Health Law and Ethics Network
Health Law and Ethics Network (HLEN) was formally established at Melbourne Law School in 2018
The key objectives of HLEN are to promote high quality, inter-disciplinary research, teaching and engagement in health law and ethics, and to foster collaboration among scholars and clinicians across the University of Melbourne and Parkville precinct. The research facilitated by the Network is directed towards growing the scholarship, offering policy solutions to governments, informing judicial decision-making, and providing input into clinical practice guidelines.
HLEN includes researchers working across the gamut of topics in the health, law and bioethics, including reproductive health; mental health; regulation of health professionals; genomics and other emerging technologies; disability; public health; control of non-communicable diseases; neonatal intensive care; children’s surgeries; and distributive justice.
Health Law and Ethics Network (HLEN) on the COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19 and its health, economic, social and political consequences have generated important questions for health law and ethics. Through their research, teaching and service to the public, members of the Health Law and Ethics Network at Melbourne Law School are offering informed, insightful and innovative responses to these legal, ethical and policy challenges.
COVID-19 and its health, economic, social and political consequences have generated important questions for health law and ethics. Through their research, teaching and service to the public, members of the Health Law and Ethics Network at Melbourne Law School are offering informed, insightful and innovative responses to these legal, ethical and policy challenges.
Find out more about how Melbourne Law School legal experts are responding to the resulting legal, ethical and policy challenges
Law in the time of COVID-19
Directors
Consultative Group
Melbourne Law School Staff
Graduate Researchers
Members of the Health Law and Ethics Network produce high quality research on a wide range of topics in the health law and ethics field. The topic areas below represent their major expertise and interests, around which members collaborate with each other and researchers in Australia and overseas on projects, publications, grants and conferences.
There is an extensive suite of study options in health law and ethics at Melbourne Law School. These include subjects offered at the JD level, a world-class specialist Health and Medical Law Masters, and the opportunity for doctoral study.
In their studies at Melbourne Law School, students engage with cutting-edge issues in health law and ethics, taught by leaders in the field from Australia and overseas. The learning experience of students is enhanced by our deep connections with lawyers working in health law in private practice and health professionals from the public and private sectors.
Juris Doctor
Subjects which may be offered include:
- Health Law and Ethics (Not available in 2023)
- Creating Life: Law & Ethics (Legal Research)
- Doctors’ Duties, Patients’ Choices (Legal Research)
Breadth
Subjects which may be offered for undergraduate degrees include:
Masters of Health and Medical Law
Graduate Diploma of Health and Medical Law
The is Health and Medical Law Specialisation in the Melbourne Law Masters open to lawyers and to health professionals and administrators (with no prior legal qualification).
Subjects which may be offered include:
- Comparative Health Law
- Global Health Law
- Global Health, Trade and Investment Law
- Health Data Governance
- Health Law and Human Rights
- Health Law: Patient Safety and the Law
- Institutional Abuse and Legal Redress
- Law and Emerging Technologies
- Medical Ethics
- Medical Litigation
- Mental Health and Disability Law
- Public Health Law
- Regulation of Health Practitioners: Accountability and Enforcement
For more details, please visit the degree page on the Melbourne Law Masters website.
Health Law and Ethics Network hosts a series of lunchtime seminars and events throughout the year with researchers from the University of Melbourne, external collaborators, and visitors from around the world on a wide variety of health law and ethics issues.
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HLEN Monthly Seminars
HLEN hosts monthly lunchtime seminars on topics of current interest and controversy in health law and ethics with researchers from the University of Melbourne and external collaborators. Each seminar consists of two complementary presentations and collegial discussion.
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HLEN Forthcoming Events
HLEN hosts seminars throughout the year with University of Melbourne researchers and visitors from around the world on a wide variety of health law and ethics issues.
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HLEN Past Events
HLEN hosted a series of seminars and events.