Christopher Rudge

Research outputs

Publications are organised by type and listed in reverse chronological order. A green dot marks a freely readable (open-access) version; other tags link to the publisher of record.

Refereed journal articles27
  • 2026 C Rudge and M O’Connor, ‘The Costs of Freebirth: Regulating the Unregistered Management of Labour’Journal of Law and MedicineUnder review
  • 2026 M O’Connor, A Buist and C Rudge, ‘“Psychopathic” Doctors? Antisocial Personality Disorder in Medical Practice’Journal of Law and MedicineUnder review
  • 2026 S Attinger, I Kerridge, C Tanner, C Hooker, M Munsie, T Lysaght, C Rudge, A Petersen and W Lipworth, ‘Evolution or Erosion? Promissory Discourses in “Accelerated” Regulatory Approval of Health Technologies’BioSocietiesAccepted; forthcoming
  • 2026 B Cullen and C Rudge, ‘“It is not a stretch of language”: Infringements as Injuries after New South Wales v Madden’Torts Law Journal (2026) 31 — advance copy available via LexisNexis PlusAdvance copy
  • 2026 C Rudge and D O’Donovan, ‘Evidentiary Burdens and the Recovery of Social Security Debts: Chaplin v Secretary, Department of Social Services (Cth)’Sydney Law Review (2026) 48, 22245: 1–14OA
  • 2026 C Rudge, R McClelland, R Davis and W Chrzanowski, ‘The Regulatory Landscape for Extracellular Vesicle Therapies: Australian Context and Future Directions’Extracellular Vesicles and Circulating Nucleic Acids (2026) 7, 292–301OA
  • 2025 R McClelland and C Rudge, ‘The Medicalisation of Psychedelic Drugs in Australia: Regulatory Implications of a Novel Treatment’Melbourne University Law Review (2025) 48(3), 733–802PDF
  • 2025 T Lysaght, D Nicol, C Rudge, N Ghinea and B Richards, ‘How Can the Law Keep Up? The Challenges in Regulating Health Innovations through the Lens of Embryo Research’Journal of Law and Medicine (2025) 32(2), 307–322PubMed
  • 2025 N Ghinea, C Rudge, D Nicol and T Lysaght, ‘Should Australian Laws Regulating Embryo Research be Reformed? A Call for Commonwealth Review’Australian Health Review (2025) 49, AH25079OA
  • 2025 C Stewart, C Rudge, GF Tomossy and I Kerridge, ‘Desktop Legal Research and Human Ethics Review: Problems of Juridification and “Ethics-Creep”’Journal of Law and Medicine (2025) 32(1), 36–48PubMed
  • 2025 C Rudge, ‘Convict and Forget? The Failure to Remediate 15,000 Wrongful Criminal Convictions in Social Security’University of New South Wales Law Journal (2025) 48(2), 502–550PDF
  • 2024 C Rudge and C Stewart, ‘Injecting Tighter Regulation: Implications of the TGA’s Clampdown on Cosmetic Injectables Advertising’Journal of Law and Medicine (2024) 31(3), 464–482PubMed
  • 2024 C Rudge, ‘Challenging Pandemic Law: From Vaccine Mandates to Judicial Review of Vaccine Approvals’Journal of Law and Medicine (2024) 31(2), 225–243PubMed
  • 2024 M O’Connor, C Rudge and C Stewart, ‘Sexual Boundary Violations by Doctors – Context, Regulatory Consequences and Preventive Strategies’Journal of Law and Medicine (2024) 31(1), 70–87PubMed
  • 2023 K Wilson and C Rudge, ‘COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates: A Coercive but Justified Public Health Necessity’University of New South Wales Law Journal (2023) 46(2), 381–425OA
