Staff profile

Deryck Beyleveld, BSc.Hons (Rand), MA (Cantab),.PhD, FSB, Professor of Law and Bioethics. His numerous publications span Criminology, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Moral and Legal Philosophy, and many areas of law. He has a special interest in the regulation and ethics of Biotechnology and Medical Science, and founded the Sheffield Institute of Biotechnological Law and Ethics (SIBLE) in 1994, which he directed until his appointment at Durham University in 2006. He is an exponent of the moral theory of the American philosopher, Alan Gewirth, and much of his work involves application of this theory in the critical analysis of law. He is the author of A Bibliography on General Deterrence Research (Saxon House 1980) and The Dialectical Necessity of Morality (Chicago University Press 1991); co-author (with Roger Brownsword) of Law as a Moral Judgment (Sweet and Maxell 1986 and Sheffield Academic Press 1994), Mice Morality and Patents (Common Law Institute of Intellectual Property 1993), Human Dignity in Bioethics and Biolaw (OUP 2001), and Consent in the Law (Hart 2007); and co-author with a group of lawyers, scientists, clinicians, and philosophers of Embryo Research in Pluralistic Europe (Springer 2003). He has participated in many EC funded projects, and he co-ordinated an EC funded Concerted Action PRIVIREAL on the Implementation of the Data Protection Directive in Relation to Medical Research and the Role of Research Ethics Committees from 2002-2005. He holds the Visiting Chair in Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics at the University of Utrecht, which occupies 20% of his time. He was Vice-Chair of South Sheffield Local Research Ethics Committee from 1992-1998 and Vice-Chair of Trent Multi-Centre Research Ethics Committee from 1997-2005. He is on the Advisory Board of the Polish Jurisprudence Journal Ius et Lex, of Medical Law International, and Medicine and Law (the journal of the World Association of Medical Law), and the Editorial Committee of Law, Innovation and Technology.

Teaching Areas

Philosophy of Law
Law and Medicine

• Moral Philosophy (Pure and Applied) (especially, Gewirth and Kant)
• Legal Philosophy
• Regulation of Medical Research
• Privacy and Data Protection in Medical Law
• Morality in Patent Law
• The Regulation and Ethics of Biotechnology
• Precautionary reasoning in legal thinking

• Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences
• Durham Centre for Law and Philosophy
• Durham Centre for Law and Philosophy
• Durham European Law Institute
• Human Rights Centre

• Grants

• 2007: INTEGRATED BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS(£65508.14 from European Commission)

Authored book

• Beyleveld, Deryck & Düwell, Marcus (2020). The Sole Fact of Pure Reason: Kant’s Quasi-Ontological Argument for the Categorical Imperative. De Gruyter.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Brownsword, Roger. (2007). Consent in the Law. Oxford: Hart Publishing.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & (& D. Solter et al) (2003). Embryo Research in Pluralistic Europe. Berlin.: Springer.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Brownsword, Roger. (2001). Human Dignity in Bioethics and Biolaw. Oxford.: Oxford University Press.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (1993). Mice, Morality, and Patents: The Onco-mouse Application and Article 53(a) of the European Patent Convention. London: Intellectual Property Institute.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (1991). The Dialectical Necessity of Morality: An Analysis and Defence of Alan Gewirth's Argument to the Principle of Generic Consistency. Chicago.: University of Chicago Press.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Brownsword, Roger. (1986). Law as a Moral Judgment. London.: Sweet and Maxwell.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (1980). A Bibliography on General Deterrence Research. Saxon House.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (1978). The Effectiveness of General Deterrents Against Crime: An Annotated Bibliography of Evaluative Research. University of Cambridge, Institute of Criminology.: University of Cambridge.

