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Faculty Success in Research
A central value of Macquarie University and of Macquarie Law is the promotion of high quality research and scholarship as a means of enhancing our capacity to deliver exceptional educational experiences to our students. Bearing this in mind it is very pleasing to note the success by Dr Natalie Klein, who has been awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant to the value of $220,000 over three years, to investigate the choice of litigation as a means of resolving international law disputes.
Added to this is the success of Associate Professor Cameron Stewart in attracting $402,000 of funding (with co-researchers from a number of universities) from the National Health and Medical Research Council to study ethical and legal issues surrounding the decision making process for donating and banking umbilical cord blood.
The most pleasing aspect of these developments is the benefit they will bring Macquarie’s law students. One of Dr Klein’s primary teaching areas is International Law, while Associate Professor Stewart has for several years convened the extremely popular Health Law and Ethics unit. The funding attracted by these scholars will contribute to their further mastery of their specialised areas of the LLB curriculum, which will translate into the generation of more cutting edge program content.