Dr Penny Gleeson

Dr Penny Gleeson has published on the regulation of drugs and new medical technologies. Her PhD thesis examined the political legitimacy of the regulation of therapeutic goods, with a particular focus on medicinal cannabis, medical abortion and mesh devices. Penny has spoken on these topics at domestic and international conferences.

Penny teaches in the JD and LLB programs at Deakin Law School in the areas of tort law and misleading conduct. She regularly contributes to postgraduate teaching programs in health and law.

• Deakin Law School - Lecturer
   
• Melbourne Law School - Principal Research Fellow (Genomics Project)
   
• Melbourne School of Government - Subject Coordinator
   
• University of Melbourne, Medicine and Dentistry Human Ethics Sub-Committee - Legal Member

• Department of Health & Human Services, Victorian Genetics and Genomics Advisory Committee - Member
   
• Vincent Fairfax Fellowship, Cranlana Centre for Ethical Leadership - Coach
   
• Department of Premier and Cabinet (Victoria) - Director, Legal (General Counsel)
   
• Federal Court of Australia - Associate to the Hon. Chief Justice M.E. Black
   
• Solicitor - Ashurst

Public Health Law

Regulatory Theory, Policy and Practice

Public Law and Policy

Ethics

Health Technologies

European Consortium for Political Research, Standing Group on Regulatory Governance - Member

Australasian Law Academics Association - Member

Science and Democracy Network - Member

Tort Law

Misleading Conduct

Health Law

Public Law

MLL117 - Misleading Conduct and Economic Torts

Public Health Law

Regulatory Theory, Policy and Practice

New Medical Technologies

Public Law and Policy

Legislative Reform

Ethics

• ‘Regulation, Legitimacy and Values – The Regulation of Controversial Medical Products’, public lecture, Melbourne School of Government, The University of Melbourne, June 2020

• 'The Challenge of Medicinal Cannabis to Therapeutic Goods Regulation in Australia’, Unpacking the Complexity of Regulatory Governance in a Globalising World, Chinese University of Hong Kong (with the European Consortium for Political Research Standing Group on Regulatory Governance), July 2019

• 'The Challenge of Medicinal Cannabis to the Political Legitimacy of Medicines Regulation: Lessons from Australia’, European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics Annual Conference 2019, University of Oxford (organised by the Ethox Centre and Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities), September 2019

• 'Governance of Genomic Repositories: Perceptions’, Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance Symposium, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, 2016

• 'Medical Innovation and the Role of the State’, 2nd International Conference on Public Policy, Catholic University of Milan (organised by the International Public Policy Association), 2015

• Student Published Research Prize (Graduate Research), Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne

• Doctoral Academy, Networked Society Institute, the University of Melbourne

• Australian Postgraduate Award / Research Training Program Scholarship, Australian Government

• Britain Australia Bicentennial Trust Cambridge Scholarship, Cambridge Commonwealth Trust