Isabel Karpin

Isabel Karpin researches on the bioethical implications of laws governing reproductive technologies, genetic testing and disability. She explores the challenge posed by new biotechnological developments on legal understandings of normality, disability, individuality, and family. She also teaches disability and the law and genetics and the law. She has a BA and LLB from the University of Sydney, a Masters of Law from Harvard University, Massachusetts, and a Doctorate (JSD) from Columbia...See more

Isabel Karpin researches on the bioethical implications of laws governing reproductive technologies, genetic testing and disability. She explores the challenge posed by new biotechnological developments on legal understandings of normality, disability, individuality, and family. She also teaches disability and the law and genetics and the law. She has a BA and LLB from the University of Sydney, a Masters of Law from Harvard University, Massachusetts, and a Doctorate (JSD) from Columbia University, New York. Professor Karpin joined the faculty of law at the University of Technology, Sydney in February 2009 having previously worked at the University of Sydney from 1994 to 2008. Professor Karpin is the author and co-author of articles, book chapters and books including Perfecting Pregnancy: Law Disability and the Future of Reproduction (with K. Savell, Cambridge, 2012), as well as edited collections such as The 'Healthy' Embryo (with Jeff Nisker, Françoise Baylis, Carolyn McLeod and Roxanne Mykitiuk, Cambridge, 2010). She is currently involved in two major Australian Research Council projects, one exploring the regulation of behaviour as a disability and the other examining family formation using reproductive technology both inside and outside law and across borders. See less