  • 2023 D Nicol, S Niemeyer, R Paxton and C Rudge, ‘Points to Consider in the Development of National Human Genome Editing Policy’Cambridge Prisms: Precision Medicine (2023) 1, e23OA
  • 2023 C Rudge and N Ghinea, ‘Promoting the Personal Importation of Therapeutic Goods: Recent Legislative Amendments to Advertising Regulations May Impact Consumer Access and Understanding’Australian Health Review (2023) 47(2), 182–191OA
  • 2022 C Rudge, ‘Book Review: Katrina Clifford, Policing, Mental Illness and Media: The Framing of Mental Health Crisis Encounters and Police Use of Force (Routledge, 2021)’Current Issues in Criminal Justice (2022) 34(3), 334–338DOI
  • 2022 C Rudge, S Attinger, I Kerridge, W Lipworth and C Stewart, ‘A New Priority Pathway for Biologicals in Australia: Contextualising and Evaluating the Proposed Reforms’Journal of Law and Medicine (2022) 29, 677–699PubMed
  • 2022 D Nicol, C Rudge, R Paxton and S Niemeyer, ‘How Should We Regulate Heritable Human Genome Editing in Australia?’Journal of Law and Medicine (2022) 29(2), 322–336PubMed
  • 2022 T Phan, S Kim, C Rudge and W Chrzanowski, ‘Made by Cells for Cells: Extracellular Vesicles as Next-Generation Mainstream Medicines’Journal of Cell Science (2022) 135(1), jcs259166DOI
  • 2022 C Stewart and C Rudge, ‘Throwing a Cat Among the Pridgeon(s): The New South Wales Court of Appeal and the Public Interest Test Under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law’Journal of Law and Medicine (2022) 29(4), 1011–1025PubMed
  • 2021 C Rudge, N Ghinea, M Munsie and C Stewart, ‘Regulating Autologous Stem Cell Interventions in Australia: Updated Review of the Direct-to-Consumer Advertising Restrictions’Australian Health Review (2021) 45(4), 507–515OA
  • 2020 N Ghinea, M Munsie, C Rudge and C Stewart, ‘Australian Regulation of Autologous Human Cell and Tissue Products: Implications for Commercial Stem Cell Clinics’Regenerative Medicine (2020) 15(2), 1361–1369DOI
  • 2020 C Rudge and M Munsie, ‘The Promise of Stem Cell Treatments: What Are They and How Are They Regulated Down Under?’Precedent (2020) 156, 25–31OA
  • 2020 C Stewart, I Kerridge, C Waldby, W Lipworth, M Munsie, T Lysaght, C Rudge, N Ghinea, L Eckstein, J Neilsen, J Kaldor and D Nicol, ‘Unconventional Practice, “Innovative” Interventions and the National Law’Journal of Law and Medicine (2020) 27(3), 574–589PubMed
  • 2013 C Rudge, ‘Actants at Any Depth: Bruno Latour and Henri Bergson at the Surface of Science’Philament (2013) 19, npPDF
Books1
  • 2026 C Rudge and C Stewart, End-of-Life Law and Regulation in AustraliaLexisNexisUnder contract
Book chapters5
  • 2023 C Rudge and D Nicol, ‘Bioethical Decision-Making About Somatic Cell Genome Editing: Sickle-Cell Disease as a Case Study’ in Erick Valdés and Juan Alberto Lecaros (eds), Handbook of Bioethical Decisions. Volume I: Decisions at the BenchSpringer Nature (2023) 49–77DOI
  • 2021 W Lipworth, M Wiersma, N Ghinea, T Hendl, I Kerridge, T Lysaght, M Munsie, C Rudge, C Stewart and C Waldby, ‘The Oversight of Clinical Innovation in a Medical Marketplace’ in Graeme Laurie et al (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Health Research RegulationCambridge University Press (2021) 287–295DOI
