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Amy Thomasson

(she/her)
Associate Lecturer of Law, The University of Western Australia

Amy is an Associate Lecturer at the UWA Law School, teaching Law for Everyday Lives and Family Law. She was previously an Associate at the Supreme Court of Western Australia - Court of Appeal and practised as a family lawyer. Amy has extensive research experience in health law & policy (including public health and reproductive technology).

As well as teaching at UWA, Amy is involved in the legal stream of the Mandate Evaluation (MandEval) project, funded by the Medical Research Future Fund. MandEval is an interdisciplinary research project which aims to guide policy for future pandemic preparedness and routine adult and childhood immunisation programs.

Experience

  • –present
    Associate Lecturer, The University of Western Australia

Education

  • 2022 
    College of Law, Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice
  • 2021 
    University of Western Australia, Juris Doctor
  • 2017 
    University of Western Australia, Bachelor of Arts

Publications

  • 2022
    Inferring Necessary Conditions: The Enduring Paradox of the 'But For' Test in Factual Causation, UWA Law Review
  • 2021
    Consent in Posthumous Reproduction: Giving the Deceased a Voice without Drowning out the Living in Cases of Unexpected Death, UWA Law Review