Professor Cameron Stewart
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Professor Cameron Stewart

BEc LLB (Hons) (Macquarie) GradDipJur GradDipLegalPrac (College of Law) PhD (Sydney), FACLM (Hon)
Professor of Health, Law and Ethics
Phone
+61 2 9351 0250
Address
F10 - Law School (Camperdown)
The University of Sydney
Professor Cameron Stewart

Professor Cameron Stewart is a member of Sydney Health Law and an associate member of Sydney Health Law, Sydney Medical School. He has degrees in economics, law and jurisprudence. He has worked in the Supreme Court of New South Wales and has practiced commercial law at Phillips Fox Lawyers. His previous appointment was at Macquarie Law School, where he spent 10 years, the last of which as Dean. He was the Director of CHGLE for 4 years (2009-2012), was the Acting President of the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Health Law and Ethics in 2008-2010 and was the Vice-President of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law from 2010-2013. Cameron is also an Honorary Fellow of the Australian College of Legal Medicine and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.

  • Health Law
  • Ethics
  • Property and Equity
  • Guardianship Law
  • End-of-Life Decision-making
  • Human Tissue Regulation
  • Introduction to Property and Commercial Law
  • Real Property
  • Equity
  • Introduction to Law for the Health Professions
  • Government Regulation, Health Policy and Ethics
  • Health Care and Professional Liability
  • Death Law
  • National Health and Medical Research Ideas Grant. GNT1181401. Lipworth W, Karpin I, Stewart C, Waldby C. Addressing Commercial Influences on Assisted Reproductive Technology. 2019–2022. AUD $789,576.
  • Australian Research Council Discovery Project. DP180101262. Nicol D, Nielsen J, Stewart C. Reforming the regulatory environment for innovative health technologies. 2018–2021. AUD $628,576.
  • Admitted as Legal Practitioner of the Supreme Court of New South Wales 1997
  • Admitted as Solicitor and Barrister of the High Court of Australia 1997
  • Honorary Fellow, Australian College of Legal Medicine 2004
  • Acting President of the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Health Law and Ethics 2008-2010
  • Vice President, Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law 2010
  • Fellow of the Australian College of Law 2020
Project titleResearch student
Doctoring and Deviant Evidence - Regulatory Oversight of Orthopaedic Expert Evidence in New South WalesJack CRAIG
Making Data Work for Us The Ethical and Legal Implications of Using Data for Reflective Practice in HealthcareKavisha SHAH

Publications

Books

  • Radan, P., Stewart, C. (2024). Principles of Australian Equity and Trusts - 6th edition. Chatswood: LexisNexis. [More Information]
  • Radan, P., Stewart, C. (2024). Principles of Australian Equity and Trusts: Cases and Materials - 6th edition. Chatswood: LexisNexis. [More Information]
  • Radan, P., Stewart, C. (2021). Principles of Australian Equity and Trusts - 5th edition. Sydney, NSW: LexisNexis.

Edited Books

  • Sung, J., Stewart, C. (2024). Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: From Ethical, Social, and Legal Perspectives. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science. [More Information]

Book Chapters

  • Lysaght, T., Xafis, V., Stewart, C. (2024). Respect for Persons. In Sung, J.Y., Stewart, C. (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: From Ethical, Social, and Legal Perspectives, (pp. 27-44). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science. [More Information]
  • Stewart, C. (2023). Capacity, Participation and Values in Australian Guardianship Laws. In Camillia Kong, John Coggon, Penny Cooper, Michael Dunn and Alex Ruck Keene (Eds.), Capacity, Participation and Values in Comparative Legal Perspective, (pp. 120-142). Bristol: Bristol University Press.
  • Stewart, C., Kerridge, I. (2023). Infectious Disease Governance in Australia and the Problem of Complex Systems. In Belinda Bennett, Ian Freckelton (Eds.), Australian Public Health Law: Contemporary Issues and Challenges, (pp. 260-284). Sydney: The Federation Press.

Journals

  • Cameron, J., Stewart, C., Savulescu, J. (2025). End-of-life decisions and the need for greater rigour in the determination of a child's best interests. Journal of Law and Medicine, 31(4), 699-708.
  • Attinger, S., Jackson, E., Karpin, I., Kerridge, I., Newson, A., Stewart, C., van de Wiel, L., Lipworth, W. (2024). Addressing the consequences of the corporatization of reproductive medicine. Medical Law Review, 32, 444-457. [More Information]
  • Smith, A., Stewart, C. (2024). Ethical considerations in dermatology – musings from the city to surf. The Medico-Legal Journal, 92(2), 112.

