Associate Professor Belinda Bennett A SJD (Wisconsin), LLM (Wisconsin), LLB(Hons) (Macquarie), BEc (Macquarie).

Title Co-ordinator, Health Law Program, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney
Institution University of Sydney

Discipline 

Law

Expertise 

Legal and regulatory issues relating to new technologies in health care
Globalisation, biomedicine and law
Health and medical law

Research Don Rothwell and Belinda Bennett, “Globalisation and Biomedicine: The Harmonisation of Local and Global Regulatory Demands” ARC Discovery Grant funded for 2004 and 2005

Relevant Publications 

Belinda Bennett and Rosemary Lyster (eds) Reimagining the Global Space: Feminism, Globalisation and Law (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2002) (Special Issue of the Australian Feminist Law Journal).

Belinda Bennett, Law and Medicine (Law Book Co, 1997).

Belinda Bennett, “Choosing a Child’s Future? Reproductive Decision-making and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis” in Jennifer Gunning and Helen Szoke (eds) The Regulation of Assisted Reproductive Technology (Ashgate Publishing 2003), pp 167-176.

Belinda Bennett, “Women’s Health in the Global Village” in Belinda Bennett and Rosemary Lyster (eds) Reimagining the Global Space: Feminism, Globalisation and Law (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2002), pp 48-62.

Dean Bell and Belinda Bennett, “Genetic Secrets and the Family” (2001) 9 Medical Law Review 130.

Belinda Bennett, “Prenatal Diagnosis, Genetics and Reproductive Decision-making” (2001) 9 Journal of Law and Medicine 28.

Belinda Bennett, “The Human Embryo as Property? Cryopreservation and the Challenges for Law” (2000) 7(4) Journal of Law and Medicine 434.

Belinda Bennett, “Written in Code: Diversity and the New Genetics” in Michael Freeman and Andrew DE Lewis (eds) Law and Medicine: Current Legal Issues vol 3 (Oxford University Press, 2000) pp 189-203.

Belinda Bennett, “Posthumous Reproduction and the Meanings of Autonomy” (1999) 23 Melbourne University Law Review 286.

Belinda Bennett, “Gamete Donation, Reproductive Technology and the Law” in Kerry Petersen (ed) Intersections: Women on Law, Medicine and Technology (Dartmouth Publishing, 1997) pp 127-44.

Memberships Positions National Scientific Committee for the 28th Congress for the International Academy of Law and Mental Health