Chapter in book

• Adcock, Mike & Beyleveld, Deryck (2022). Morality and Intellectual Property Law Through the Lens of Human Rights. In Boundaries of Information Property. Godt, Christine Van Overwalle, Geertrui, Guibault, Lucie & Beyleveld, Deryck Cambridge: Intersentia. 4: 121-147.
• Beyleveld, Deryck & Brownsword, Roger (2020). Is There Really Anything Wrong With an Absolute Principle? In Modern German Non-Positivism – From Radbruch to Alexy. Borowski, Martin Mohr Siebeck. 279-292.
• Beyleveld, Deryck (2017). Sheffield Natural Law School. In Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Sellers, M. & Kirste, P. Dordrecht: Springer. 1-8.
• Beyleveld, Deryck (2017). What Is Gewirth and What IS Beyleveld? A Retrospect with Comments on the Contributions. In Ethical Rationalism and the Law. Capps, Patrick & Pattinson, Shaun D. Oxford: Hart Publishing. 233-255.
• Beyleveld, Deryck (2017). Transcendental Arguments for a Categorical Imperative as Arguments from Agential Self-Understanding. In Transcendental Arguments in Moral Theory. Brune, Jens Peter Stern, Robert & Werner, Micha H Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. 141-159.
• Beyleveld, Deryck (2016). Gewirth versus Kant on Kant’s Maxim of Reason: Towards a Gewirthian Philosophical Anthropology. In Gewirthian Perspectives on Human Rights. Bauhn, P. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. 13-29.
• Beyleveld, Deryck (2016). The duties we have to future generations: a Gewirthian approach. In Human Rights and Sustainability: Moral responsibilities for the future. Bos, Gerhard & Düwell, Marcus Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. 137-150.
• Beyleveld, Deryck & Brownsword, Roger (2015). Research Participants and the Right to be Informed. In Inspiring a Medico-Legal Revolution: Essays in Honour of Sheila McLean. Ferguson, Pamela R & Laurie, Graeme T London: Routledge. 173-188.
• Beyleveld, Deryck (2015). Making sense of human dignity. In From reason to practice in bioethics: An anthology dedicated to the works of John Harris. Coggon, John, Chan, Sarah Holm, Søren & Kushner, Thomasine Manchester University Press.
• Beyleveld, D. (2012). Hope and Belief. In Philosophy of Mind. Jenkins, R.J. & Sullivan, E. New York: Nova Science Publishers Inc. 1-36.
• Beyleveld, Deryck (2011). Privacy, Confidentiality and Data Protection. In The SAGE Handbook of Health Care Ethics: Core and Emerging Issues. Chadwick, Ruth, Have, Henk ten & Meslin, Eric M. SAGE.
• Pattinson, Shaun D. & Beyleveld, Deryck (2010). Confidentiality and Data Protection. In Principles of Medical Law. Grubb, Andrew, Laing, Judith & McHale, Jean Oxford: Oxford University Press. 651-723.
• Beyleveld, D., Finnegan, T. & Pattinson, Shaun D. (2009). The Regulation of Hybrids and Chimeras in the UK. In Chimbrids: Chimeras and Hybrids in Comparative European and International Research: Scientific, Ethical, Philosophical and Legal Aspects. Taupitz, J. & Weschka, M. Berlin: Springer. 34: 645–666.
• Beyleveld, Deryck (2009). UK: Case 1-10 according to UK law. In CHIMBRIDS - Chimeras and Hybrids in Comparative European and International Research: Scientific, Ethical, Philosophical and Legal Aspects. Taupitz, Jochen & Weschka, Marion Springer. 847-853.
• Beyleveld, D. (2009). Legal Issues Concerning Regulation of Chimeras and Hybrids. In CHIMBRIDS - Chimeras and Hybrids in Comparative European and International Research: Scientific, Ethical, Philosophical and Legal Aspects. Taupitz, J. & Weschka, M. Springer. 645-666.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Brownsword, Roger (2009). Complex Technology, Complex Calculations: Uses and Abuses of Precautionary Reasoning in Law. In Evaluating New Technologies: Methodological Problems for the Ethical Assessment of Technological Developments. Sollie, Paul., Duewell, Marcus. & et al Berlin: Springer. 3: 175-190.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (2008). Human Cognitive Vulnerability and the Moral Status of the Human Embryo and Foetus. In The Contingent Nature of Life. Duwell, Marcus., Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph. & Mieth, Dietmar. Springer. 83-88.
