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Professor Belinda Bennett

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Qualifications
BEc, LLB (Hons) Macq; LLM, SJD Wisc. GAICD

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

  • Contemporary Issues In Health Law
  • Health Law Jurisprudence
  • Medical Law
  • Torts

Postgraduate

  • Health Law and Globalisation
  • Information Rights in Health Care
  • Reproduction and the Law

Areas of Interest

  • health and medical law
  • legal regulation of new technologies in healthcare
  • legal issues relating to reproduction
  • genetics
  • globalisation and health law
  • legal regulation of nanotechnologies

Brief Biographical Detail

Belinda Bennett is Professor of Health and Medical Law and teaches health law at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Belinda is a member of the University’s Academic Board and Chair of the Academic Board’s Academic Staffing Committee. Within the Faculty of Law Belinda is Associate Dean (International) and Director of the Faculty’s Centre for Health Governance, Law and Ethics. Her previous positions in the Faculty include: Pro-Dean (Teaching Programs), Associate Dean (Postgraduate Coursework), and as the Faculty’s first Director of Teaching Development. Belinda was a founding Board Member of the Australian Institute for Health Law and Ethics (AIHLE) (now the Australian and New Zealand Institute for Health Law and Ethics (ANZIHLE)) and is the Deputy Editor of the Journal of Law and Medicine.

Major Research Grants

Australian Research Council

  • B Bennett, W Rogers and I Karpin, “Gender Inequities in Health Research: Towards a New Regulatory Framework” ARC Discovery Grant (DP0666279) (2006-08).
  • D Rothwell and B Bennett, “Globalisation and Biomedicine: The Harmonisation of Local and Global Regulatory Demands.” ARC Discovery Project (DP0452853) (2004-05).

University

  • I Karpin and B Bennett, “The Regulation of PGD in Australia and New Zealand: Assessing the Attitudes of Key Stakeholders.” University of Sydney Bridging Support Grant (2008).
  • I Karpin and B Bennett, “Regulating Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis: A Case Study for Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technology.” University of Sydney Bridging Support Grant (2007).
  • I Karpin and B Bennett, “Comparative Legal and Ethical Considerations in Regulating Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis.” University of Sydney Bridging Support Grant (2006).

Publications

Books and edited works

  • B, Bennett Health Law’s Kaleidoscope: Health Law Rights in a Global Age, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, UK, (2008).
  • B, Bennett, T, Carney, & I, Karpin, (eds) The Brave New World of Health, Federation Press, Sydney, (Forthcoming 2008).
  • A, Ballantyne, B, Bennett, I Karpin and W Rogers (Guest editors), special issue of the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (2008) 1(2) on the theme of “Research Ethics: Women, Sex and Gender in Biomedical Research.” (forthcoming)
  • B, Bennett (ed) “Regulating the Scientific Frontier,” Special issue of the Journal of Law and Medicine (2007) 15, pp 1-162.
  • B, Bennett (ed) Health, Rights and Globalisation, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 2006.
  • B, Bennett and GF, Tomossy (eds), Globalization and Health: Challenges for Health Law and Bioethics, Springer, Dordrecht, 2006
  • B, Bennett (ed), Abortion, Ashgate: Aldershot (2004). (International Library of Medicine, Ethics and Law series)
  • B, Bennett & R, Lyster (eds), Reimagining the Global Space: Feminism, Globalisation and Law, LexisNexis Butterworths: Sydney (2002) (special issue of the Australian Feminist Law Journal).
  • B, Bennett & R, Magnusson (eds), Sydney Law Review, Special Issue - Reshaping the Legal Landscape: Medicine, Technology and the Law, Lawbook Co: Sydney (2001).
  • B, Bennett, Guest editor, "The Body and the Law" Special Issue of the Journal of Law and Medicine (2000) 7(4) pp333-444.
  • B, Bennett, Law and Medicine, LBC Information Services: Sydney (1997).
  • H Astor, B Bennett and P Pether (eds) "Symposium: Engendering New Law Stories: Feminist Legal Theories and Praxis" Special Issue of the Sydney Law Review (1996) 18(4) pp 421-597.

