Dr Kristin Savell
Profile
Degrees:
B.Sc, LLB Macq; LLM McGill; PhD Camb
Courses Taught:
Undergraduate
Criminal law
Postgraduate
Death Law
Health Care and Professional Liability
Health Law for Health Professionals
Policing Bodies: Crime, Sexuality & Reproduction
Areas of Interest:
Health Law
Criminal Law
Legal Theory
Legal Personhood
Law & Sexuality
Brief Biographical Details:
After graduating from Macquarie University (B.Sc/LL.B(Hons)), Kristin worked as a solicitor in the Intellectual Property, Trade Practices + Technology group of Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Sydney. In 1994, she was awarded the Lionel Murphy Postgraduate Scholarship and moved to Montreal to undertake graduate studies at the McGill University Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law. She completed an LLM, with a specialization in bioethics, and graduated with Honours. She was awarded the Max Crestohl Prize for the best article published in the McGill Law Journal in 1996. In the same year, she was awarded the W.M. Tapp Studentship in Law by Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University, and she moved to England to undertake doctoral studies in health law. She returned to Australia in 2000 to join the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney.
Offices Held (selected)
Lawyer Member, NSW Cancer Institute, Clinical Research Ethics Committee, 2008-
Deputy Director, Centre for Health Governance, Law and Ethics, University of Sydney: 2007–
Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney: 2007-
Associate Fellow, Centre for Biomedicine and Society, Kings College, London: 2007–
Member, Editorial Board, Sydney Law Review: 2006–
Member, Editorial Board, Current Issues in Criminal Justice: 2006–
Management Committee Member, Institute of Criminology, Sydney University: 2000–
Management Committee Member (and former Deputy Director), Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence, Sydney University: 2002-
Major Grants
ARC Discovery Grant, "The legal meaning of "serious disability" in prenatal and neonatal decision-making" 2009-2011 (with Isabel Karpin)
Grants and Fellowships (selected)
LSSF grant, "An analysis and critique of the legal regulation of embryonic research for therapeutic purposes and the prohibition of inheritable genetic modification in Australia, the UK and the USA" (2008)
USyd (Research and Development) Grant, 'The determination of criminal liability for death in medical settings' (2007)
LSSF grant: Disability, Abortion and Infanticide (2006);
LSSF grant (with Isabel Karpin): Human Rights and Personhood (2004);
W. M. Tapp Studentship in Law (Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge) (1996-1999);
Lionel Murphy Postgraduate Scholarship (1994).
Publications
Books | Book Chapters | Refereed Journals | Legal Encyclopedias | Book Reviews | Conference/Seminar Papers | Other Articles
Books
- Perfecting Pregnancy - Law, Disability and the Future of Reproduction (forthcoming CUP, New York) (with Isabel Karpin)
- Savell, K, “Turning Mothers into Bio-ethicists: Late Abortion and Disability” in B Bennett, T Carney & I Karpin (eds) The Brave New World of Health, Federation Press: Australia (2008) 93-111.
- Savell, K, “Mother of the Legal Person” in S Palmer & S James (eds), Visible Women - Essays in Feminist Legal Theory and Philosophy, Hart: Oxford (2002) 29-67.
- Savell K, and Karpin I, "The meaning of "serious disability" in the legal regulation of prenatal and neonatal decision-making" (2008) 16 Journal of Law and Medicine 233-245.
- Savell K, 'Life and Death Before Birth: 4D Ultrasound and the Shifting Frontiers of the Abortion Debate' (2007) 15 Journal of Law and Medicine 103-116.
- Savell, K, 'The Legal Significance of Birth' (2006) 29 University of NSW Law Journal 200-206.
- Savell, K, 'Is the 'Born Alive' Rule Outdated and Indefensible? (2006) 28 Sydney Law Review 625-664.
- Savell, K, 'Sex & the Sacred: Sterilization and Bodily Integrity in English and Canadian Law' (2004) 49 McGill Law Journal 1093-1141.
- Savell, K, 'Human Rights in the Age of Technology: Can Law Rein in the Medical Juggernaut?' (2001) 23 Sydney Law Review 423-460.
- Savell, K, 'Wrestling with Contradictions: Traditional Practices Affecting the Human Rights of Women' (1996) 41 McGill Law Journal 781-817.
- Savell, K, Butterworths/Lexis Nexis, Halsbury's Laws of Australia, 20.12, Chapter 5 'Newborns with Disabilities'.
- Savell, K, 'The Interfaces of Medicine & Law: The History of the Liability for Negligently Caused Psychiatric Injury (Nervous Shock)' (1999) 58 Cambridge Law Journal 638-641.
- Savell, K, 'Feminist Perspectives on Health Care Law' (1999) 58 Cambridge Law Journal 449-452.
- Savell, K, 'Law's Expanding Domain: Technology and the Late Term Foetus' presented at Regulating the Scientific Frontier Conference, University of Sydney, 24 November 2006.
- Savell, K, 'The Morality of Abortion - Reflections on Donald Marquis' 'Future of Value', Intersections Seminar Series, Faculty of Law, May 2006.
- Savell, K, 'The Conjoined Twins - A Legal Perspective', presented at CLE Seminar, Tragic Choices: Clinical, Legal and Ethical Perspectives on the British Conjoined Twins Case, University of Sydney, 15 November 2000.
- Savell, K, 'Maternal Monstrosities and Other Catastrophes - Risk, Responsibility and Disobedience in Cultural and Legal Narratives about Pregnancy', presented at Risk & Responsibility Conference, University of Sydney, 10-11 November 2000.
- Savell, K, 'Killing Jodie to Save Mary: Notions of Sacrifice and Bodily Integrity in Re A (Children)', presented at Faculty of Law Seminar Series, University of Sydney, 12 October 2000.
- Savell, K, 'Foetal Rights: The Politics of Boundaries', presented at Faculty of Law Seminar Series, Macquarie University, May 2000.
- Savell, K, 'The Recognition of Foetal Rights in English Law', presented to Faculty of Law, Cambridge University, February 1999.
- Savell, K, 'Constructions of the Maternal Body in Law', presented at International Conference on Gender, Sexuality and Law, Keele University, United Kingdom, July 1998.
- Savell, K, 'Legal Responses to Women with HIV' (first speaker), presented at Lionel Murphy Annual Memorial Lecture, Sydney, December 1995.
- Savell K, "Reproductive Choice or Eliminating Disability? Prenatal Testing and Abortion' (2008) Precedent (forthcoming October)