• Beyleveld, D. & Pattinson, Shaun D. (2008). Moral Interests, Privacy and Medical Research. In International Public Health Policy and Ethics. Michael Boylan Netherlands: Springer. 42: 45-57.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Taylor, Mark. J. (2008). Patents for Biotechnology and the Data Protection of Biological Samples and Shared Data. In The Protection of Medical Data: Challenges of the 21st Century. Herveg, Jean Anthemis: Louvain-la-Neuve. 131-152.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Sethe, Sebastian. (2008). The European Community Directives on Data Protection and Clinical Trials. In The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics. Ezekiel J. Emanuel & et al. Oxford University Press, New York. 180-186.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Pattinson, Shaun. (2007). Great Britain’s Perspective on the Status and Protection of the Extracorporeal Embryo. In International Perspectives on the Status and Protection of the Extracorporeal Embryo. Eser, Albin, Koch, Hans Georg. & Seith, Carola. Baden-Baden: Nomos. 171-203.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (2006). Conceptualising Privacy in Relation to medical research values. In First Do Not Harm: Law, Ethics and Healthcare. McLean, Shelia A.M. Aldershot: Ashgate. 151-164.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (2006). Rationality in Bioethics: reasonable Adjudication in a Life and Death Case of the Separation of Conjoined Twins. In Bioethics in Cultural Contexts. Rehmann-Sutter. et al The Netherlands.: Springer. 145-162.
• Beyleveld, Deryck., Baker, S., Wallace, S. & Wright, J. (2005). Research Ethics Committees and the Law in the UK. In Research Ethics Committees, Data Protection and Medical Research in European Countries. Beyleveld,D., Townend, D. & Wright, J. Aldershot.: Ashgate. 271-290.
• Beyleveld, Deryck., Grubb, A., Townend, D., Morgan, R. & Wright, J. (2004). The UK's Implementation of Directive 95/46/EC. In Implementation of the Data Protection Directive in Relation to Medical Research in Europe. Beyleveld, D. Townend,D. Rouillé-Mirza, S. & Wright,K. Aldershot.: Ashgate. 403-428.
• Beyleveld, D. & Townend, D. (2004). EU, Norway and NAS Law Report Framework. In The Data Protection Directive and Medical Research Across Europe. Beyleveld, D., Townend, D., Rouille-Mirza, S. & Wright, J. Ashgate. 115-123.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (2004). An Overview of Directive 95/46/EC in Relation to Medical Research. In The Data Protection Directive and Medical Research Across Europe. Beyleveld, D. Townend, D. Rouillé-Mirza, S. & Wright, J. Aldershot.: Ashgate. 5-22.
• Pattinson, Shaun D. & Beyleveld, D. (2004). Individual Rights, Social Justice, and the Allocation of Advances in Biotechnology. In Public Health, Policy and Ethics. Boylan, M. The Hague: Kluwer International. 59-72.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (2004). The Duty to Provide Information to the Data Subject: Articles 10 and 11 of Directive 95/46/EC. In The Data Protection Directive and Medical Research Across Europe. Beyleveld, D., Townend, D., Rouillé-Mirza, S. & Wright, J. Aldershot.: Ashgate. 69-88.
• Beyleveld, D., Rouille-Mirza, S., Townend, D. & Wright, J. (2004). Introduction. In Implementation of the Data Protection Directive in Relation to Medical Research in Europe. Beyleveld, D., Rouille-Mirza, S., Townend, D. & Wright, J. Ashgate. 3-4.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Townend, David. (2004). Data Protection and Medical Research. In GIS in Public Health Practice: Opportunities and Pitfalls. Maheswaran, R. CRC Press. 251-263.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Pattinson, Shaun. (2004). Globalisation and Human Dignity: Some Effects and Implications for the Creation and Use of Embryos. In Global Governance and the Quest for Justice Volume IV: Human Rights.. Brownsword, Roger. Oxford.: Hart. 185-202.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (2003). Individualrechte und soziale Gerechtigkeit. In Das genetische Wissen und die Zukunft des Menschen. Honnefelder, L. Mieth, D. Propping, P., Siep, L., Wiesemann, C., Lanzerath, D., Cuplinskas, R. & Teuwsen, R. Berlin: De Gruyter. 375-388.
• Beyleveld, Deryck., Brownsword, Roger. & Wallace, Susan. (2002). Independent Ethics Committees in the United Kingdom. In Ethical Function in Hospital Ethics Committees. Lebeer, Guy. Omsha.: IOS Press. 111-123.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Brownsword, Roger. (2002). Ethics Committees: Public Interest, Private Interest, and the Ethics of Partnership.'. In Ethical Function in Hospital Ethics Committees. Lebeer, Guy. Omsha.: IOS Press. 135-149.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Pattinson, Shaun. (2001). Possibilities for European Regulation of Research on Human Embryos. In Embryo Experimentation in Europe: Bio-medical, Legal, and Philosophical Aspects. Friele, M. B. Bad-Neuenahr-Ahrweiler.: European Academy of Science. 58-72.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (2001). Ethics of Statistics in Genetics. In Handbook of Statistical Genetics. Balding, David. Cannings, Chris. & Bishop, Martin. Chichester.: John Wiley and Sons. 697-720.
