Danuta Mendelson

Danuta Mendelson

Chair in Law (Research)
Professor

BA(Hons) LLB(Hons) MA LLM PhD Monash

Campus: Melbourne Burwood Campus
Phone: +61 3 924 46673
Email: danuta.mendelson@deakin.edu.au

Link to Research Output

  • Mendelson D, The New Law of Torts. 2nd ed (in press) 2010 Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780195561906
  • Mendelson D, The New Law of Torts. 2007 Oxford University Press ISBN 019 555356X
  • Mendelson D, Interfaces of Medicine and Law: The History of the Liability for Negligently Caused Psychiatric Injury (Nervous Shock), 1998 Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate/Dartmouth; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Pub. Co. (Dartmouth Medico-Legal Series); ISBN 1 85521 924 7.
  • Mendelson D, Torts Companion. 1997 Sydney: Butterworths, ISBN 0409 31259 9; Won the 1997 Australian Award (joint) for Excellence in Academic Publishing. Two more editions followed.
  • Mendelson D, Metaphor in Isaac Babel’s Short Stories. 1982 Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Ardis.
  • Mendelson D, Causation in Law and Medicine. Eds: Ian Freckelton & Danuta Mendelson, 2002 Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate/Dartmouth; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Pub. Co., (the International Library of Medicine, Ethics and Law Series), ISBN 0 7546 2204 5.
  • Mendelson D & Rees A, ‘Confidentiality, Privacy and Access to Health Records’, in Medical Law in Australia B White, F McDonald & L Willmott (Eds), 2010 Thomson Reuters Chapter 8, 301-341.
  • Mendelson D, "Torts" in Appealing to the Future: Michael Kirby His Legacy (a festschrift in honour of the Hon Mr Justice Michael Donald Kirby), I Freckelton & H Selby (Eds), 2009 Sydney: Thomson/Reuter Lawbook Co, 817-841.
  • Mendelson D, "Historical Evolution and Modern Implications of the Concepts of Consent to, and Refusal of, Medical Treatment in the Context of the Law of Trespass." (1996) in Medical Law and Ethics S McLean (Ed); The International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory (Second Series) 2002 Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing 111-183. "Editors have selected not only the most influential essays but also those, which they consider to be of greatest continuing importance."

Teaching Interests

  • Torts
  • Health Law

Research Interests

  • Torts
  • Constitutional Law
  • Medical Law
  • Legal History
  • Comparative Law

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30th January 2012