Dr Sonia Allan PhD (Law); LLB (Hons); BA (Psych)(Hons); Grad Dip Legal Practice; GCHE; TEFL

Law

Regulation of Assisted Reproduction; Surrogacy; Legal Parentage; Research Involving Human Embryos; and Cloning;

Health and Biotechnology Law.

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

A.Boneh (MD), Sonia Allan, et al. ‘Clinical, Ethical and Legal Considerations in the Treatment of Newborns with Non-Ketotic Hyperglycinaemia’ (2008) 94(2) Molecular Genetics and Metabolism 143-147.  

S Magri, Research on Human Embryos and Cloning: Difficulties of legislating in a changing environment and model approaches to regulation, 12(4) Journal of Law and Medicine (May 2005).

S. Magri Research on Human Embryos, Cloning and the Law: One year since the passing of federal legislation: around the world and back again in 10 (4) Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, 2003 http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v10n4/magri104.html

CONFERENCE PAPERS:
S. Magri, 'From social issues to state regulation: an historical overview of Australian and New Zealand responses to assisted reproduction' (paper presented at Annual Scientific Meeting of Australian Birth Defects Society/Symposium on Embryo, fetus and newborn: from experiment to clinical practice and prevention in the Antipodes, Royal Children`s Hospital, Melbourne, 29-31 April 2005).

L. Skene and S. Magri, 'Loane Skene, Sonia Magri. Towards a consensus on cloning and stem cell research: Ethics and Public Policy' (paper presented at Stem Cell Ethics Australia, Conference November 2004, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, 8 Nov 2004).

L. Skene and S. Magri, 'Stem cells and public policy, The difficulty of legislating in a changing environment' (paper presented at 7th World Congress of Bioethics, Sydney, 10 Nov 2004., Sydney, Australia, 10 November 2004).

VICTORIAN LAW REFORM COMMISSION PUBLISHED PAPERS:
Primary Author, VLRC Position Paper 1: Access to Assisted Reproductive Technology (May 2005).

J. Seymour and S. Magri, 'ART, Surrogacy and Legal Parentage: A Comparative Legislative Review' (2004). Occasional Paper commissioned by Victorian Law Reform Commission.

The Regulation of Research Involving Human Embryos and cloning in the United Kingdom and Australia

Prof Loane Skene
Dr Christine Parker