• Beyleveld, Deryck., Brownsword, Roger. & Wallace, Susan. (2001). Clinical Ethics Committees: Clinician Support or Crisis Management? In HEC Forum, Newsletter of ETHOX. 4000 words.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Brownsword, Roger. (2001). Clinical Ethics Committees in the UK: First Wave, Shock Wave, Second Wave? In Ethical Function on Hospital Ethics Committees 2: Working Papers in Workshop 2 of the Biomed II Concerted Action. Lebeer, Guy. & Moulin, Madeleine. Brussels.: University of Bruxelles. 17-32.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (2000). Ethics Committees as Figures of Democracy. In Ethical Function in Hospital Ethics Committees: Working Papers of Workshop 1 of the Biomed II Concerted Action 1. Lebeer, Guy. & Moulin, Madeleine. Brussels.: Université Libre de Bruxelles. 25-35.
• Beyleveld, D. & Brownsword, R. (2000). Final statement on the concerted action “Basic Principles of Bioethics And Biolaw”. In Centre for Ethics and Law and Barcelona: Institute Borja de Bioètica. Rendtorff, J. D. & Kemp, P. 45-55.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (2000). Ethics Law and Legislation. In Ethik und Wissenschaft in Europa. Mieth, D. Freiburg/München: Alber. 169-195.
• Beyleveld, Deryck., Brownsword, Roger. & Llewelyn, Margaret. (2000). The Morality Clauses in the EC Directive on the Legal Protection of Biotechnological Material: Conflict, Compromise, and the Patent Community. In European Healthcare Law. Lonbay, Julian & Goldberg, Richard. Cambridge.: Cambridge University Press. 157-181.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Pattinson, Shaun. (2000). Precautionary Reasoning as a link to Moral Action. In Medical Ethics. Boylan, M. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.: Prentice Hall. 39-53.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Brownsword, Roger. (2000). Human Dignity, Human Rights and the Human Genome. In Basic Ethical Principles in European Bioethics and Biolaw. Rendtorff,Jacob Dahl. & Kemp, Peter. Copenhagen.: Centre for Ethics and Law and Barcelona: Institute Borja de Bioètica. 2: 15-44.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (2000). The Moral Status of the Human Embryo and Fetus. In The Ethics of Genetics in Human Procreation. Haker, Hille. & Beyleveld, Deryck. Aldershot: Ashgate. 59-85.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & (& Roger Brownsword) (2000). Legal Argumentation in Biolaw. In Bioethics and Biolaw Vol. 1: Judgement of Life. Kemp, Peter. Copenhagen.: Rhodos. 179-217.
• Beyleveld, D. & Brownsword, R. (2000). Independent Ethics Committees in the United Kingdom. In Ethical Function in Hospital Ethics Committees: Working Papers of Workshop 1 of the Biomed II Concerted Action 1. Lebeer, Guy. & Moulin, Madeleine. Brussels.: Université Libre de Bruxelles. 129-143.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Pattinson, Shaun. (2000). Legal Regulation of Assisted Procreation, Genetic Diagnosis and Gene Therapy. In The Ethics of Genetics in Human Procreation. Beyleveld, D. & Haker, H. Aldershot.: Ashgate. 215-276.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (1999). Does PID Solve the Moral Problems of Prenatal Diagnosis? A Rights Analysis. In Genetics in Human Reproduction. Hildt, E. & Graumann, S. Aldershot: Ashgate. 135-140.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (1999). Gewirth and Kant on Justifying the Supreme Principal of Morality. In Gewirth: Critical Essays on Action, Rationality, and Community. Boylan, Michael. New York and London.: Rowman and Littlefield. 97-117.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Brownsword, Roger. (1998). Patenting Human Genes: Legality, Morality, and Human Rights. In Property Problems-From Genes to Pension Funds. Harris, J.W. London.: Kluwer. 9-24.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Brownsword, Roger. (1998). Human Rights, Human Dignity and Human Genes. In Law and Human Genetics. Brownsword, R. Cornish, W. & Llewelyn,M. Oxford.: Blackwell. 69-88.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (1998). The Moral and Legal Status of the Human Embryo. In In Vitro Fertilisation in the 1990's: Towards a Medical, Social and Ethical Evaluation. Hildt, Elisabeth. & Mieth, Dietmar. Aldershot: Ashgate. 247-260.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Brownsword, Roger. (1998). Methodological Syncretism in Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law. In Normativity and Norms: Critical Perspectives on Kelsenian Themes. Paulson, Stanley L. & Paulson, Bonnie Litschewski. Oxford.: Clarendon Press. 113-146.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Brownsword, Roger. (1993). The Dialectically Necessary Foundation of Natural Law. In Closure or Critique: Current Directions in Legal Theory. Norrie, Alan. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 22-44.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Wiles, Paul. (1979). How to Retain Your Soul and Be a Political Deviant. In Deviant Interpretations. Rock, Paul. & Downes, David. Oxford: Martin Robertson.: 122-144.

