Her research focuses on legal and policy issues relating to new technologies, including nanotechnologies, and public health law. She is coeditor of five books, including the International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies (2010), with Graeme A. Hodge and Andrew D. Maynard, and the Research Handbook of Road Safety (forthcoming), with Michael Fitzharris and Saul Billingsley. She earned a BS in physiology and an LLB and a PhD in law from Monash University. In 2011 she was admitted to practice as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria (Australia).