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Dr Christopher Rudge is a sociolegal scholar and lecturer at Sydney Law School, where he is deputy director of Sydney Health Law. His primary research topics are human health and welfare law.

Rudge's research publications have examined critical issues in therapeutic goods regulation (eg, vaccine regulation), health practitioner law (eg, duties of care and medical negligence), mental health law (eg, psychiatric injury) and health technology law. Rudge's research extends to social welfare law, tort law, theories of criminal responsibility and health information and privacy law.

Rudge is trained in social science (biopolitics and psychopolitics) and law, holding a BA (Hons) and LLB (Hons). His PhD (2010–2014) presented a sociological and literary history of psychopathology.

Rudge was previously (2021) postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Tasmania's Centre for Law and Genetics, supervised by Distinguished Emerita Professor Dianne Nicol, former Chair of the NHMRC Embryo Licensing Committee. Rudge was part of a team of researchers that conducted the first citizens' jury on genome editing in the world, which developed legislative policy options for the future of genome editing in Australia.

In 2019, Rudge was postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Melbourne in the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience (now the Department of Anatomy and Physiology) in the School of Biomedical Sciences. Supervised by Professor Megan Munsie, Rudge investigated the regulation and governance of autologous stem cell therapies in Australia and globally.

In 2018, Rudge conducted a major review of the scope of disciplinary powers exercisable by the NSW medical regulator under the relevant health practitioner law.

Rudge is production editor of the Australasian Journal of American Studies, an associate editor of Current Issues in Criminal Justice, and an editorial board member of the Sydney Law Review. Rudge maintains a blog on current legal issues in social security and welfare law with Dr Darren O'Donovan (La Trobe University Law School) at

More about Rudge and his work is available at his website at

Experience

• 2022–present Lecturer (Law), University of Sydney Law School
• 2020–2022 Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Community response to Genome Editing), Centre for Law and Genetics, University of Tasmania Law School
• 2019–2020 Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Ethics, Law and Social Implications of Stem Cell Science), Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Science, Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University of Melbourne
• 2017–2019 Research Associate, University of Sydney Law School
• 2018–2019 Research Officer, Medical Council of NSW

Education

• 2017 College of Law, Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
• 2015 University of Sydney, PhD
• 2008 University of Sydney, LLB
• 2006 University of Sydney, BA (Hons 1)

Grants and Contracts

• 2021 Improving decisions about access to stem cell interventions Role: Chief investigator Funding Source: Medical Research Future Fund Stem Cell Therapies Mission
• 2017 Short-term Project to Publication Fellowship Role: Funding Source: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions

Professional Memberships

• Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
• Biopolitics of Science Reserarch Network
• Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law

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