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The Gallaway Cook Allan Prize in Law and Emerging Technology
The Gallaway Cook Allan Prize in Law and Emerging Technology was established in 2018 and is open to students taking the 400- level Law and Emerging Technologies paper. Prizes are awarded for the best essays in which students are given free rein to write about the legal and regulatory issues surrounding emerging technologies. For further information, including past winners and current shortlisted essays visit the Gallaway Cook Allan website.
Honours students
- Emily Stewart “Making Babies from Skin Cells? A Legal and Ethical Analysis of In Vitro Gametogenesis” (2024)
- Emily Boyle “Justice for our Genes? The Consequentialist Case for Genetic Non-Discrimination Regulations in the NZ Life Insurance Industry” (2021)
- Mikala Wright “Patenting Pharmaceuticals? The Impact of a NZ Doctrine of Equivalents following Actavis v Eli Lily” (2021)
- Romy Wales “It Gets out the Truth: Analysing the Place of the P300 Concealed Information Test in the NZ Legal Landscape” (2020)
- Libby Hadlow “Keeping Mum: Should Doctors be able to Breach Confidentiality to Inform Patients’ Relatives of Genetic Risks?” (2019)
- Raffaele Darroch “Ex Ante Versus Ex Post: Regulating the Digital Economy” (2019)
- Grace Williams “Embryo Research in Legal Limbo: A Critique of the Legal Framework for Embryo Research in New Zealand” (2018)
- Tamara Wimsett “Brave New Genome: Gene Editing in NZ Healthcare” (2018)
- A Flaus “Familial Searches and the NZ DNA Profile Databank: The thin Edge of the Genetic Wedge?” (2013)
- Phoebe Harrop “Minority Report or Majority Safety? fMRI, Predicting Dangerousness and a Pre-Crime Future” (2013)
Postgraduate students
- Louise Wilsdon (PhD) The illusion of informational autonomy: A critique of New Zealand's regulatory framework for data privacy in an age of big data (2025)
- Fiona Seal (LLM) A Critical Analysis of Technology Law’s Gordian Knot in the NZ Context (2021)
- Pooja Mohun (LLM) Regulating Artificial Intelligence in the Finance Sector (2022)
- Curtis Barnes (LLM) Approaches to Robot Law (2017)
- Hannah Foreman (Masters of Bioethics and Health Law, MBHL) The Law and Ethical Implications of Cerebral Organoids
- Joanne Lee (LLM) The Laws of Privacy and Consent and Large Scale DNZ Biobanking in New Zealand
Postgraduate opportunities
If you are interested in postgraduate opportunities within the Centre for Law and Policy in Emerging Technologies, please contact the Faculty of Law
Email law@otago.ac.nz
Affiliated research organisations
The Centre has relationships with the following organisations:
- Bioethics Centre
- Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Public Policy (CAIPP)
- Centre for Theology and Public Issues
- Genetics Otago
- IEET – Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
- National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
- Neuroethics Network
Distinguished visitors
- John Danaher, National University of Ireland
- Stephen Price, Victoria University of Wellington
- Thomas Beagle
- Nicole Vincent, Macquarie University
- Francoise Baylis, Dalhousie University
- Russell Blackford, University of Newcastle
- Nick Agar, Victoria University of Wellington
- Jeff Matsuura, Alliance Law Group
- Andy Miah, University of the West of Scotland
- Ronald M Green, Dartmouth
- Edison Liu, Genome Institute of Singapore
- Diana Bowman, University of Melbourne
- Tom Buller, Illinois State University
- Neil Maddox, Maynooth University
- Hin-Yan Liu, University of Copenhagen