  • 2019 C Rudge, ‘Novel Readings: Mind- and Emotion-Reading Devices in the Mid-Twentieth Century and in Philip K Dick’s The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch’ in Jarrad Cogle et al (eds), Portable Prose: The Novel and the EverydayLexington Books (2019) 37–56
  • 2019 C Rudge, ‘The Brain at Attention, under Hypnosis, and on Mescaline: Aldous Huxley’s Techniques for Actualizing Human Potential’ in Dana Sawyer, Julian Piras and Uwe Rasch (eds), Aldous Huxley and Self-RealizationLIT Verlag (2019) 103–147PDF
  • 2015 C Rudge, ‘The Shock of Dysrecognition: Biopolitical Subjects and Drugs in Dick’s Science Fiction’ in Alexander Dunst and Stefan Schlensag (eds), The World According to Philip K DickPalgrave Macmillan (2015) 30–47DOI
Edited journals and editorials4
  • 2018 C Rudge and B Worthy (eds), Philament vol 23: ‘New Waves: Twenty-first-century Feminisms’PhilamentOA
  • 2016 C Rudge (ed), Philament vol 22: ‘Facing Precarity’; incl. C Rudge, ‘Facing Precarity’ (Editorial) 1–26PhilamentPDF
  • 2016 C Rudge (ed), Philament vol 21: ‘Terror Australis’; incl. C Rudge, ‘Whence Terror Australis?’ (Editorial) 1–17PhilamentPDF
  • 2015 C Rudge and P Condliffe (eds), Philament vol 20: ‘Humour’; incl. C Rudge and P Condliffe, ‘Humour’ (Editorial) 1–11PhilamentPDF
Reports & submissions to government5
  • 2026 C Rudge, Submission to the review of PD2010_055: Ethical and scientific review of human research, 13 September 2026NSW Health, Office for Health and Medical Research; personal-capacity consultation submissionPDF
  • 2026 C Rudge, Submission to the review of PD2010_056: Site authorisation and site specific assessment, 13 September 2026NSW Health, Office for Health and Medical Research; personal-capacity consultation submissionPDF
  • 2025 C Rudge, Submission to Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs, Inquiry into the Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Technical Changes No. 2) Bill 2025, 25 September 2025Parliament of Australia — SubmissionLink
  • 2023 C Rudge, Submission no 202 to the Joint Select Committee on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice Referendum, 21 April 2023Parliament of Australia — SubmissionLink
  • 2022 D Nicol, R Paxton, S Niemeyer, N Curato, J Dryzek, C Rudge, S Pemberton and F Veri, ‘Genome Editing: Formulating an Australian Community Response: Report to Decision Makers, Stakeholders and Members of the Public’Centre for Law and Genetics, University of Tasmania — Occasional Paper 12PDF
  • 2021 A Newson and C Rudge, Submission no 49 to Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee, Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021, August 2021Parliament of Australia — SubmissionLink
  • 2018 C Rudge, ‘Regulating Medical Practitioners in the Public Interest: A Qualitative Review of Public Interest-based Decisions of the Medical Council of NSW under s150 of the Health Practitioner Regulation (National Law) Act 2009 (NSW)’Medical Council of NSWConfidential
Public scholarship & engagement24
  • 2026 C Rudge, ‘How Wellness Clinics Bend the Rules to Supply Unapproved Peptides and Anti-Ageing Injections’The Conversation — 21 Jul 2026DOI
  • 2026 B Mintzes, B Chaar, CM Hallinan, C Rudge and W Lipworth, ‘Should Clinics Prescribe Medicinal Cannabis That They Also Supply? We Asked 5 Experts’The Conversation — 8 Apr 2026Link
