Ms Christie Gardiner

Christie Gardiner commenced as an Associate Lecturer of Newcastle Law School in January 2020. She has held positions as a Lecturer of Law at the Australian National University and as a Private Wealth Lawyer at a boutique Canberra law firm. Christie's teaching excellence and mentorship in legal education has been recognised internationally as a Senior Fellow of AdvanceHE (formerly the Higher Education Academy) and she has received various College-level and Vice-Chancellor's citations and nominations for outstanding contributions to student learning. She has developed, convened and taught into a range of compulsory and elective courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including in Wills and Estates Practice, Advanced Estate Planning, Succession, Legal Ethics, Property Law, Tort Law and is presently the Course Coordinator of Civil Dispute Resolution.

Christie is an Organizer of the Law & Society Association's International Research Collaborative (IRC), 'Ageing, Law and Policy' which is applying systems thinking to confront ageing challenges.

Christie is a lawyer of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory and holds professional memberships with the International Federation on Ageing, the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research, the Australasian Law Teachers Association, the Australian Association of Gerontology and is a founding member of the Australian Research Network on Law and Ageing. Christie is a member of the Australian Legal Education Technology Education Network (ALTEN), the Australian arm of the UK's Legal Education Technology Education Network based at Oxford University. 

As an early career academic researcher in ageing and the law (including urban ageing, end of life and human rights), Christie has published edited books, book chapters, articles, industry commentaries and policy and law reform submissions and has been interviewed by ABC Wester Victoria and Eastside FM, a community radio broadcaster in Sydney. Her book (ed. with UN Special Rapporteur Fernand de Varennes and contributor) The Routledge Handbook of Human Rights in Asia (Routledge) was published in 2018. Her latest book (ed. and contributor) The Age-Friendly Lens (Routledge) is scheduled for print early 2021. She has been invited to peer review publications for Cambridge University Press, Macquarie Law Journal and UNSW Law Journal.

Christie's wider research interests include the relationship between law, technology and the human body, particularly in the context of evolving conceptions of personhood, advance personal planning for life extension and the tort law dimensions of technologies such as haptic sensors, immersive VR and telexistence.