Law

Legal and ethical issues regarding the new genetic technologies; privacy and discrimination and other regulatory, policy and law reform issues

2005 – 2009 Facilitation and Regulation of Genetic Databanks

2002 – 2004 Genetic Discrimination in Australia

2002 – 2004 Regulating the Collection and use of Human Tissue

1999 – 2001 Commercialisation of Human Genetic Technology

'Mercy Killing Cases in the Australian Criminal Justice System' (1993) 17 Criminal Law Journal 10

Voluntary Euthanasia and the Common Law (1997) Oxford University Press (UK) (564 pages) (now also published in paperback)

'Re Evelyn - Reflections on Australia's First Litigated Surrogacy Case' (1999) 7 Medical Law Review 38

‘Resolving the Conundrum: Should Insurers be Entitled to Access Genetic Test Information?’ (2000) 11 Insurance Law Journal 193

‘Avoiding Genetic Testing and Insurance: An Exploration of the Legality and Ethics of Precautionary Measures in Anticipation of Unfavourable Test Outcomes’ (2001) 20 Monash Bioethics Review 24

Implications of Genetic Testing for Australian Insurance Law and Practice, Centre for Law and Genetics, Occasional Paper No. 1 (2001) (pp 74)

Implications of Genetic Testing for Australian Employment Law and Practice, Centre for Law and Genetics, Occasional Paper No. 2 (2001) (pp 96)

‘Major Study Commencing into Genetic Discrimination in Australia’ (2002) 10 Journal of Law and Medicine (with Dr Sandy Taylor and Dr Kristine Barlow-Stewart) 41

'Employers' Use of Genetic Test Information: Is there a Need for Regulation?' (2002) 15 Australian Journal of Labour Law 1

‘Protecting Genetic Privacy in the Research Context: Where to From Here?’ (2002) 2 Macquarie Law Journal 87

Member, Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Tribunal

Member, Board of the Australian Institute of Health Law and Ethics

Committee Member, Medico-Legal Society of Tasmania

Member, Investment Financial Services Association (IFSA) Stakeholder Group on Genetics and Insurance

Member, Independent Stem Cell Ethics Advisory Committee established by the Murdoch Children's Research Institute

Member, International Working Group on Euthanasia and Related Issues, established by Professor John Griffiths from the Netherlands in 1998 in conjunction with an international research collaboration on the regulation of medical behaviour that potentially shortens life (MBPSL)

Member, Editorial Board, Australian Health Law Bulletin

Consultant to the Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Services