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Mr Chris Dietz

Mr Chris Dietz

Senior Research Associate
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), 2018
  • PhD in Socio-Legal Studies (University of Leeds), 2016
  • MA in Criminological Research (University of Leeds), 2013
  • LLB in Law and European Law (University of Leeds), 2012
Medicine & Health
Intl Ctr for Future Health Sys

I am a socio-legal scholar researching the intersection of health justice, technology, and embodiment. I joined the International Centre for Future Health Systems in February 2025. Prior to this, I was a Lecturer in Law & Social Justice at the University of Leeds (UK). I have undertaken visiting fellowships at the Unit of Gender Studies, Linkoping University, the Centre for Gender Studies, Karlstad University, and the Center for Gender Studies, University of Copenhagen.
E-mail
chris.dietz@unsw.edu.au
  • Books | 2022
    Dietz C, 2022, Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender, Routledge
    Books | 2020
    , 2020, A Jurisprudence of the Body, Dietz C; Travis M; Thomson M, (eds.), Springer International Publishing,
  • Book Chapters | 2020
    Dietz C; Pearce R, 2020, 'Depathologising Gender: Vulnerability in Trans Health Law', in Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies, Springer International Publishing, pp. 179 - 203,
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Dietz C; Travis M; Thomson M, 2020, 'Nobody, Anybody, Somebody, Everybody: A Jurisprudence of the Body', in Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies, pp. 1 - 13,
  • Journal articles | 2020
    Dietz C, 2020, 'Jurisdiction in Trans Health', Journal of Law and Society, 47, pp. 60 - 86,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Dietz C, 2018, 'Governing Legal Embodiment: On the Limits of Self-Declaration', Feminist Legal Studies, 26, pp. 185 - 204,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Dietz C, 2016, 'Book Review: Chronotopes of Law: Jurisdiction, Scale and Governance', Social & Legal Studies, 25, pp. 126 - 128,

My largest award to date was UK Economic and Social Research Council 1+3 studentship that funded my MA and PhD research. My most recent award was of a Michael Beverley Innovation Fellowship to support my research into the ethical consequences of the prescription of wearable fitness devices in health care systems.

Much of my research has considered the regulation of gendered embodiment, with a primary focus on promoting equitable access to trans health care. This includes the first empirically based and theoretically informed investigation of the effectiveness of the ‘self-declaration model’ of legal gender recognition in Denmark – conducted at a time when it was the second state to have adopted this model worldwide.

After releasing a Briefing Paper which summarises my work for non-academic audiences, and , I was invited to present my work at various conferences. I also gave evidence to .

Mitch Travis, Michael Thomson, and I edited , which brought international scholars together to examine health law and the place of the body within it. I also co-authored (with Julie Wallbank) two publications on the law governing assisted reproductive technologies.

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