Magazine / Newspaper Articles

  • Rudge, C., Stewart, C. (2023). Thinking about cosmetic surgery? At last, some clarity on who can call themselves a surgeon. The Conversation.
  • Rudge, C., Stewart, C. (2022). Who's the best doctor for a tummy tuck or eyelid surgery? The Conversation.

Report

  • Stewart, C. (2001). Public Interests and the Right to Die: Compelling reasons for overriding the right to refuse treatment.

2025

  • Cameron, J., Stewart, C., Savulescu, J. (2025). End-of-life decisions and the need for greater rigour in the determination of a child's best interests. Journal of Law and Medicine, 31(4), 699-708.

2024

  • Attinger, S., Jackson, E., Karpin, I., Kerridge, I., Newson, A., Stewart, C., van de Wiel, L., Lipworth, W. (2024). Addressing the consequences of the corporatization of reproductive medicine. Medical Law Review, 32, 444-457. [More Information]
  • Sung, J., Stewart, C. (2024). Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: From Ethical, Social, and Legal Perspectives. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science. [More Information]
  • Smith, A., Stewart, C. (2024). Ethical considerations in dermatology – musings from the city to surf. The Medico-Legal Journal, 92(2), 112.

2023

  • Stewart, C. (2023). Capacity, Participation and Values in Australian Guardianship Laws. In Camillia Kong, John Coggon, Penny Cooper, Michael Dunn and Alex Ruck Keene (Eds.), Capacity, Participation and Values in Comparative Legal Perspective, (pp. 120-142). Bristol: Bristol University Press.
  • Kerridge, I., Stewart, C., Scully, J., Chiarella, M., Hamblin, J., Johnson, A., Ryan, C., Sheahan, L., Skowronski, G. (2023). Conscientious and Institutional Objection to Voluntary Assistance in Dying: An Ethico-Legal Critique. Journal of Law and Medicine, 30(4), 806-821.
  • Pham, J., Allen, N., Star, P., Cust, A., Stewart, C., Guitera, P., Marghoob, A., Smith, A. (2023). Full-body skin examination in screening for cutaneous malignancy: a focus on concealed sites and the practices of Australian dermatologists. International Journal Of Dermatology, 63(4), 467-473. [More Information]

2022

  • Rudge, C., Attinger, S., Kerridge, I., Lipworth, W., Stewart, C. (2022). A New Priority Pathway for Biologicals in Australia: Contextualising and Evaluating the Proposed Reforms. Journal of Law and Medicine, 29, 677-699.
  • Eckstein, L., McWhirter, R., Stewart, C. (2022). Better Mechanisms Are Needed to Oversee HREC Reviews. Public Health Ethics, 15(2), 200-203. [More Information]
  • O'Leary, M., Skowronski, G., Critchley, C., O'Reilly, L., Forlini, C., Sheahan, L., Stewart, C., Kerridge, I. (2022). Death Determination, Organ Donation and the Importance of the Dead Donor Rule Following Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment: A Survey of Community Opinions. Internal Medicine Journal, 52(2), 238-248. [More Information]

2021

  • Then, S., Lipworth, W., Stewart, C., Kerridge, I. (2021). A Framework for Ethics Review of Applications to Store, Reuse and Share Tissue Samples. Monash Bioethics Review, 39(1), 115-124. [More Information]
  • Skowronski, G., Ramnani, A., Walton-Sonda, D., Forlini, C., O'Leary, M., O'Reilly, L., Sheahan, L., Stewart, C., Kerridge, I. (2021). A scoping review of the perceptions of death in the context of organ donation and transplantation. BMC Medical Ethics, 22, 1-20. [More Information]
  • Nielsen, J., Kaldor, J., Irwin, A., Stewart, C., Nicol, D. (2021). Bespoke regulation for bespoke medicine? A comparative analysis of bioprinting regulation in Europe, the USA and Australia. Journal of 3D Printing in Medicine, 5(3), 155-167. [More Information]

2020

  • Sung, J., Stewart, C., Freedman, B. (2020). Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Preparing for the Fifth Industrial Revolution. Medical Journal of Australia, 213(6), 253-255. [More Information]
  • Ghinea, N., Munsie, M., Rudge, C., Stewart, C. (2020). Australian regulation of autologous human cell and tissue products: implications for commercial stem cell clinics. Regenerative Medicine, 15(2), 1361-1369. [More Information]
  • Stewart, C., Kerridge, I., O'Reilly, L., Sheahan, L., Tomossy, G., Skowronski, G. (2020). Brain Death and Pregnancy: On the Legalities of Post-Mortem Gestation. Journal of Law and Medicine, 28(1), 75-89.