  • 2026 C Rudge, ‘This Medicinal Cannabis Website Bends the Rules. Take Our Quiz to See Why’The Conversation — 26 Mar 2026Link
  • 2025 C Rudge, ‘Thinking of Getting Botox or Filler? These Are the Laws for Cosmetic Injectables’The Conversation — 17 Sep 2025Link
  • 2025 C Rudge, ‘Robodebt Compensation Is a Win for Victims, but Now We May Never Know the Full Story’The Conversation — 5 Sep 2025Link
  • 2025 C Rudge and R McClelland, ‘Two Years on from Australia’s Bold Psychedelic Experiment, Here Are Our Concerns’The Conversation — 20 Aug 2025Link
  • 2025 C Rudge, ‘The Ghost of Robodebt – Federal Court Rules Billions of Dollars in Welfare Debts Must Be Recalculated’The Conversation — 28 Jul 2025Link
  • 2025 C Rudge, ‘New Rules for Cosmetic Injectables Aim to Make the Industry Safer. Will They Work?’The Conversation — 6 Jun 2025Link
  • 2025 C Rudge, ‘Will New Rules for Cosmetic Injectables Actually Make the Industry Safer?’The Independent (UK) — 6 Jun 2025Link
  • 2025 C Rudge, ‘Why Do Women Get “Reassurance Scans” During Pregnancy? And How Can You Spot a Dodgy Provider?’The Conversation — 3 Apr 2025Link
  • 2025 C Rudge, ‘What Is Sexsomnia? And How Can It Be Used as a Defence in Court?’The Conversation — 6 Feb 2025Link
  • 2024 C Rudge, ‘How Old’s Too Old to Be a Doctor? Why GPs and Surgeons over 70 May Need a Health Check to Practise’The Conversation — 7 Aug 2024Link
  • 2024 C Rudge, ‘The First Pig Kidney Has Been Transplanted into a Living Person. But We’re Still a Long Way from Solving Organ Shortages’The Conversation — 10 Apr 2024Link
  • 2024 C Rudge, ‘FDA Approves First Gene-Editing Therapy’Bioedge — 15 Feb 2024Link
  • 2024 C Rudge, ‘Choosing a New Doctor? Their Earlier Sexual Misconduct May Soon Be on the Public Record’The Conversation — 9 Feb 2024Link
  • 2023 C Rudge, ‘Botox and Fillers to Come under Greater Scrutiny by the Medical Regulator. Will It Be Too Little Too Late?’The Conversation — 6 Sep 2023Link
  • 2023 C Rudge, ‘What Happens When Doctors Don’t Act as They Should? And What’s the Ruling against Neurosurgeon Charlie Teo?’The Conversation — 14 Jul 2023Link
  • 2023 C Rudge, ‘Doctors May Soon Get Official “Endorsements” to Practise Cosmetic Surgery – but Will That Protect Patients?’The Conversation — 22 Mar 2023Link
  • 2023 C Rudge, ‘Thinking about Cosmetic Surgery? At Last, Some Clarity on Who Can Call Themselves a Surgeon’The Conversation — 16 Jan 2023Link
  • 2022 C Rudge, ‘Who’s the Best Doctor for a Tummy Tuck or Eyelid Surgery? The Latest Review Doesn’t Actually Say’The Conversation — 1 Sep 2022Link
  • 2022 C Rudge, ‘RAT Reporting Mandate: An Opportunity Missed?’MJA InsightPlus — 7 Feb 2022Link
  • 2021 C Rudge, ‘The Therapeutic Goods Administration Has the Power to Stop Misleading Advertising. So Why Can’t It Stop Craig Kelly’s Texts?’The Conversation — 28 Sep 2021Link
  • 2017 C Rudge, ‘The Goldwater Rule Prevents Psychiatrists Diagnosing Trump from Afar – but Some Say There’s Too Much at Stake’The Conversation — 4 Aug 2017Link
  • 2024 C Rudge, ‘A Small Injection of Strictness: The TGA’s Clampdown on Cosmetic Injectables Advertising’Sydney Health Law (blog) — 12 May 2024Link
  • 2024 C Rudge, ‘Case Note: Fidge v Pfizer Australia Pty Ltd [2024] FCA 161’Sydney Health Law (blog) — 3 Mar 2024Link