Conference Proceeding

• Morling, N., Rittner, C., Schmitter, H., Beyleveld D., Martin, P. D., Schneider, P. M., Scheithauer, R., Werrett, D. J., Olaisen, B. & Kloosterman, A. (1997). Summary of the discussion.

Edited book

• Beyleveld, Deryck., Townend, D. & Wright, J. (2005). Research Ethics Committees, Data Protection and Medical Research in European Countries. Data Protection and Medical Research in Europe PRIVIREAL. Aldershot Ashgate.
• Beyleveld, Deryck., Townend, D., Rouillé-Mirza, S. & Wright, J. (2004). Implementation of the Data Protection Directive in Relation to Medical Research in Europe. Aldershot, Ashgate..
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Haker, Hille. (2000). The Ethics of Genetics in Human Procreation. Aldershot, Ashgate..

Journal Article

• Beyleveld, Deyck & Brownsword, Roger (2019). Punitive and Preventive Justice in an Era of Profiling, Smart Prediction and Practical Preclusion: Three Key Questions. International Journal of Law in Context 15(2): 198-218.
• Beyleveld, D. & Jianjun, Li (2017). Inclusive governance over agricultural biotechnology: risk assessment and public participation. Law, Innovation and Technology 9(2): 301-317.
• Adcock, Mike & Beyleveld, Deryck (2016). Morality in Intellectual Property Law: A Concept-Theoretic Framework. Intellectual Property Rights: Open Access 4(1): 154.
• Beyleveld, Deryck (2016). Genetic privacy protection in biobanking. Taiwan journal of law and technology policy 3(2): 5-21.
• Beyleveld, Deryck, Düwell, Marcus & Spahn, Andreas (2015). Why and How Should We Represent Future Generations in Policymaking? Jurisprudence 6(3): 549-566.
• Beyleveld, D. (2015). Korsgaard v. Gewirth on Universalization: Why Gewirthians are Kantians and Kantians Ought to be Gewirthians. Journal of Moral Philosophy 12(5): 573-597.
• Beyleveld, Deryck & Ziche, Paul (2015). Towards a Kantian Phenomenology of Hope. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 18(5): 927-942.
• Beyleveld, D. (2013). Williams’ False Dilemma: How to Give Categorically Binding Impartial Reasons to Real Agents. Journal of Moral Philosophy 10(2): 204-226.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Brownsword, Roger. (2012). Emerging Technologies, Extreme Uncertainty, and the Principle of Rational Precautionary Reasoning. Law, Innovation and Technology 4(1): 35-65.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (2011). The Principle of Generic Consistency as the Supreme Principle of Human Rights. Human Rights Review 13(1): 1-18.
• Pattinson, Shaun D. & Beyleveld, Deryck. (2010). Defending Moral Precaution as a Solution to the Problem of Other Minds: A Reply to Holm and Coggon. Ratio Juris 23(2): 258-273.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Bos, Gerhard (2009). The Foundational Role of the Principal of Instrumental Reason in Gewirth’s Argument for the Principle of Generic Consistency: A Response to Andrew Chitty. King’s Law Journal 20(1): 1-20.
• Adcock, M D. & Beyleveld, D. (2007). Purposive Interpretation and the Regulation of Technology: Legal Constructs, Legal Fictions, and the Rule of Law. Medical Law International 8(4): 305-324.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (2007). Data Protection and Genetics: Medical Research and the Public Good. King’s Law Journal 18:(2): 275-289.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Taylor, Mark J. (2007). Data Protection, Genetics and Patents for Biotechnology. European Journal of Health Law 14(2): 177-187.
• Pattinson, Shaun D. & Beyleveld, D. (2006). Medical Research into Emergency Treatment: Regulatory Tensions in England and Wales. Web Journal of Current Legal Issues 5.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Brownsword, R. (2006). Principle, Proceduralism and Precaution in a Community of Rights. Ratio Juris 19(2): 141-168.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Toddington, S. (2005). Human Nature, Social Theory and the Problem of Institutional Design. Studies in Social and Political Thought 12: 2-29.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (2005). Genetic Privacy in Biobanking. International Conference on Legal and Ethical Issues of Biobanking. Tsing Hua Journal of Technology and Policy 6-21.