2019

  • Sinclair, C., Gersbach, K., Hogan, M., Blake, M., Bucks, R., Auret, K., Clayton, J., Stewart, C., Field, S., Radoslovich, H., Agar, M., Kurrle, S., et al (2019). "A Real Bucket of Worms": Views of People Living with Dementia and Family Members on Supported Decision-Making. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 16, 587-608. [More Information]
  • Holden, A., Stewart, C. (2019). A review of the law of consent in dentistry. Australian Dental Journal, 64(3), 208-212. [More Information]
  • Xafis, V., Schaefer, G., Labude, M., Brassington, I., Ballantyne, A., Lim, H., Lipworth, W., Lysaght, T., Stewart, C., Sun, S., et al (2019). An Ethics Framework for Big Data in Health and Research. Asian Bioethics Review, 11, 227-254. [More Information]

2018

  • Lysaght, T., Munsie, M., Castricum, A., Hui, J., Okada, K., Sato, Y., Sawa, Y., Stewart, C., Tan, L., Tan, L., et al (2018). A roundtable on responsible innovation with autologous stem cells in Australia, Japan and Singapore. Cytotherapy, 20(9), 1103-1109. [More Information]
  • Stewart, C. (2018). Advance Care Directives. In Sue Field, Karen Williams, Carolyn Sappideen (Eds.), Elder Law: A Guide to Working with Older Australians, (pp. 69-95). Leichhardt: The Federation Press.
  • Stewart, C. (2018). Euthanasia, Suicide and Assisted Dying. In Ben White, Fiona McDonald and Lindy Willmott (Eds.), Health Law in Australia Third Edition, (pp. 525-570). Sydney: Thomson Reuters.

2017

  • Stewart, C. (2017). Cracks in the Lintel of Consent. In Ian Freckelton, Kerry Petersen (Eds.), Tensions and Traumas in Health Law, (pp. 214-233). Leichhardt: Federation Press.
  • Munsie, M., Lysaght, T., Hendl, T., Tan, H., Kerridge, I., Stewart, C. (2017). Open for business: a comparative study of websites selling autologous stem cells in Australia and Japan. Regenerative Medicine, 12(7), 777-790. [More Information]
  • Lee, T., Lysaght, T., Lipworth, W., Hendl, T., Kerridge, I., Munsie, M., Stewart, C. (2017). Regulating the stem cell industry: needs and responsibilities. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 95(9), 663-664. [More Information]

2016

  • Kidson-Gerber, G., Kerridge, I., Farmer, S., Stewart, C., Savoia, H., Challis, D. (2016). Caring for pregnant women for whom transfusion is not an option. A national review to assist in patient care. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 56(2), 127-136. [More Information]
  • Scanlan, C., Stewart, C., Kerridge, I. (2016). Decision Making in the Shadow of Death. The American Journal of Bioethics, 16(5), 23-24. [More Information]
  • Lamont, S., Stewart, C., Chiarella, M. (2016). Decision-making capacity and its relationship to a legally valid consent: ethical, legal and professional context. Journal of Law and Medicine, 24, 371-386.

2015

  • Fleming, J., Critchley, C., Otlowski, M., Stewart, C., Kerridge, I. (2015). Attitudes of the general public towards the disclosure of individual research results and incidental findings from biobank genomic research in Australia. Internal Medicine Journal, 45(12), 1274-1279. [More Information]
  • Degeling, C., Johnson, A., Kerridge, I., Wilson, A., Ward, M., Stewart, C., Gilbert, G. (2015). Implementing a One Health approach to emerging infectious disease: reflections on the socio-political, ethical and legal dimensions. BMC Public Health, 15(1307), 1-11. [More Information]
  • Doran, E., Fleming, J., Jordens, C., Stewart, C., Letts, J., Kerridge, I. (2015). Managing ethical issues in patient care and the need for clinical ethics support. Australian Health Review, 39(1), 44-50. [More Information]

