Trudo Lemmens

Associate Professor Faculty of Law, with cross-appointments in the Faculty of Medicine

39 Queen's Park 
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C3   

Tel.: 416-978-4201
Email: trudo.lemmens@utoronto.ca

Research interests
Health Law

Publications

All Publications
See also Professor Lemmens' SSRN page.

Trudo Lemmens’ work is situated at the intersections of law, bioethics, health care, and research and innovation.  He is particularly interested in looking at how law, regulation and other governance mechanisms contribute to improved health care and health product development and can strengthen ethical standards in health care and health research.  One of the recurrent themes in his research is the complex interaction between legal rules and societal values in the context of health care and technological innovation in health. His most recent work focuses particularly on the role of law and regulation in the governance of biomedical knowledge, particularly in relation to pharmaceutical products. His work has been published in leading national and international journals of law, bioethics and medicine. 

Professor Lemmens has been a Member of the School of Social Science of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, a fellow of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, and a visiting professor at the universitiies of Otago (New Zealand) and Leuven (K.U.Leuven, Belgium).  He is also an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. He teaches courses on Health Law, Pharmaceutical Governance, Research Ethics, and Privacy, Property and the Human Body.

Education
Cand. Jur. - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Campus Kortrijk, Belgium (1985)
Lic. Jur. - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (1988)
LL.M. (Specialization Bioethics) - McGill University (1995)
D.C.L. - McGill University, (2003)
Academic appointments
Chair, Dr. William M. Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy (present)
Associate Professor (status only), Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology; and Department of Psychiatry (present)
Affiliated Faculty Member, Centre for Innovation, Law and Policy (present)
Associate Member, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto (present)
Member, University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics (present)
Adjunct Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School (2008, 2011)
Visiting Professor, Faculties of Law and Medicine, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (2006-2007)
Fellow, Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium of Science and the Arts, Brussels, Belgium (2006-2007)
Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (Jan-Feb 2007)
Member, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2003 - 2004)
Bioethicist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (1997-1999)
Researcher, Clinical Trials Research Group, Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University (1994-1997)
Visiting Fellow at the Centre de Recherche en Droit Public, Université de Montréal (1994-1996)
Research Associate, McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law (1992-1994)
Teaching and Research Associate (“wetenschappelijk assistent”), department of International and Comparative Law, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (1988-1990)
Awards and distinctions
Fellowship, Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Brussels, Belgium (2006-2007)
Membership, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2003-2004)
Law Commission of Canada, Legal Dimensions Initiative Award (with Duff R. Waring) (2003)
Graduate Student Paper Award, Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (1996)
Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (1995-1997)
Doctoral Fellowship, Fonds pour la formation de chercheurs et l'aide à la recherche du Québec (deferred) (1995-1998)
Student Paper Award, Society for Health and Human Values (1995)
Chief Justice R.A.E. Greenshields Memorial Scholarship for Graduate Studies in Law (1994)
Other service
Member, Advisory Committee on Health Research, Pan American Health Organization (since 2006)
Member, Board of the Ontario Mental Health Foundation (since 2011)
Member, World Health Organization Expert Advisory Panel on Clinical Practice Guidelines and Research Methods and Ethics (since 2010)
Selected Publications

"Access to Information and the Right to Health: The Human Rights Case for Clinical Trials Transparency” (with Candice Telfer) (Forthcoming 2012). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1932436

“Legal Remedies for Medical Ghostwriting: Imposing Fraud Liability on Guest Authors of Ghostwritten Articles “(2011) 8(8) PLoS Medicine, 1-5, Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1893669

"Leopards in the Temple: Restoring Integrity to the Commercialized Research Scene" (2005) 32(4) Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 641 available online at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=682443

"The End of Individual Control Over Health Information: Governing Biobanks and Promoting Fair Information Practices" (with Lisa Austin) in Jane Kaye and Mark Stranger, Governing Biobacks (Farnham (UK): Ashgate, 2009) 243-266.

Trudo Lemmens & Duff R. Waring, eds., Law and Ethics in Biomedical Research, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006) http://www.utppublishing.com/Law-and-Ethics-in-Biomedical-Research-Regul...