Katrine Del Villar

Katrine Del Villar is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Queensland University of Technology and a member of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research.

Katrine teaches Constitutional Law and Statutory Interpretation. She applies her skills in these areas to research in areas of medical law. She is particularly interested in comparative statutory analysis, and comparative constitutional rights litigation. Her principal areas of research interest are:

- voluntary assisted dying

- mental health law (especially advance decision-making)

- capacity and autonomy to make medical decisions, and

- consent to and refusal of medical treatment.

Prior to joining QUT, Katrine worked as an associate to Justice Gaudron of the High Court, as a solicitor for Blake Dawson Waldron, as a research officer for the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library, and as an academic at Griffith University.

Katrine obtained a PhD from QUT in 2020, a BA (Hons)(Russian) from the ANU in 1995, and an LLB(Hons) from the ANU in 1997. She is admitted to practice as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the ACT and of the High Court.