  • 2023 C Rudge, ‘Chimeric Animals: Bioethically Questionable but Scientifically Informative?’Sydney Health Law (blog) — 12 Nov 2023Link
  • 2023 C Rudge, ‘Let Guidelines Be Your Guide: AHPRA and National Boards to Reform Cosmetic Procedures Sector’Sydney Health Law (blog) — 25 Sep 2023Link
Conferences, presentations & talks33
  • 2026 C Rudge, ‘Embryo Models, the RIHE Act, and the Limits of Statutory Categories’Guest lecture, LAWS5218 Law and Technology, Sydney Law School — 8 May 2026Slides
  • 2026 C Rudge, ‘Sexual Boundary Violations in Medicine: Context, Regulatory Consequences, Preventive Strategies and Recent Reforms’Sydney Clinical Ethics Intensive, CESA — 21 Mar 2026Slides
  • 2026 C Rudge, ‘Capacity and Decision-Making: Legal Frameworks, Ethical Tensions, and Clinical Practice’Sydney Clinical Ethics Intensive, CESA — 20 Mar 2026Slides
  • 2025 C Rudge, ‘A Critical History of Risk-based Regulation in Australian Therapeutic Goods Law’Weekly Research Seminar Series, Sydney Law School — 7 Oct 2025Link
  • 2025 C Rudge, ‘Mental Illness Law in Clinical Practice’Sydney Local Health District, GradDip PMABD (Rozelle) — 29 Sep 2025Link
  • 2025 C Rudge (with A/Prof Shane Clifton), ‘Disability Models in Law and Policy’ (invited panel)University of Sydney (SUPRA & SRC) — 16 Sep 2025Video
  • 2025 C Rudge and B Cullen, ‘Are Rights Infringements Injuries under the Civil Liability Acts? Tort Compensation after NSW v Madden (2024)’ANZ Tort and Compensation Researchers and Teachers Network Symposium — 13–14 Feb 2025
  • 2024 C Rudge (with Prof Mike O’Connor), ‘Sexual Boundary Violations (SBVs) by Doctors – Context, Regulatory Consequences and Preventive Strategies’Australasian College of Legal Medicine ASM (Queenstown, NZ) — 7–8 Sep 2024Slides
  • 2024 C Rudge, ‘Risk Regulation: What It Is, What It’s Not, and Why It Might Be Controversial’Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law Conference — 2024Slides
  • 2023 C Rudge, ‘Law and Class in the Twenty-First Century’ (roundtable address)Australian Progressive Legal Studies Conference, La Trobe — Dec 2023Link
  • 2023 C Rudge, ‘Prepared to Run the Risk? Why Innovative Medicines Slide between Regulatory Gaps by Design’Regulation of Innovative Health Technologies Workshop, CLG UTas — 23–25 Nov 2023Slides
  • 2023 C Rudge, ‘What Risk? A Critical Analysis of Risk-Based Regulation of Therapeutic Goods, from Stem Cell Medicine to Osseointegration Devices’Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law Conference — Nov 2023Link
  • 2023 C Rudge, ‘Risk-Based Regulation of Cellular Therapies in Australia’Cellular Horizons Research Grant — 31 May 2023Link
  • 2022 C Rudge, ‘Teaching Constraints: Why We Should (but Don’t) Teach the Commonwealth “Spending” Power (among Other Things)’Symposium on the Pedagogy of Political Economy in Australian Law Schools — 29–30 Nov 2022Slides
  • 2022 C Rudge, ‘From Cell Transplants to Genome Edits: Regulation and Bioethics of Existing and Emerging Interventions for Sickle Cell Disease’AABHL Conference: ‘Making Connections’ — 17 Nov 2022Video
  • 2020 C Rudge, ‘The Regulatory Response to Unproven Stem Cell Clinics: What Loopholes Remain?’Departmental Seminar, Anatomy and Neuroscience, University of Melbourne — 1 Sep 2020Slides
