Professor EmeritusMargaret Otlowski
Emeritus Professor
Office of LT Performance
- Emeritus ProfessorOffice of LT Performance
- +61 3 6226 7569 (Work)
- Faculty of Law, Law, Private Bag 89, Hobart, Tas, 7001, Australia
SUPERVISION AND TEACHING SUMMARy
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.
SUPERVISION & TEACHING
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONLaw and Ethics of Health Innovation28 Sep 2026
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONNew Project Title: Legal, Ethical and Social Implications of use of AI-based Medical Devices in Healthcare: Balancing AI development and Patient Rights and Safety.17 Feb 2025
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONA Disability Human Rights-based Approach to Neurotechnology20 Nov 2023
- EXTERNAL PHD/MASTERS SUPERVISIONEthical, legal and social considerations in the optimisation of genomic medicine for public health1 Jul 2020 - 15 Mar 2023
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONMaking a Difference: A feminist analysis of the jurisprudential leadership of the women judges of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka3 Dec 2018 - 15 Dec 2023
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONTranslating Public Trust to Law Reform Through Australian Genomic Data Sharing Scenarios7 Sep 2018
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONA 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 law5 Feb 2018 - 28 Apr 2023
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONA Social Justice Lawyer in Bangladesh: The pioneering work of Salma Sobhan27 Nov 2017 - 17 Dec 2022
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONThink Before you Spit … and Share: Protecting consumers in Australia’s direct-to-consumer health-related genetic testing (DTCGT) space15 Nov 2012 - 22 May 2020
- COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISIONThe Standard of Medical Care in Malaysia: The Case for Legislative Reform10 Mar 2010 - 14 Nov 2012
- COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISIONCircumcision in Australia: Reforming the Law7 Apr 2008 - 7 Mar 2011
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONJudicial Meetings with Children in Australian Family Law Proceedings: Hearing Children's Voices20 Mar 2006 - 29 Jun 2011
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONA Comparative Analysis of the Medico-legal and Ethical Issues Associated with Embryonic Stem Cell Research in Australia and Malaysia2 Dec 2005 - 8 Jun 2012
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONThe Legal Injury Narrative: Personal Injury Litigation and Melodrama19 Jan 1999 - 17 Jan 2006
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONA Twitch upon a Thread: Regulation of Human Tissue use in Australia and the Application of Property Law14 Jan 1999 - 13 Jul 2005
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONStrike or Strike Out: An Analysis of Australian Compliance with International Standards on the Right to Strike16 Mar 1998 - 28 Jun 2005
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONStrengthening the Rule of Law or Serving as a Tool of War? A Critical Analysis of United Nations Sanctions2 Feb 1998 - 4 Jul 2005
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONThe Relevance of Domestic Violence in Proceedings for Financial Relief under the Family Law Act 1975 (CTH)13 Mar 1996 - 18 Apr 2001
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONInterventions in Perinatal Medicine: A Jurisdictional Analysis15 Feb 1996 - 19 May 2005
- COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISIONRegulating work in the public interest - A comparison of Commonwealth, Victorian and British Minimum Wage Regimes (1890-1936)1 Jan 1995 - 22 Apr 2002