Book chapters

  • B, Bennett, I, Karpin, A, Ballantyne and W Rogers, “Gender Inequities in Health Research: An Australian Perspective” in Michael Freeman (ed) Law and Bioethics (Oxford University Press, 2008, forthcoming).
  • B, Bennett “Globalising Rights? Constructing Health Rights in a Shrinking World” in Bennett, B, Carney, T & Karpin, I, (eds) The Brave New World of Health,, Federation Press, Sydney, (Forthcoming 2008).
  • B, Bennett “Reproductive Technology” in The Laws of Australia (Law Book Company 2007) Chapter 20.12, pp 475-518.
  • B, Bennett and I, Freckelton "Life After the Ipp Reforms: Australian Medical Negligence Law" in Ian Freckelton and Kerry Petersen (eds) Disputes and Dilemmas in Health Law , Federation Press, Sydney, 2006, pp 381-405.
  • B, Bennett "Travel in a Small World: SARS, Globalization and Public Health Laws" in B Bennett, and GF Tomossy (eds), Globalization and Health: Challenges for Health Law and Bioethics, Springer, Dordrecht, 2006, pp 1-12.
  • B, Bennett "Introduction" in B Bennett, (ed) Health, Rights and Globalisation, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 2006, pp xi-xvii.
  • B, Bennett "Introduction" in B Bennett, (ed) Abortion, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 2004, pp xi-xvii.
  • B, Bennett "Choosing a Child's Future? Reproductive decision-making and preimplantation genetic diagnosis" in J Gunning & H Szoke (eds), The Regulation of Assisted Reproductive Technology, Ashgate: Aldershot (2003), 167-176.
  • B, Bennett "Women's Health in the Global Village" in B Bennett & R Lyster (eds), Reimagining the Global Space: Feminism, Globalisation and Law, LexisNexis Butterworths (2002), 48-62.
  • B, Bennett "Written in Code: Diversity and the new genetics" in M Freeman & A Lewis (eds), Law & Medicine - Current Legal Issues, OUP: Oxford (2000), 189-203.
  • B, Bennett "Gamete Donation, Reproductive Technology and the Law" in K Petersen (ed), Intersections: Women on law, medicine and technology, Ashgate: Aldershot (1997), 127-144.

Journal articles

  • B, Bennett and I, Karpin, “Regulatory Options for Gender Equity in Health Research” (2008) 1(2) International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (forthcoming).
  • B, Bennett “Editorial: Law and Ethics for the Bioeconomy and Beyond” (2007) 15 Journal of Law and Medicine 7-12.
  • B, Bennett “Regulating Small Things: Genes, Gametes and Nanotechnology” (2007) 15(1) Journal of Law and Medicine 153-60.
  • B, Bennett "Globalising the Body: Globalisation and Reproductive Rights" (2006) UNSW Law Journal 266-71.
  • I, Karpin and B, Bennett "Genetic Technologies and the Regulation of Reproductive Decision-making in Australia" (2006) Journal of Law and Medicine 127-34.
  • B, Bennett "Medical Science and the Law" (2006) Macquarie Law Symposium - Law, Religion and Medical Science 41-43.
  • B, Bennett "Rewriting the Future? Biomedical Advances and Legal Dilemmas" (2006) 13(3) Journal of Law and Medicine 295-303.
  • B, Bennett "Symbiotic Relationships: Saviour Siblings, Family Rights and Biomedicine" (2005) 19(3) Australian Journal of Family Law 195-212.
  • B, Bennett & D, Bell 'Genetic secrets and the family' (2001) 9 Medical Law Review 130-161.
  • B, Bennett, 'New challenges for old laws? The development of e-health in Australia' (2001) 23(3) Sydney Law Review 405-422.
  • B, Bennett 'Prenatal diagnosis, genetics and reproductive decision-making' (2001) 9 Journal of Law and Medicine 28-40.
  • B, Bennett 'Reproductive technology, public policy and single motherhood' (2000) 22 Sydney Law Review 625-635.
  • B, Bennett 'Guest editorial: the body and the law' (2000) 7 Journal of Law and Medicine 337-338.
  • B, Bennett 'Legal regulation of reproductive technology in Australia' (2000) 1(2) Journal of Women's Health & Law 147-165.
  • B, Bennett 'The human embryo as property? Cryopreservation and the challenges for law', (2000) 7 Journal of Law & Medicine 434-441.
  • B, Bennett 'Posthumous reproduction and the meanings of autonomy' (1999) 23(2) Melbourne University Law Review 286-307.
  • B, Bennett 'Setting the standard? Clinical practice guidelines and medical negligence litigation' (1997) 20 UNSW Law Journal 707-723.
  • B, Bennett "Gamete Donation, Reproductive Technology and the Law" (1993) 11(2) Law in Context 41-57.
  • B, Bennett "Resource Allocation and the Beginning of Life" (1993) 9 Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 77-90.
  • B, Bennett "Pregnant Women and the Duty to Rescue: A Feminist Response to the Fetal Rights Debate" (1991) 9(1) Law in Context 70-91.
  • B, Bennett "The Economics of Wifing Services: Law and Economics on the Family" (1991) 18(2) Journal of Law and Society 206-18.