2014

  • Jammal, W., Stewart, C., Parker, M. (2014). "CAM-creep": Medical practitioners, professional discipline and integrative medicine. Journal of Law and Medicine, 22(1), 221-232.
  • Stewart, C. (2014). Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. In Ben White, Fiona McDonald, Lindy Willmott (Eds.), Health Law in Australia - 2nd Edition, (pp. 505-542). Sydney, Australia: Thomson Reuters.
  • Jordens, C., Kerridge, I., Stewart, C., O'Brien, T., Samuel, G., Porter, E., O'Connor, M., Nassar, N. (2014). Knowledge, Beliefs, and Decisions of Pregnant Australian Women Concerning Donation and Storage of Umbilical Cord Blood: A Population-Based Survey. Birth, 41(4), 360-366. [More Information]

2013

  • Bendorf, A., Kelly, P., Kerridge, I., McCaughan, G., Myerson, B., Stewart, C., Pussell, B. (2013). An International Comparison of the Effect of Policy Shifts to Organ Donation following Cardiocirculatory Death (DCD) on Donation Rates after Brain Death (DBD) and Transplantation Rates. PloS One, 8(5), 1-7. [More Information]
  • Aparicio, L., Lipworth, W., Then, S., Stewart, C., Coghlan, P., Kerridge, I., Fleming, J. (2013). Biobanking of blood and bone marrow: Emerging challenges for custodians of public resources. Journal of Law and Medicine, 21(2), 343-350.
  • Stewart, C., Aparicio, L., Kerridge, I. (2013). Ethical and legal issues raised by cord blood banking - the challenges of the new bioeconomy. Medical Journal of Australia, 199(4), 290-292. [More Information]

2012

  • Stewart, C. (2012). A defence of the requirement to seek consent to withhold and withdraw futile treatments. Medical Journal of Australia, 196(6), 406-408. [More Information]
  • Stewart, C., Cockburn, T., Madden, B., Callaghan, S., Ryan, C. (2012). Leave to Intervene in Cases of Gender Identity Disorder; Normative Causation; Financial Harms and Involuntary Treatment; and the Right to Be Protected From Suicide. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 9(3), 235-242. [More Information]
  • Chapman, S., Morrell, B., Forsyth, R., Kerridge, I., Stewart, C. (2012). Policies and practices on competing interests of academic staff in Australian universities. Medical Journal of Australia, 196(7), 452-456. [More Information]

2011

  • Stewart, C., Peisah, C., Draper, B. (2011). A test for mental capacity to request assisted suicide. Journal of Medical Ethics, 37(1), 34-39. [More Information]
  • Stewart, C. (2011). Futility Determination as a Process: Problems with Medical Sovereignty, Legal Issues and the Strengths and Weakness of the Procedural Approach. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 8(2), 155-163. [More Information]
  • Stewart, C. (2011). Law and cancer at the end of life: The problem of nomoigenic harms and the five desiderata of death law. Public Health, 125(12), 905-918. [More Information]

2010

  • Stewart, C. (2010). Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. In Ben White, Fiona McDonald and Lindy Willmott (Eds.), Health Law in Australia, (pp. 415-448). Sydney: Thomson Reuters.
  • Radan, P., Stewart, C. (2010). Principles of Australian Equity and Trusts. Sydney: LexisNexis Butterworths.
  • Radan, P., Stewart, C., Vickovich, I. (2010). Principles of Australian Equity and Trusts: Cases and Materials. Chatswood, Australia: Butterworths.

2009

  • Kerridge, I., Lowe, M., Stewart, C. (2009). Ethics and Law for the Health Professions. Sydney, Australia: The Federation Press.
  • Kerridge, I., Lowe, M., Stewart, C. (2009). Ethics and Law for the Health Professions 3rd Edition. Sydney, Australia: The Federation Press.

2008

  • Stewart, C. (2008). Allied health professions, professionalism, ethics and law. In Rosemary Kennedy (Eds.), Allied Health Professionals and the Law, (pp. 24-38). Sydney: Federation Press.
  • Stewart, C. (2008). Reporting own and others' conduct. In Rosemary Kennedy (Eds.), Allied Health Professionals and the Law, (pp. 176-192). Sydney: Federation Press.

