Prof Margaret Otlowski

Prof. Margaret is Professor of Law at the University of Tasmania (formerly Law Dean 2010-2017) and Director of the Centre for Law and Genetics. Her research expertise is in health law and ethics with particular focus on voluntary assisted dying and legal and ethical issues in the area of genomics. She has been engaged by Commonwealth and State governments and agencies as consultant and member for various committees and working parties including for the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Australian Research Integrity Committee. She has also had extensive tribunal experience including with the Tasmanian Guardianship and Administration Board and the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Tribunal and is currently a member of the Tasmanian Voluntary Assisted Dying Commission. She has been chief investigator on numerous funded collaborative research projects focusing primarily on law and genetics and issues of regulation, privacy, consent, discrimination and data sharing. Margaret was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law in 2015 and appointed as Patron of Tasmanian Women Lawyers in 2018.