The Harold Luntz Graduate Research Thesis Prize is awarded annually to the Melbourne Law School graduate research student judged to have presented the best thesis in the previous year, provided that the nominee meets an overall level of excellence required for the award. It is named for Emeritus Professor Harold Luntz, a world expert on torts law and a former dean and professor at the Melbourne Law School.
2008 Winner
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Dr Elizabeth Brophy
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The Integration of Complementary and Alternative Medicine into Health Care:
Regulating for Consumer Choice, Autonomy and Responsibility
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Dr Brophy was supervised by Associate Professor Christine Parker and Emeritus Professor Harold Luntz, and co-supervised by medical practitioners Dr Marie Pirotta and Dr Vicki Kotsirilos.
Dr Brophy investigated the role that the law can play in the integration of evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine into mainstream health care.
The Selection Committee for the Prize said that Dr Brophy’s work was “ambitious and visionary in being truly interdisciplinary in an area which is of growing social importance”
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