  • 2018 C Rudge (prepared for C Lamb), ‘In the Public Interest: A Perspective from NSW, Australia’IAMRA Conference (Dubai) — 7 Oct 2018Link
  • 2018 C Rudge, ‘Chelmsford’s Legacy: Regulating Novel Brain Interventions in the Public Interest’Neuroscience and Society — Aug 2018Link
  • 2017 C Rudge, ‘Pain in the Brain: Worker’s Compensation Claims for CRPS-I in Australia’Neuroscience and Society — 15 Sep 2017Link
  • 2017 C Rudge, ‘Aldous Huxley and Neuropsychiatry’International Aldous Huxley Symposium — Apr 2017Link
  • 2015 C Rudge, ‘Irradiated Inscriptions of Life: Melanin and the Formation of Fungi and Birthmarks (Melanocytic Nevi)’Neolife: Society for Literature, Science and the Arts — 3 Oct 2015Video
  • 2015 C Rudge, ‘Prophecy’s Profits: The Master, L Ron Hubbard, and Scientology’s Cinematic Shadow’Camera/Stylo: Intersections in Literature and Cinema — Apr 2015
  • 2014 C Rudge, ‘Bitter Laughing Through Chemistry: Synthetic Happiness in the Narco-Literary Imagination’Happiness, Joy, and Pleasure Conference — Nov 2014
  • 2014 C Rudge, ‘Doctored Images: Doctors and the Devices in Philip K Dick’s 1960s Novels’SAM Seminar Series, UNSW — Sep 2014Video
  • 2014 C Rudge, ‘Psychotropes: A Pharmacography of Authorship in the Works of Philip K Dick and Aldous Huxley’Nikolas Rose and Biopolitics: Masterclass — Aug 2014
  • 2014 C Rudge, ‘A Letter to a Diagram: On Diagrams and the Scopic Regime’Experimental: A Poetics Symposium — Jul 2014
  • 2013 C Rudge, ‘“The Shock of Dysrecognition”: Toward the Identification of a Philosophy of Psychiatry, Psychosis and Drugs in the Life and Writing of Philip K Dick’Worlds Out of Joint: Reimagining Philip K Dick — Sep 2013
  • 2013 C Rudge, ‘From Psycho to Bio: Anatomising the Biopolitical Turn’Science and the Politics of Emergent Life: Foucault and Beyond — Aug 2013
  • 2012 C Rudge, ‘Making Madness Before America: Saint Peter’s Snow, Psychotomimetics, and the German Experimental Imaginary’Tonics, Elixirs, Poisons Conference — Sep 2012PDF
  • 2012 C Rudge, ‘Madness in Mad Time(s): Delirium, “Non-pulsed” Time, and the Nonhuman’Nonhuman: Society for Literature, Science and the Arts — Sep 2012
  • 2012 C Rudge, ‘Psychopathologies of Time: Philip K Dick, Madness, and the Biochemistry of Spatio-Temporal Alterity’Philip K Dick in the Twenty-First Century — Sep 2012
  • 2012 C Rudge, ‘Ancient Instincts, Modern Hardware: Paranoia, Medical Imaging and Surveillance Technics’Surveillance in/and Everyday Life Conference — 20–21 Feb 2012Link
  • 2011 C Rudge, ‘Invention and the Tekhne-color Labcoat: Scientific History’s Psychotropic Trace’Pharmakon: Society for Literature, Science and the Arts — Sep 2011
Notable citations or quotations3
  • 2025 Commonwealth, Parliamentary Debates, Senate, 5 November 2025, 103 (Senator Allman-Payne)Hansard — quoted in the SenatePDF
  • 2025 Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee, Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Technical Changes No. 2) Bill 2025 (Report, October 2025)Parliament of Australia — Committee reportPDF
  • 2025 Australian Human Rights Commission, Collateral Damage: What the Untold Stories from the COVID-19 Pandemic Reveal about Human Rights in Australia (Report, March 2025) 62 and n 242Australian Human Rights CommissionPDF