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Chris Rudge

  • Navigating the ‘regulatory quagmire’ for extracellular vesicle therapies in Australia 12 Mar 2026
  • The unexamined precursor to Robodebt 23 Jul 2025
  • Abortion Law Reform, Embryo Research, ART Regulation and Fetal Tissue Research in Australia: Some Clarifications 19 Jun 2025
  • Questions about the Abortion Law Reform Amendment (Health Care Access) Bill 2025 (NSW) 27 Feb 2025
  • The apparent rise of the sexsomnia defence in Australia: Principled criminal justice or catalyst for reform? 4 Feb 2025
  • Envisioning the risk of psychiatric injury during employment terminations: Elisha v Vision Australia Limited 28 Dec 2024
  • Promoting Cosmetic Procedures and the Duty to Warn of Risks 8 Nov 2024
  • Apportionment of Responsibility 18 Sep 2024
  • Late-career doctors: Too dangerous to diagnose patients? 7 Aug 2024
  • Recent writing: ‘SBVs’ and ‘GMOs’ 10 Jul 2024
  • Interview on genome editing and xenotransplantation 16 May 2024
  • A small injection of strictness: The TGA’s clampdown on cosmetic injectables advertising 12 May 2024
  • CRISPR’d pig kidneys for xenotransplantation 28 Mar 2024
  • A Generational Miscalculation: Unpicking Centrelink’s Unlawful Income Apportionment 22 Mar 2024
  • Will a crackdown end the botox boom? 8 Mar 2024
  • On Fidge v Pfizer [2024] FCA 161 3 Mar 2024
  • The world’s first genome-editing medicine has been approved; bioethical inquiry should continue 16 Feb 2024
  • Right now, a million Centrelink claims lie unprocessed in Australia 16 Feb 2024
  • VAD in Victoria; the thalidomide assistance scheme; sexual misconduct reforms in health care 13 Feb 2024
  • Law and Class in the Twenty-First Century (Roundtable address, La Trobe Law School) 19 Dec 2023
  • Risk regulation conference paper; the thalidomide apology; and unlawful welfare convictions 8 Dec 2023
  • Chimeric monkey sheds light on what can be done with embryonic stem cells 10 Nov 2023
  • Exa-cel on review at the FDA 6 Nov 2023
  • Updates for September: Cosmetics and COVID-19 25 Sep 2023
  • Updates on welfare law 29 Aug 2023
  • Lessons in Lawfulness: An extraordinary development in social security law 10 Aug 2023
  • What happens when doctors don’t act as they should? And what’s the ruling against neurosurgeon Charlie Teo? 15 Jul 2023
  • The Robodebt Royal Commission 9 Jul 2023
  • New book chapter on law/bioethics of somatic cell genome editing (and sickle-cell diseases) 20 Jun 2023
  • Risk-based regulation of cellular therapies in Australia 1 Jun 2023
  • New ACT Bill to protect bodily rights of intersex people 2 May 2023
  • Submission to the Inquiry into Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 21 Apr 2023
  • Radio interview about cosmetic surgery regulation 27 Mar 2023
  • Doctors may soon get official ‘endorsements’ to practise cosmetic surgery – but will that protect patients? 27 Mar 2023
  • Podcast interview: ‘Learn Me Right in Health Law and Bioethics’ 21 Feb 2023
  • Interview on Eastside FM 27 Jan 2023
  • Updates from ‘Cellular Horizons’ 19 Dec 2022
  • Two conference papers to wrap up the year 6 Dec 2022
  • Who’s the best doctor for a tummy tuck or eyelid surgery? The latest review doesn’t actually say 1 Sep 2022
  • Why a modern legal education should examine constraints on the Commonwealth’s spending power 30 Jun 2022
  • On Bernie Fraser’s avowed dispreference for academic review of the RBA 28 Jun 2022
  • On Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022) 26 Jun 2022
  • The Therapeutic Goods Administration has the power to stop misleading advertising. So why can’t it stop Craig Kelly’s texts? 10 Oct 2021
  • Mitochondrial donation law reform 4 Aug 2021
  • New substack blog: Welfare Law in Australia 24 Mar 2021
  • A Remedy for False Cures? 16 Jul 2020
  • Recent co-authored publications 17 Jun 2020
  • Launch of Philament 25—with a new website 4 Oct 2019
  • Update: MCNSW Report Completed; Articles in Progress 21 Feb 2019
  • Eliud Kipchoge’s marathon world record and the 2017 Hoogkamer/Nike study 4 Oct 2018
  • Chelmsford’s Legacy: Regulating Experimental Brain Interventions in the Public Interest 1 Jun 2018
  • A big report (in progress) and two book chapters 27 Mar 2018
  • Emotions and Device-Oriented Psychiatry in the Early Twentieth Century 8 Aug 2017
  • The Goldwater rule prevents psychiatrists diagnosing Trump from afar but some say there’s too much at stake 4 Aug 2017
  • Pain in the Brain: Worker’s Compensation Claims for CRPS-I in Australia 18 Jul 2017
  • Aldous Huxley and Neuropsychiatry 25 Apr 2017
  • Diagnosis at a Distance 1 Feb 2017
  • Capitalist Realism and Public Intellectualism 16 Jan 2017
  • Emotions and Publishing 13 Jan 2017
  • The Emotional Economy of Busywork 8 Jan 2017
  • The Nose Knows: Peter Goodrich in Critical Inquiry 6 Jan 2017
  • Researching the history of emotions 5 Jan 2017
  • Editing Philament 3 Jan 2017
  • Ancient Instincts, Modern Hardware: Paranoia, Medical Imaging and Surveillance Technics 1 Mar 2012

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