• Beyleveld, Deryck & Townend, David (2004). When is Personal Data Rendered Anonymous? Interpreting Recital 26 of Directive 95/46/EC. Medical Law International 6(2): 73-86.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Brownsword, Roger. (2002). Is Patent Law Part of the EC Legal Order? A Critical Commentary on the Interpretation of Article 6(1) of Directive 98/44/EC in Case C-377/98.'. Intellectual Property Quarterly 129-143.
• Pattinson, Shaun D. & Beyleveld, Deryck. (2002). 'Horizontal Applicability and Horizontal Effect'. Law Quarterly Review 118: 623-646.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (2002). Law, Ethics, and Research Ethics Committees. Medicine and Law 1 : 57-75.
• Beyleveld, Deryck., Kirkham, Richard. & Townend, David. (2002). Which Presumption? A Critique of the House of Lords Reasoning on Retrospectivity and the Human Rights Act. Legal Studies 22(2): 185-207.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (2002). 'A Reply to Marcus G. Singer on 'Gewirth, Beyleveld and Dialectical Necessity.'. Ratio Juris 15(4): 458-473.
• Beyleveld, D. (2001). How Not to Regulate in the Public Interest: Source Informatics, Data Protection and the Health and Social Care Act. Genetics law monitor
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (2001). The Role of Research Ethics Committees in Safeguarding the Rights of Patients in Genetic Research. European Biopharmaceutical Review
• Beyleveld, D. (2001). Ethics by Partnership: An Imperative for the Future of Pharmacogenetics. Pharmacogenetics
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (2001). Law, Ethics and Genomics. Business Briefing: PharmaTech
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (2000). Is Embryo Research and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis Ethical? Forensic Science International 113: 461-475.
• Beyleveld, D. (2000). Why Recital 26 of the EC Directive on the Legal Protection of Biotechnological Inventions Should Be Implemented in National Law. Intellectual property quarterly 1-26.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (2000). Regulating Morality Through Patent Law: A Critique of the EC Directive. Law and the Human Genome Review 12: 141-171.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Brownsword, Roger. (2000). My Body, My Body Parts, My Property? Health Care Analysis 87-99.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & (& Elise Histead) (2000). Betrayal of Confidence in the Court of Appeal. Medical Law International 4: 277-311.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Histed, Elise. (1999). Anonymisation is Not Exoneration: R v. Department of Health, ex parte Source Informatics Ltd. Medical Law International 4(1): 69-80.
• Beyleveld, Deryck., Gunter, Barrie. & Kinderlerer, Julian J. (1999). The Media and Public Understanding of Biotechnology. Science Communication 20(4): 373-394.
• Beyleveld, D. & Brownsword, R. (1998). Human dignity, human rights, and human genetics. Modern Law Review 61(5): 661-680.
• Beyleveld, Deryck., Quarrell, Oliver. & Toddington, Stuart. (1998). Generic Consistency in the Reproductive Enterprise: Ethical and Legal Implications of Exclusion Testing for Huntington's Disease. Medical Law International 3(223): 135-158.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Longley, Diane. (1998). Informing Potential Participants of Local Research Ethics Committee Approval of Research Protocols. Medical Law International 3(233): 209-222.
• Beyleveld, Deryck., Gunter, Barry, & Kinderlerer, Julian J. (1998). Research Report. Teenagers and Biotechnology: A Survey of Understanding and Public Opinion in Britain. Studies in Science Education 32: 81-112.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Villiers, Charlotte. (1997). A General Right to a Minimum Wage in English Law: An Argument from Generic Consistency. Legal Studies 17(2): 234-257.
