Judie Lancaster

Senior Lecturer

BA, LLB (Hons I) (Macq), M.Bioeth (UTS), RN (UK and NSW), GradCert H.Ed (UTS), GradDipLegPrac (UTS), Solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW

Academic Profile

Judith Lancaster has cross-disciplinary qualifications in both Law and Nursing. She joined the Faculty in 1994, following earlier careers in health care practice as a medical public relations consultant and as a registered nurse.

Judith is currently undertaking PhD study at the UNSW Centre for Clinical Governance Research in Health on an APAI scholarship awarded in 2005 and teaching in the Faculty as a temporary part-time academic. Judith has served as Director, Cross-Disciplinary Programs, Faculty of Law 2004- 2006. She jointly co-ordinates and teaches the subject, Business Law & Ethics. Judith was awarded a UTS Excellence in Teaching Award (Individual category) 2001 and (Team category) 2002. In 2007, Judith was appointed Vice President Australia & New Zealand Service Region ooi Consortium for Teaching, Research, Learning and Development (U.S.A.), a non-profit professional academic global organization. She has served as Convenor for the ALTA Law in Non-Law Schools (2004) and the Law and Medicine (2005) Interest Groups. She has also been a member of committees/working parties reporting to the NSW Attorney General's Legal Profession Advisory Council reviewing 'conflict-of-interest' law and practice (2004) and strategies for communication skills development for legal practitioners (2005).

Research Interests:

2003 - 2006:
Biotechnoloogy, Health Law, Biogenetics and Bioethics
Business Law and Ethics
Child Protection
Legal Education

Current Research Activities

PhD study at the UNSW Centre for Clinical Governance Research in Health (APAI scholarship awarded in 2005)

Publications

Lancaster, J., Braithwaite, J and Greenfield, D., "Benefits of participating in accreditation surveying" International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, in press, 2009.

DeJong, P.F.,Lancaster, J.A., Palaez, P., Munoz, J.M. "Examination of correlates of ethical propensities and ethical intentions in the United States, Australia and the Philippines: A managerial perspective" International Journal of Management, Jun 2008, Vol. 25 Issue 2, p270-278.

"Crossing borders: negotiating the complexities of an academic career path" Australian Law Teachers Association 61st Annual Conference Refereed Papers, Victoria University, Melbourne, 2006

Lancaster J & Meltz D, Business Law and Ethics, Pearson Education Australia, 2006, ISBN 10: 0-7339-8054-6.

Lancaster J & Meltz D, Business Law and Ethics: A companion to Turner Australian Commercial Law, 26th ed, 2005, Thomson Publications ISBN: 0-455-22094-8.

"Complementary Medicine and the law: The medico-legal academic", Journal of Complementary Medicine, March/April 2(2) 2003, 47-50.

Adams, Barker & Lancaster; J "Business Law and Ethics - Does it have a  future?" E-Law Journal vol 9 No 3 (Sept 2002)

"Legal and ethical aspects of complementary therapies and complementary care", Complementary Therapy in Nursing and Midwifery: from vision to practice, P McCabe  (ed), Ausmed Publications, Melb, (2001) ISBN 0 9577988 1 4.

"Who benefits from the equalising of age of consent provisions? A critical analysis of the Wood Royal Commission Paedophile Inquiry recommendation for a lower minimum age of consent", Children Australia, Vol 26, No.1, 2001.

"In favour of an integrated approach to the teaching of ethics to business law students", UTS Law Review, 2001, 3, 174-180.

"The brave new world of organ transplantation", 2^nd National Conference, Ausmed Publications 2001.  

R Lane, C Hamilton, & J Lancaster,  "Medication containers and the law", Journal of Quality in Clinical Practice, December 1999, 19, 4, 223-224

R Lane, J Lancaster, & C Hamilton, "Child-resistant containers and the law", Australian Journal of Pharmacy, September 1996; 77, No 918, 896. 

"Who's responsible?: Some legal ramifications of the de-institutionalisation of health care",. Australian Pharmacist, July 1996; 15, No.6, 341-343

Lancaster J, The Modernisation of Legal Education: A Critique of the Martin, Bowen and Pearce Reports, Centre for Legal Education, Sydney, (1994)  ISBN 0 646 14688 2.

"Look what they've done to Higher Education: Reflections of a Graduate", Crossexaminer, Autumn 1992; 1, No. 1, 6-8.

Conference Papers

"Beyond Accreditation: the benefits of surveying and influence of surveyors on quality improvement initiatives and preparation for accreditation" School of Public Health and Community Medicine 6th Annual Research Student Conference, UNSW, November 2008.

"Crossing borders: negotiating the complexities of an academic career path" Australian Law Teachers Association 61st Annual Conference Refereed Papers, Victoria University, Melbourne, 2006.

"Teaching preventative law to cross-disciplinary students", ALTA. Conference, Darwin, July 2004.

Europe Asia Medico-Legal Conference, Praiano, Italy (2003)

Hawaiian International Faculty Student Conferences (2003 and 2004)

Australasian Law Teachers Legal Academic Job Network issues speaker with Professor Michael Coper, Dean of Law ANU and Professor Rosalind Croucher , Dean of Law, Macquarie University, ALTA Conference, Melbourne, July 2006

Group speaker at the UTS Teaching and Learning Forum on Practice and Problem based learning: Teaching preventative law to cross-disciplinary students, 3 December 2004.

Royal Hospital for Women's Centenary Scientific Meeting 2004, 20 October 2004

The proactive v reactive The proactive v reactive approach: teaching preventative law to cross-disciplinary students, Faculty Seminar 14 October 2004.

Melbourne Upskills Day for Pharmacists and Medical Practitioners, Saturday 11 October 2003.

Sydney Upskills Day for Pharmacists and Medical Practitioners, Saturday 20 September 2003.

Complementary Therapies Seminar, Royal Hospital for Women, Randwick, 8 August 2003.

Evidence Based Complementary and Alternative Therapies Seminar and Workshop, Perth, March 2003.

Newspaper Reports

"New clash over health care costs" Inner West Sydney Courier, 13 April 2004

"Students profit from prevention" Business, Law and Economics: Higher Education Special Supplement in The Australian, 10 -11 November, 2004

ADDITIONAL Publications & Conference Papers (PDF)