Conference papers and presentations

  • B, Bennett “Legal Rights During Pandemics” at Crossing Borders: Legal, Security and Health Perspectives on Pandemic Influenza, University of Sydney, 23 November 2007.
  • B, Bennett “Technology, Law and Public Policy”, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 17 November 2007.
  • B, Bennett ‘Regulatory Frameworks for Health Research: Are They Relevant for Gender Equality?’, presented at the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) National Research Ethics Conference, Melbourne, 17-18 October 2007.
  • B, Bennett “Crafting Laws for the Frontiers of Science”, University of Sydney/University College London Frontiers of Knowledge Symposium, London, 11 July 2007.
  • B, Bennett “Crafting Laws for the Frontiers of Science”, University of Sydney Frontiers of Knowledge Symposium, Berlin, 9 July 2007.
  • B, Bennett, A, Ballantyne, I, Karpin, and W, Rogers. “Gender Equity in Health Research,” 12th International Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Law and Bioethics, University College London, 2-3 July 2007.
  • B, Bennett “Women and Health Research: A Role for Law?”, 30th International Congress on Law and Mental Health, Padua, Italy, 25-30 June 2007.
  • B, Bennett "Regulating Small Things: Genes, Gametes and Nanotechnology", Regulating the Scientific Frontier - 2nd Annual Conference, Centre for Health Governance, Law & Ethics, University of Sydney, 24 November 2006.
  • B, Bennett "The Next Pandemic? Globalisation and Public Health Laws", Kirby Seminar series, School of Law, University of New England, Armidale, 1 May 2006.
  • B, Bennett "Regulating Rights in a Posthuman World: Law, Ethics and Medical Science" Willis Cunningham Memorial Lecture, Faculty of Law, Queen's University, Canada, 9 January 2006.
  • B, Bennett "The Next Pandemic? Globalisation and Public Health Laws", presented at Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, Canada, 19 January 2006.
  • B, Bennett "Globalising Rights? Constructing Health Rights in a Shrinking World" Presented at the Centre for Health Governance, Law and Ethics conference on Constructions of Health, 4 November 2005, Sydney.
  • B, Bennett "Federalism, Globalisation and Biomedicine" Presented at workshop on Globalisation and Biomedicine, 3 November 2005, Sydney Law School.
  • B, Bennett "Globalising the Body? Globalisation and Reproductive Rights" presented at the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence conference on Sex, Gender & Rights conference, 5 August 2005, Sydney.
  • B, Bennett "Health Rights and Health Tourism: New Challenges for Law and Ethics" presented during March 2005 at:
    - Faculty of Law, University College Dublin, Ireland;
    - Globalisation Research Group, University College Cork, Ireland;
    - School of Law, University of Limerick, Ireland; Faculty of Law,
    - University College London
  • B, Bennett 'Between the Local and the Global: Reimagining Public Health Law', presented at 15th World Congress on Medical Law, Sydney, 1-5 August 2004.
  • B, Bennett 'Between the Local and the Global: Reimagining Public Health Law', presented at 7th World Congress on Bioethics, Sydney, November 2004.
  • B, Bennett '"Saviour Siblings" and the Assessment of Best Interests', presented at the combined conference of the Australian Bioethics Association and the Australian Institute of Health, Law and Ethics, Sydney, 12-14 November 2004.
  • B, Bennett 'Beyond Universalism and Relativism: Health, Rights and Gender', presented at Workshop on Intersections of Medical Ethics and International Human Rights, Canberra, 18-19 November 2004.
  • B, Bennett 'Regulating Biomedicine in the Global Age', response to Pelicier Address by Justice Michael Kirby, presented at Medicine and Industry: Changing paradigms in law, ethics and the health professions, Sydney, 28-29 September 2003.
  • B, Bennett 'Travel in a Small World: SARS, globalisation and public health laws', presented at the 28th International Congress on Law and Mental Health, Sydney, 30 September-3 October 2003.
  • B, Bennett 'Delivering Health Care Remotely: Legal issues in telemedicine', presented at the 2nd Annual Sydney Health Law Conference, 20 September 2002.
  • B, Bennett 'Law and the family in the age of new technologies', presented at the 17th World Congress of International Federation of Fertility Societies , Melbourne, 2001.
  • B, Bennett 'Choosing a child's future: Legal issues in preimplantation genetic diagnosis', presented at The State of ART Legislation, Melbourne, 2001.
  • B, Bennett 'Living in the Grey Zone: Health law in an age of scientific change', presented at the Australian Institute of Health, Law and Ethics Conference, Melbourne, 2001.
  • B, Bennett 'Private health and the public policy: Privatisation, globalisation and health care', presented at the Feminist Legal Academics' Workshop, Brisbane, 2001.