Navigating the ‘regulatory quagmire’ for extracellular vesicle therapies in Australia
Welcome to Cells and Statutes, where sociolegal scholar Christopher Rudge writes about law, welfare, emotions, drugs, economics and more. Feel free to read more about my professional background, review my research outputs or current projects, or peruse my media appearances.
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Navigating the ‘regulatory quagmire’ for extracellular vesicle therapies in Australia
The unexamined precursor to Robodebt
Abortion Law Reform, Embryo Research, ART Regulation and Fetal Tissue Research in Australia: Some Clarifications
Questions about the Abortion Law Reform Amendment (Health Care Access) Bill 2025 (NSW)
Browsing Topic:
Bioethics
New book chapter on law/bioethics of somatic cell genome editing (and sickle-cell diseases)
Chimeric monkey sheds light on what can be done with embryonic stem cells
The world’s first genome-editing medicine has been approved; bioethical inquiry should continue
Abortion Law Reform, Embryo Research, ART Regulation and Fetal Tissue Research in Australia: Some Clarifications
Archive:
64 posts from 2012–2026
- Navigating the ‘regulatory quagmire’ for extracellular vesicle therapies in Australia
- The unexamined precursor to Robodebt
- Abortion Law Reform, Embryo Research, ART Regulation and Fetal Tissue Research in Australia: Some Clarifications
- Questions about the Abortion Law Reform Amendment (Health Care Access) Bill 2025 (NSW)
- The apparent rise of the sexsomnia defence in Australia: Principled criminal justice or catalyst for reform?
- Envisioning the risk of psychiatric injury during employment terminations: Elisha v Vision Australia Limited
- Promoting Cosmetic Procedures and the Duty to Warn of Risks
- Apportionment of Responsibility
- Late-career doctors: Too dangerous to diagnose patients?
- Recent writing: ‘SBVs’ and ‘GMOs’
- Interview on genome editing and xenotransplantation
- A small injection of strictness: The TGA’s clampdown on cosmetic injectables advertising
- CRISPR’d pig kidneys for xenotransplantation
- A Generational Miscalculation: Unpicking Centrelink’s Unlawful Income Apportionment
- Will a crackdown end the botox boom?
- On Fidge v Pfizer [2024] FCA 161
- The world’s first genome-editing medicine has been approved; bioethical inquiry should continue
- Right now, a million Centrelink claims lie unprocessed in Australia
- VAD in Victoria; the thalidomide assistance scheme; sexual misconduct reforms in health care
- Law and Class in the Twenty-First Century (Roundtable address, La Trobe Law School)
- Risk regulation conference paper; the thalidomide apology; and unlawful welfare convictions
- Chimeric monkey sheds light on what can be done with embryonic stem cells
- Exa-cel on review at the FDA
- Updates for September: Cosmetics and COVID-19
- Updates on welfare law
- Lessons in Lawfulness: An extraordinary development in social security law
- What happens when doctors don’t act as they should? And what’s the ruling against neurosurgeon Charlie Teo?
- The Robodebt Royal Commission
- New book chapter on law/bioethics of somatic cell genome editing (and sickle-cell diseases)
- Risk-based regulation of cellular therapies in Australia
- New ACT Bill to protect bodily rights of intersex people
- Submission to the Inquiry into Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023
- Radio interview about cosmetic surgery regulation
- Doctors may soon get official ‘endorsements’ to practise cosmetic surgery – but will that protect patients?
- Podcast interview: ‘Learn Me Right in Health Law and Bioethics’
- Interview on Eastside FM
- Updates from ‘Cellular Horizons’
- Two conference papers to wrap up the year
- Who’s the best doctor for a tummy tuck or eyelid surgery? The latest review doesn’t actually say
- Why a modern legal education should examine constraints on the Commonwealth’s spending power
- On Bernie Fraser’s avowed dispreference for academic review of the RBA
- On Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022)
- The Therapeutic Goods Administration has the power to stop misleading advertising. So why can’t it stop Craig Kelly’s texts?
- Mitochondrial donation law reform
- New substack blog: Welfare Law in Australia
- A Remedy for False Cures?
- Recent co-authored publications
- Launch of Philament 25—with a new website
- Update: MCNSW Report Completed; Articles in Progress
- Eliud Kipchoge’s marathon world record and the 2017 Hoogkamer/Nike study
- Chelmsford’s Legacy: Regulating Experimental Brain Interventions in the Public Interest
- A big report (in progress) and two book chapters
- Emotions and Device-Oriented Psychiatry in the Early Twentieth Century
- The Goldwater rule prevents psychiatrists diagnosing Trump from afar but some say there’s too much at stake
- Pain in the Brain: Worker’s Compensation Claims for CRPS-I in Australia
- Aldous Huxley and Neuropsychiatry
- Diagnosis at a Distance
- Capitalist Realism and Public Intellectualism
- Emotions and Publishing
- The Emotional Economy of Busywork
- The Nose Knows: Peter Goodrich in Critical Inquiry
- Researching the history of emotions
- Editing Philament
- Ancient Instincts, Modern Hardware: Paranoia, Medical Imaging and Surveillance Technics