[Salona Lutchman & Noam Peleg] Defensive Medicine: Is it in the Best Interests of the Child?

On 5th May 2025 CLS hosted a seminar entitled Defensive medicine: is it in the best interests of the child? Salona Lutchman (Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Town) presented a paper on the topic, with Dr Noam Peleg (Associate Professor, University of New South Wales Sydney) as discussant. 

Salona Lutchman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Public Law at the University of Cape Town since January 2013. She is currently the convenor of the postgraduate Human Rights Programme (LLM and MPhil). Salona convenes the LLB elective International Human Rights and the Constitution. On the postgraduate programme, she convenes the course International Protection of Women's Human Rights and co-convenes the International Rights of the Child course.

Noam Peleg is an Associate Professor and Director – Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the Faculty of Law and Justice at the University of New South Wales Sydney. He works in international children’s rights law, human rights law, childhood studies, and family law. He is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Children’s Rights and is the Journal’s Book Review Editor. Noam was Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School and Leiden Law School. He is also a board member and a trainer at the Diplomacy Training Program (DTP), an NGO committed to advancing human rights and empowering civil society in the Asia-Pacific region. Before moving to academia, Noam practiced law in several human rights NGOs.