Daniel is a 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 coordinates and/or delivers lectures on the following study-units: MCT1004 "Mental Health Law", MCT1005 "Introduction to Law" (in 2020-2022), MCT1006 "Introduction to Law/Prolegomena" (in 2020-2022), MCT2001 "Medical Jurisprudence", MCT4001 "European Health Care Law", MCT5001 "Human Rights and Medical Ethics", MCT5013 "Ethics, Law and Compliance in Digital Health", MRT5721 "Bioethics, Law and Policy", and PBL5041 "Dignity in Health Care, Ethics, Morality and Human Rights". 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?"
Medical law
Mental health law
Health care law
Capacity law
Advance decision making
BIANCHI, D., 2020. Advance directives: Addressing the obligations of support as part of the right of a person with disabilities to equal recognition before the law? International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 70, pp. Article 101561.
BIANCHI, D., 2020. European Association of Health Law, Covid-19 legislative survey – Malta. European Association of Health Law Newsletter, (2), pp. 27.
BIANCHI, D., 2020. European Association of Health Law, Covid-19 legislative survey, second edition: Malta. European Association of Health Law Newsletter, 3, pp. 56.
BIANCHI, D., 2011. The adoption of embryos in Malta: Acting in the interest and welfare of a child in embryonic form? Medical Law Review, 19(3), pp. 401.
BIANCHI, D., 2011. Termination of pregnancy: Does the criminal law protect the unborn child? Law & Practice, 24, pp. 25.
