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John Devereux is the TC Beirne School of Law Professor of Common Law. He teaches and researches the law of torts. He has a special interest in medical law. John Devereux teaches and researches the law of torts. He has a special interest in medical law. He is a former board member of the Australian Institute of Health Law. In 1998/1999 Professor Devereux chaired an Inquiry into the Practice of Mass Immunisation. He is editor of the Medical Law Reporter produced by the Law Book Company. He has published widely in tort and crime. His book Medical Law (now in its 2nd edition) is published by Cavendish Press. A former Rhodes Scholar, Professor Devereux has served as a Law Reform Commissioner for Queensland as well as a legal member of the Commonwealth Social Security Appeals Tribunal. He was formerly Lecturer in Law at Keble College, Oxford University; Assistant Dean of Magdalen College, Oxford University; Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Law at Griffith University and, most recently, Professor of Law at the University of Tasmania and a Fellow of Jane Franklin Hall. In 1998, he was jointly with Dr C.A. Berglund, awarded the Oscar Rivers Schmalzbach Prize by the Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences.
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