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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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