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George Tomossy is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University, where he has held his position since 1996. A Barrister and Solicitor of the Law Society of Ontario (Canada), he earned an ARCT, a BSc from the University of Toronto, and an LLB from McGill University. His principal research interests include research ethics and regulation; health law, governance and bioethics; legal governance; public health; sustainable development; and capacity building for developing countries. Tomossy has supervised numerous honours and higher degree research theses in these areas, with recent completions such as "The Precautionary Principle and GMOs: A Bone of Contention between European Institutions and Member States" by A. Guida (MRes, 2016) and "The Capacity Conundrum: How Lawyers Assess their Client's Decision-Making Capacity" by L. Barry (PhD, 2018). He teaches units including Health Law and Ethics, PACE: Clinics and Projects, Foundations of Law, and Professional and Community Engagement.

In his administrative roles, Tomossy served as Director of Learning and Teaching for Macquarie Law School from 2011 to 2015, Chair of the University's Partnerships and Infrastructure Panel from 2011 to 2014, Member of Academic Senate in 2014, and on various Academic Senate committees focused on learning and teaching from 2011 to 2015. He contributes to internationalisation initiatives through capacity building projects in Bangladesh and Indonesia, and has been involved in research projects on sustainable forest governance in Indonesia and ethical issues in surgical innovation. Tomossy received the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Programs that Enhance Learning in 2014, the Faculty of Arts Teaching Award for Programs that Enhance Learning in 2013 (shared with C. Bernal-Pulido, Z. Bending, and C. Greentree), and led the team awarded the Macquarie University Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Programs that Enhance Learning in 2013. His scholarly output includes 42 research items, such as "Desktop legal research and human ethics review: problems of juridification and 'ethics-creep'" (Journal of Law and Medicine, 2025, with C. Stewart et al.), "Health and medical research" (chapter in Health law in Australia, 2024, with I. Pieper and F. McDonald), "Brain death and pregnancy: on the legalities of post-mortem gestation" (Journal of Law and Medicine, 2020, with C. Stewart et al.), and "COVID-19 and Australian prisons: human rights, risks, and responses" (Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 2020, with C. Stewart et al.). He has co-edited Globalisation and Health (Springer, 2006), Human Experimentation and Research (Ashgate, 2003; reprinted Routledge, 2017), and a three-volume collection on Aging (Springer, 2001). Tomossy has served as Editor of the Australasian Journal on Ageing since 2005 and the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry in 2001.