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Margaret Otlowski

Professor in Law (Personal Chair)

Law

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  • Professor in Law (Personal Chair)
    Law
  • +61 3 6226 7569 (Work)
  • Faculty of Law, Law, Private Bag 89, Hobart, Tas, 7001, Australia

TEACHING INTERESTS

Teaching (undergraduate)

Margaret has taught across a variety of units over the course of her career, including Labour Law, Employment Law, Family Law, Torts, Law and Ethics of Health Care and Biotechnology Law. Since concluding her Deanship role, during which she had limited teaching involvement, she has coordinated LAW181 Ethics, Social Responsibility and the Law and has taught into Introduction to Law units (Legal Systems and LAW107 Foundations of Law). She has been responsible for unit design of many of these units. She has also been involved in teaching health law and ethics topics to medical students.

Research Supervision

Margaret has supervised a range of PhD and LLM to successful completion predominantly on health law topics, including as part of an interdisciplinary supervision team. She also regularly examines Research Higher Degree theses. She welcomes inquiries from prospective candidates in her areas of expertise.

SUPERVISION & TEACHING

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CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
Rethinking emerging technology from persons with disabilities' perspective: A Human rights-based approach to the design, development and deployment of Artificial Intelligence.
20 Nov 2023
EXTERNAL PHD/MASTERS SUPERVISION
Ethical, legal and social considerations in the optimisation of genomic medicine for public health
1 Jul 2020 - 15 Mar 2023
COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
Making a Difference: A feminist analysis of the jurisprudential leadership of the women judges of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
3 Dec 2018 - 15 Dec 2023
Rajabhandagari Mahanayake Mudalige Sunethra Mary Esther Goonetilleke
CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
Translating Public Trust to Law Reform Through Australian Genomic Data Sharing Scenarios
7 Sep 2018
COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
A Rose is a Rose: But not all discrimination smells the same. An exploration of the capacity of the psychology of stigma, prejudice and discrimination to enhance discrimination law
5 Feb 2018 - 28 Apr 2023
Robin Lynette Banks
COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
A Social Justice Lawyer in Bangladesh: The pioneering work of Salma Sobhan
27 Nov 2017 - 17 Dec 2022
Asma Bint Shafiq
COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
Think Before you Spit … and Share: Protecting consumers in Australia’s direct-to-consumer health-related genetic testing (DTCGT) space
15 Nov 2012 - 22 May 2020
Mary Jan Marcelline Charbonneau
COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISION
The Standard of Medical Care in Malaysia: The Case for Legislative Reform
10 Mar 2010 - 14 Nov 2012
Joseph Ming Yong Lee
COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISION
Circumcision in Australia: Reforming the Law
7 Apr 2008 - 7 Mar 2011
Warwick Edward Marshall
COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
Judicial Meetings with Children in Australian Family Law Proceedings: Hearing Children's Voices
20 Mar 2006 - 29 Jun 2011
Michelle Meilin Fernando
COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
A Comparative Analysis of the Medico-legal and Ethical Issues Associated with Embryonic Stem Cell Research in Australia and Malaysia
2 Dec 2005 - 8 Jun 2012
Chee Kuen Foong
COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
The Legal Injury Narrative: Personal Injury Litigation and Melodrama
19 Jan 1999 - 17 Jan 2006
Samantha Jane Hardy
COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
A Twitch upon a Thread: Regulation of Human Tissue use in Australia and the Application of Property Law
14 Jan 1999 - 13 Jul 2005
Imogen Louise Goold
COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
Strike or Strike Out: An Analysis of Australian Compliance with International Standards on the Right to Strike
16 Mar 1998 - 28 Jun 2005
Shae Louise McCrystal
COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
Strengthening the Rule of Law or Serving as a Tool of War? A Critical Analysis of United Nations Sanctions
2 Feb 1998 - 4 Jul 2005
Jeremy Matam Farrall
COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
The Relevance of Domestic Violence in Proceedings for Financial Relief under the Family Law Act 1975 (CTH)
13 Mar 1996 - 18 Apr 2001
Sarah Lee Middleton
COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
Interventions in Perinatal Medicine: A Jurisdictional Analysis
15 Feb 1996 - 19 May 2005
Brenda McGivern
COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISION
Regulating work in the public interest - A comparison of Commonwealth, Victorian and British Minimum Wage Regimes (1890-1936)
1 Jan 1995 - 22 Apr 2002
Rohan Bruce Edward Price