2007

  • Stewart, C., Kerridge, I., Parker, M. (2007). The Australian Medico-Legal Handbook. Australia: Elsevier.
  • Stewart, C. (2007). The doctrine of substantive unfairness and the review of substantive legitimate expectations. In Matthew Groves and H. P. Lee (Eds.), Australian Administrative Law: Fundamentals, Principles and Doctrines, (pp. 280-298). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Parker, M., Stewart, C., Willmott, L., Cartwright, C. (2007). Two steps forward, one step back: advance care planning, Australian regulatory frameworks and the Australian Medical Association. Internal Medicine Journal, 37(9), 637-643. [More Information]

2006

  • Stewart, C. (2006). Advance directives: Disputes and dilemmas. In Ian Freckelton and Kerry Peterson (Eds.), Disputes and Dilemmas in Health Law, (pp. 38-53). Sydney, Australia: The Federation Press.

2005

  • Radan, P., Stewart, C., Lynch, A. (2005). Equity & Trusts - 2nd Edition. Australia: LexisNexis Butterworths.
  • McPhee, J., Stewart, C., McPhee, J., Stewart, C. (2005). Recent developments in law. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 2(1), 122-129. [More Information]
  • Stewart, C. (2005). The Australian experience of advance directives and possible future directions. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 24(s1), S25-S29.

2004

  • Stewart, C., Biegler, P. (2004). A Primer on the Law of Competence to Refuse Medical Treatment. Australian Law Journal, 78(5), 325-342.
  • Stewart, C. (2004). The Rule of Law and the Tinkerbell Effect: Theoretical Considerations, Criticisms and Justifications for the Rule of Law. Macquarie Law Journal, 4, 135-164.
  • Stewart, C. (2004). The sanctity of life in law: Comparisons between Jewish, Catholic, Islamic and common law approaches. In Peter Radan, Denise Meyerson, Rosalind F.Croucher (Eds.), Law and Religion: God, the State and the Common Law - Routledge Studies in Religion Volume 9, (pp. 269-294). United Kingdom: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.

2003

  • Stewart, C., Lynch, A. (2003). Undue influence, consent and medical treatment. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 96(12), 598-601. [More Information]

2002

  • Stewart, C. (2002). Legal Constructions of Life and Death in the Common Law. Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, 2(1), 67-91.
  • Stewart, C. (2002). Some Legal Reflections on the Death of Nancy Crick. Monash Bioethics Review, 2, 15-17.

2001

  • Biegler, P., Stewart, C. (2001). Assessing Competence to Refuse Medical Treatment. Medical Journal of Australia, 174(10), 522-525.
  • Radan, P., Stewart, C., Lynch, A. (2001). Equity and Trusts. United Kingdom: LexisNexis Butterworths.
  • Stewart, C. (2001). Public Interests and the Right to Die: Compelling reasons for overriding the right to refuse treatment.

2000

  • Biegler, P., Stewart, C., Savulescu, J., Skene, L. (2000). Determining the Validity of Advance Directives. Medical Journal of Australia, 172(11), 545-548.
  • Stewart, C. (2000). Qumsieh's Case, Civil Liability and the Right to Refuse Medical Treatment. Journal of Law and Medicine, 8(1), 56-67.
  • Stewart, C. (2000). Substantive Unfairness: A New Species of Abuse of Power. Federal Law Review, 28(3), 617-636.

1999

  • Stewart, C. (1999). Advance Directives, the Right to Die and the Common Law: Recent Problems with Blood Transfusions. Melbourne University Law Review, 23, 161-183.

1997

  • Stewart, C. (1997). Who Decides When I Can Die? Problems Concerning Proxy Decisions to Forego Medical Treatment. Journal of Law and Medicine, 4(4), 386-401.

Selected Grants

2023

  • Development of a generalisable evaluation framework for high upfront-cost therapies: clinical, economic, ethico-legal, social and cultural considerations, Howard K, De Abreu Lourenco R, Mason K, Lipworth W, Kerridge I, Ho P, Norris S, Viney R, Rasko J, Roberts A, Stewart C, Lynch G, Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal - administered by NHMRC)/2022 Assessment of High-Cost Gene Treatments and Digital Health Interventions Grant Opportunity

2022

  • Ethical governance for clinical and genomic data, Newson A, Dawson A, Dive L, Kerridge I, Stewart C, Lysaght T, Department of Health and Aged Care (Federal)/MRFF - Genomic Health Futures Mission (GHFM) - Genomics Health Futures Mission Grant