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© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014. Donald Chalmers is a distinguished professor of law and director of the Centre for Law and Genetics, University of Tasmania. Foundation fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, chair of the Gene Technology Ethics and Community Consultative Committee, and chair of the Data Access Committee of the International Cancer Genome Consortium. Chair of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Australian Health Ethics Committee, 1994-2000, and deputy chair of the Embryo Research Licensing Committee, 2002-2012.