manchester, after defending his thesis "Advance directives in healthcare: measures that support persons in exercising their legal capacity?"