• Beyleveld, D., Adams, J. & Brownsword, R. (1997). Privity of Contract-the Benefits and Burdens of Law Reform. Modern Law Review 60(2): 234-257.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (1997). Ethical Issues in the Forensic Applications DNA Analysis. Forensic Science International 88:3-15.
• Beyleveld, D. (1996). Legal Theory and Dialectically Contingent Justifications for the Principle of Generic Consistency. Ratio Juris 9(1): 15-41.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (1996). Dialectically Contingent Justifications for the Principle of Generic Consistency and Legal Theory. Ratio Juris 9(1): 15-41.
• Beyleveld, D., Howells, G. G. & Longley, D. (1995). Heart valve ownership: legal, ethical and policy issues. The Journal of heart valve disease 4(Suppl 1): S2-6.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (1995). The Concept of Human Right and Incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights. Public Law (Winter) 577-598.
• Beyleveld, D. (1993). From the 'Middle-Way' to normative irrationalism: Hans Kelsen's General Theory of Norms. Modern Law Review 56: 104-119.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Brownsword, Roger. (1991). Privity, Transitivity, and Rationality. Modern Law Review 54 (1): 48-71.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Brownsword, Roger. (1991). Impossibility, Irrationality, and Strict Product Liability. Anglo-American Law Review 21: 257-284.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Roger Brownsword. (1989). Les Implications de la Theorie du Droit Naturel en Sociologie du Droit. Droit et Societe 13: 389-414.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (1989). Normative Positivism: The Mirage of The Middle-Way. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 9(4): 463-512.
• Beyleveld, D. & Brownsword, R (1987). Practice made perfect? Modern Law Review 50(5): 662-672.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (1985). The Practical Difference Between Natural Law Theory and Legal Positivism. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 5(1): 1-32.
• Beyleveld, Deryck (1983). Law as a Moral Judgment vs. Law as the Rules of the Powerful. American Journal of Jurisprudence 28(1): 79-117.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (1982). Ehrlich's Analysis of Deterrence: Methodogical Strategy and Ethics in Isaac Ehrlich's Research and Writing on the Death Penalty as a Deterent. British Journal of Criminology 22(2): 101-123.
• Beyleveld, D. (1981). Naturalism and Social Science: A Post-Empiricist Philosophy of Social Science. Sociology 15(1): 156-157.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (1979). Identifying, Explaining, and Predicting Deterrence. British Journal of Criminology 19(3): 205-224.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (1979). Deterrence Research as a Basis for Deterrence Policies. Howard Journal of Penology and Crime Prevention 18:135-149.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. & Wiles, Paul. (1975). Man and Method in David Matza's Becoming Deviant. British Journal of Criminology 15(2): 111-127.
• Beyleveld, D. (1973). Philosophical issues and the "New Criminology". British Journal of Criminology 13(4): 394-395.

Other (Print)

• Beyleveld, Deryck. (2009). Morality and the god of reason. Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics University of Utrecht.
• Beyleveld, Deryck. (2006). Creating Mice with Human Brains. Inaugural Public Lecture as Belle van Zuylen Chair of Human Rights and Bioethics.

Working Paper

• Beyleveld, Deryck & Brownsword, Roger (1999). Main developments in bioethics and biolaw in the United Kingdom, 1996-1998.
• Beyleveld, D. & Brownsword, R. (1997). Human dignity, human rights, and the human genome. 37-64.
• Beyleveld, Deryck & Brownsword, Roger (1996). SIBLE: II European legal-morality and its application to the Human Genome Project.