Health and Medical Law
Melbourne Law School’s graduate program in health and medical law is open to lawyers in the medico-legal area and to doctors and other health professionals and administrators (no prior legal qualification is required).
Subjects include Medical Litigation (taught by leading plaintiffs’ litigator Paul Henderson from Slater & Gordon in 2011); International Health Law (taught by Lawrence Gostin, internationally acclaimed scholar, Georgetown University), Law of Negligence, Foundations of Medical Law, Law and Human Genetics and Medical Ethics (taught by Oxford bioethicist Professor Julian Savulescu in 2011).
Director of Studies
Programs available
- Master of Health and Medical Law
- Master of Laws
- Graduate Diploma in Health and Medical Law
- Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies
Subjects in 2012
The Genetic Revolution and the Festival of Ideas
Professor Loane Skene joined other distinguished experts in a panel discussion about 'The Genetic Revolution' as part of the University of Melbourne's Festival of Ideas in June 2011. Watch the video online - (opens in new window).