Law School

Dr Ruthie Jeanneret

Lecturer in Ethics, Law & Professionalism
Academy for Medical Education
Affiliate Lecturer of T.C. Beirne School of Law
TC Beirne School of Law
+61 7 334 65056
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Researcher biography

Ruthie's teaching and research interests lie at the intersection of law and healthcare. She is particularly interested in voluntary assisted dying and the role of patients and family caregivers in shaping healthcare regulation. Ruthie teaches in the Ethics, Law and Professionalism stream of the Year 1 medical degree and is an active teacher and researcher in the School of Law, including tutoring in Law of Torts II.

Ruthie Jeanneret, BA, LLB (Hons), GradDipLegPrac, PhD, completed her PhD thesis at the Australian Centre for Health Law Research, QUT. Her empirical PhD thesis investigated patients' and family caregivers' perspectives and experiences of voluntary assisted dying regulation in Australia and Canada. Ruthie has been involved in writing the voluntary assisted dying mandatory training for participating practitioners in Queensland, Western Australia, and Victoria. She also has experience in teaching undergraduate law and nursing students.

From 2018 - 2020, Ruthie worked as a litigation lawyer in Queensland and Tasmania, practising primarily in commercial litigation.

Publications

Journal Articles (11)

Journal Articles

Jeanneret, Ruthie, Close, Eliana, Willmott, Lindy and White, Ben P (2024). Patients and caregivers as ‘regulatory actors’ in healthcare systems: Assisted dying as a case study. Medical Law International. doi: 10.1177/09685332241274972
Jeanneret, R. and Prince, S. (2024). Nurses and Voluntary Assisted Dying: How the Australian Capital Territory’s Law Could Change the Australian Regulatory Landscape. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. doi: 10.1007/s11673-024-10370-y
Jeanneret, Ruthie, Close, Eliana, Willmott, Lindy, Downie, Jocelyn and White, Ben P. (2024). Patients' and Caregivers' Suggestions for Improving Assisted Dying Regulation: A Qualitative Study in Australia and Canada. Health Expectations, 27 (3) e14107, e14107. doi: 10.1111/hex.14107
Jeanneret, Ruthie, Close, Eliana, Downie, Jocelyn, Willmott, Lindy and White, Ben P (2024). 'My Advocacy is Not About Me, My Advocacy is About Canadians': A Qualitative Study of how Caregivers and Patients Influence Regulation of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada. Medical law review, 32 (3), 301-335. doi: 10.1093/medlaw/fwae012
White, Ben P., Jeanneret, Ruthie and Willmott, Lindy (2023). Barriers to connecting with the voluntary assisted dying system in Victoria, Australia: a qualitative mixed method study. Health Expectations, 26 (6), 2695-2708. doi: 10.1111/hex.13867
Close, Eliana, Jeanneret, Ruthie, Downie, Jocelyn, Willmott, Lindy and White, Ben P. (2023). A qualitative study of experiences of institutional objection to medical assistance in dying in Canada: ongoing challenges and catalysts for change. BMC Medical Ethics, 24 (1) 71, 1-24. doi: 10.1186/s12910-023-00950-9
White, Ben P., Jeanneret, Ruthie, Close, Eliana and Willmott, Lindy (2023). Access to voluntary assisted dying in Victoria: a qualitative study of family caregivers’ perceptions of barriers and facilitators. Medical Journal of Australia, 219 (5), 211-217. doi: 10.5694/mja2.52004
White, Ben P., Jeanneret, Ruthie, Close, Eliana and Willmott, Lindy (2023). The impact on patients of objections by institutions to assisted dying: a qualitative study of family caregivers’ perceptions. BMC Medical Ethics, 24 (1) 22, 1-12. doi: 10.1186/s12910-023-00902-3
White, Ben P., Del Villar, Katrine, Willmott, Lindy, Close, Eliana and Jeanneret, Ruthie (2022). Mapping the legal regulation of voluntary assisted dying in Victoria: the coherence of a new practice within the wider legal system. Journal of Law and Medicine, 29 (3), 783-810.
Jeanneret, Ruthie, Spiranovic, Caroline, Eckstein, Lisa, McWhirter, Rebekah, Arstein-Kerslake, Anna, Scanlan, Joel, Kirkby, Kenneth, Watters, Paul and Vickers, James (2019). Enhancing early detection of cognitive impairment in the criminal justice system: feasibility of a proposed method. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 31 (1), 60-74. doi: 10.1080/10345329.2018.1556283
Eckstein, Lisa, Chalmers, Donald, Critchley, Christine, Jeanneret, Ruthie, McWhirter, Rebekah, Nielsen, Jane, Otlowski, Margaret and Nicol, Dianne (2018). Australia: regulating genomic data sharing to promote public trust. Human Genetics, 137 (8), 583-591. doi: 10.1007/s00439-018-1914-z