The Australian Centre for Health Law Research holds annual orations, which have been delivered by leading international experts in health law. Recent orations are listed below:
Professor John Coggon – Is Mental Capacity Law Law? (November 2024)
Professor Emily Jackson – Regulating Reproduction (November 2023)
Professor Emma Cave – The sufficiency of young adults’ autonomy (December 2022)
Justice Peter Applegarth and Andrew Denton – New Voluntary Assisted Dying Legislation (March 2022)
Previous annual orations
- 2020: Professor David Studdert (Standford University, US) – Firearm Violence in America
- 2019: Professor Jane Kaye (Oxford University, UK) – Digital Health, Citizens and Commercialisation
- 2018: Professor Luc Deliens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Ghent University, Belgium) – Assisted Dying and Palliative Care
- 2017: The Hon. Michael Kirby – Human Rights Meets Global Pharma
- 2016: Professor Jocelyn Downie (Dalhousie University, Canada) – Legalisation of Medical Assistance in Dying
- 2015: Professor Lawrence Gostin (Georgetown University, US) – Ebola: A Global Public Health Crisis
- 2014: Professor Julian Savulescu (Oxford University, UK) – Voluntary Palliated Starvation
- 2013: Professor Loane Skene (University of Melbourne, Australia) – Paying for donated eggs for medical research