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2010 Health and Medical Law Subjects

Advanced Civil Litigation (formerly Advanced Litigation)

Expert Evidence

Food and Drug Law

Foundations of Medical Law

Health, Development and Human Rights

Law of Negligence

Law on the Beginning and End of Life

Medical Ethics

Medical Litigation

Patient Safety and the Law

Privacy Law

Public Health Law (formerly Public Health Law in Australia and the Pacific)

Workplace Health and Safety


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 2010); the law on the beginning and end of life, guardianship and emerging technologies such as genetic testing and stem cell technology; and medical ethics (taught by Oxford bioethicist Professor Julian Savulescu in 2010).

Professor Loane Skene

Director of Studies

Professor Loane Skene

 

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