Dr Sam Boyle
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Law
Biography
Dr Sam Boyle is a senior lecturer in the School of Law at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). He teaches and researches in the areas of medical law and mental health law. Sam is particularly interested the following research area:- how the law determines legal capacity,
- involuntary treatment for mental illness, and
- consent for medical treatment.
Personal details
Positions
- Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Law
Keywords
ACHLR, Mental Health Law, Capacity and Consent, Health Law, Involuntary treatment
Research field
Law
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (University of Queensland)
Professional memberships and associations
- Member - Australian Centre for Health Law Research
- Member - Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law
Teaching
Units currently taught:
- LLH471 Health Law and Practice
- LWN164 Health Care Law and Ethics
- LLH473 Independent Research Project
- LLH479 Research Thesis Extension
- LLB301 Real Property Law
- LLB204 Commercial and Personal Property Law
Publications
- Boyle, S., Walsh, T. & Nelson, L. (2021). A Study into the Operation of the Queensland Mental Health Review Tribunal. Medical Law Review, 29(1), 106–127. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/209667
- Boyle, S. & Stepanov, N. (2021). Providing emergency medical care without consent: How the 'emergency principle' in Australian law protects against claims of trespass. EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia, 33(3), 575–579. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/209668
- Boyle, S., (2020). Is the wisdom of a person's decision relevant to their capacity to make that decision? Monash University Law Review, 46(1), 39–57. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/205622
- Boyle, S. & Walsh, T. (2021). Procedural fairness in mental health review tribunals: The views of patient advocates. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 28(2), 163–184. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/200983
- Boyle, S., (2019). How should the law determine capacity to refuse treatment for anorexia? International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 64, 250–259. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/129517
- Boyle, S., (2018). Determining capacity: How beneficence can operate in an autonomy-focused legal regime. The Elder Law Journal, 26(1), 35–63. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/120514
- Boyle, S., (2018). Medical evidence of capacity in a legal setting: To what extent do courts and tribunals make their own decisions? Journal of Law and Medicine, 25(2), 572–592. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/120577
- Boyle, S., (2015). Fraud against the registrar: Why the 'De Jager line' of authority is incorrect, and how unfairness in the Torrens system caused it to arise. Australian Property Law Journal, 24(2), 305–326. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/120578
- Boyle, S., (2014). The case for regulation of agricultural water pollution. Environmental Law Review, 16(1), 4–20. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/120580
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Sam, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).