Professor Margaret Otlowski
Margaret Otlowski is Professor in the Faculty of
Law at the University of Tasmania. Her main research interest is
in the area of medical law and ethics.
Over recent years her research has focused on issues
of discrimination and privacy arising out of the new genetic technologies
and she has published extensively in this area.
Margaret has longstanding experience in law and
bioethics, having acted as consultant to the former National Bioethics
Consultative Committee and been on a number of State working parties
to examine various health law issues.
She has also served on various Commonwealth and
State tribunals, including her current membership on the Tasmanian
Anti-Discrimination Tribunal. For many years she has served as Chair
of the University of Tasmania's Human Research Ethics Committee
and more recently, of the new statewide Human Research Ethics Committee
in Tasmania.
Margaret is currently Deputy Director of the Centre
for Law and Genetics, jointly established by the Law Faculties of
the Universities of Tasmania and Melbourne.
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