Jenni Millbank
Speaker 1: | Jenni, your current project's an ARC project around cross boarder uses of ART. Do you want to tell me a little about that?
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Speaker 2: | Yes, so the project is called Regulating Relations. It's a four year grant to explore the empirical experience of Australians moving into and out of regulated treatment, including cross boarder treatment, domestically and abroad. That's with my colleagues Anita Stuhmcke and Isabel Karpin.
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Speaker 1: | The aim there is, obviously, to understand what's happening. There's this huge need, but also, I suppose, to influence the conversation that happens both here and maybe even internationally.
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Speaker 2: | Yes, so our stated aim in the project is to understand people's motivations and experiences in that trouble so that we can make domestic regulated treatment more responsive and more inclusive to Australian patients' needs.
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Professor Millbank is a leading international expert on gender, health and law, an is Director of the Law Health Justice research group. Her research reaches across family, reproduction and human rights law making a distinctive contribution to broadening legal understandings of family and developing new approaches to relationships in law. Many of her recommendations for law reform concerning family relationships and reproductive rights have been implemented in Australia and elsewhere in the past decade. She has also been at the forefront of developing international thinking concerning gender based persecution, working with UNHCR and others in policy development and litigation to ensure equitable treatment in refugee status determinations for women and those fleeing violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Professor Millbank’s socio-legal scholarship reflects her on-going commitment to developing laws that reflect and adapt to social needs through research that is empirically based, responsive to community concerns, and practical in application.