Dr Andrew McGee

Dr Andrew McGee joined QUT in August 2010 as a lecturer in the School of Law and is an active member of the Health Law Research Centre in the Faculty of Law.  Before joining QUT, Dr McGee completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in philosophy at University College Dublin in 2001, and then worked as a lawyer for Allens Arthur Robinson and for the Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel, Brisbane. His research interests are:

• end-of-life decision making
• the ethics of stem cell research
• philosophy of law, especially Hart and Dworkin
• law of contract.

He has published articles in leading international medical law and ethics journals on palliative care, withholding and withdrawing life-prolonging measures and euthanasia, organ donation and the ethics of abortion:

• ‘Is Providing Elective Ventilation in the Best Interests of Potential Donors?’ (with Prof B White) Journal of Medical Ethics  doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-100991.
• ‘The Moral Status of Babies’ Journal of Medical Ethics (in press).
• ‘Intention, Foresight, and Ending Life: A Response to Foster, Herring, Melham and Hope’ (2013) 22(1) Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 77.
• ‘Omissions, Causation and Responsibility: A Reply to Coggon and McLachlan’ (2011) 8(4) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. ERA ranked A. DOI: 10.1007/s11673-011-9330-2.
• ‘Ending the Life of the Act/Omission Dispute: Causation in Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Measures’ (2011) 31(3) Legal Studies: Journal of the Society of Legal Scholars 467. ERA ranked A*. 
• ‘Me and My Body: The Relevance of the Distinction for the Difference between Withdrawing Life Support and Euthanasia’ (2011) 39(4) Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 671.
• ‘Defending the Sanctity of Life Principle: A Reply to John Keown’ (2011) 18 Journal of Law and Medicine 820. ERA ranked A.
• ‘Is Dawkins a Modern Day Nicodemus?’ (2011) LV (4) Quadrant.
• ‘When Does Pain Relief Hastening Death Become Killing (2011) 20(3) Transplant Journal of Australasia. Guest Editorial.
• ‘Finding a Way Through the Ethical and Legal Maze: Withdrawal of Medical Treatment and Euthanasia’ (2005) 13(3) Medical Law Review 357. ERA ranked A.
• ‘Double Effect in the Criminal Code 1899 (Qld): A Critical Appraisal’ (2004) 4(1) Queensland University of Technology Law and Justice Journal 46. ERA ranked C.
• ‘Bloody Pell!! Q&A stoush between Dawkins and Pell fails to bridge the gap between faith and science’ The Conversation 13 April 2012.
• ‘There’s no good argument for infanticide’ The Conversation 2 March 2012, republished on the Journal of Medical Ethics website and on University of Oxford’s Practical Ethics website on 5 March 2012.
• ‘Finding the Balance in South Australia’s Euthanasia Legislation’ The Conversation 28 September 2011.
• ‘The Long Road to Legalising Euthanasia in South Australia’ The Conversation 7 April 2011.
• ‘Defining Euthanasia’ On Line Opinion 1 July 2010.
• ‘Inherent Defects and the Repair Covenant in Commercial Leases’ (2007) 7(2) Queensland University of Technology Law and Justice Journal 325. ERA ranked C.