Academy Fellow

Professor Cameron Stewart is an internationally recognised scholar of health law and ethics. His research is focused on the interaction of normative systems, such as law, ethics and professional regulation, and their impact on the practice of health care.

Stewart’s work has had significant impact of the field of consent to healthcare decision-making and the regulatory systems that enable decisions to be made, especially when those systems interact with vulnerable populations including children, people living with cognitive decline, and people living with disabilities. Stewart also has expertise in the regulation of emerging modalities of care (for example, end-of-life decisions, voluntary assisted dying (VAD), cord blood, biobanking, genomics, artificial intelligence and autologous stem cell interventions).

Stewart’s research has been referred to in decisions of the High Court of Australia, the Supreme Court of Canada and the Full Court of Appeals of South Africa, the NSW Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the Federal Family and Circuit Court of Australia.

Stewart has also had a major impact on policies in Australia and internationally concerned with consent to treatment, advance care planning, end-of-life care, autologous stem cell interventions and voluntary assisted dying.

Legal Member of the New South Wales Medical Council 2017-2025

Member of the NSW Health Ethics Advisory Panel 2005-2025

Expert Reviewer, Inquiry into Human Tissue to the Australian Law Reform Commission

Expert Panel, Inquiry into Elder Abuse, Australian Law Reform Commission

Expert Panel, Inquiry into Equality, Capacity and Disability in Commonwealth Laws, Australian Law Reform Commission

National Expert Advisory Panel, Young People and Consent to Health Care, New South Wales Law Reform Commission

Expert Reviewer, Disability Royal Commission

Special Advisor to the Federal Government’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Group on COVID-19.

Associate Editor (Health Law), Journal of Law and Medicine

Chair of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Foundation

Editorial Board, Journal of Law and the Biosciences

Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law

Honorary Fellow of the Australian College of Legal Medicine

1.      Stewart, C. 2025, Supported decision-making for people living with dementia in NSW, NSW Parliamentary Library. Research Paper 6 https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/researchpapers/Pages/Supported-decision-making-for-people-living-with-dementia-in-NSW.aspx

2.      Stewart, C., Rudge, C., Tomossy, G., Kerridge, I. 2025. Desktop Legal Research and Human Ethics Review: Problems of Juridification and "Ethics-Creep". Journal of Law and Medicine, 32(1), 36-48.

3.      Sung, J and Stewart, C (eds) (2024) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Ethical, Social and Legal Issues Elsevier

4.      O'Connor, M., Rudge, C., Stewart, C. (2024). Sexual Boundary Violations by Doctors - Context, Regulatory Consequences and Preventive Strategies. Journal of Law and Medicine, 31(1), 70-87.

Stewart, C (2023), Capacity, Participation and Values in Australian Guardianship Law. In Kong C, Coggon J, Cooper P, Dunn M and Keene AR (eds) Capacity, Participation and Values in Comparative Perspective (Bristol Uni Press, 2023), 146-166.