Health Law

Adopting a legal response to embryo donation

Friday, May 17, 2013
Lab technician at work

What are the promises and perils of applying adoption laws and practices to embryo donation?

By Mark Witten

Profs. Flood and Lemmens edit special issue of The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics on "Global Health and the Law"

Friday, May 17, 2013

Profs. Colleen Flood and Trudo Lemmens are the co-editors of a special issue of The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics devoted to "Global Health and the Law" (Volume 41, Issue 1: Spring 2013). The issue comprises the paper from the National Health Law Conference held in Toronto in May 2012.

Committee of inquiry led by Prof. Trudo Lemmens calls for stricter standards regarding seizure of research records

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

A committee of inquiry chaired by Prof. Trudo Lemmens has released its report regarding an incident in which Ottawa institutions seized the records of a pair of academic researchers, concluding that the seizure was unjustified. “The seizure of research records is a serious measure that can be justified in extreme circumstances only, where no other reasonable options are available,” the Committee states in its report. The report also calls for greater clarity about the issue of informed consent in research.

Prof. Bernard Dickens - "Comfort for doctors and patients alike"

Thursday, December 6, 2012

In a commentary in The Globe and Mail, Prof. Emeritus Bernard Dickens explains the issues involved in the upcoming Supreme Court of Canada case of Hassan Rasouli, whose doctors are disputing his wife's desire to keep him on ventilator life support ("Comfort for doctors and patients alike," December 6, 2012).

Read the full commentary on The Globe and Mail website, or below.

HIV & The Supreme Court: Criminal Nondisclosure after Mabior

HIV & The Supreme Court: Criminal Nondisclosure after Mabior

When are people legally obligated to tell their lovers that they are HIV positive? Please join Out in Law and the Progressive Law Students for a lunchtime panel on the Supreme Court of Canada's October 5 decisions in R v Mabior and R v DC.

Monday, October 29th, 12:30pm

SALDF Speaker Panel - Marineland Cruelty Allegations: Will Ontario Finally Regulate Zoos and Aquariums?

Featuring Phil Demers, Marineland whistleblower and former trainer. 

Please join the University of Toronto Student Animal Legal Defense Fund club for a panel discussion on the state of laws to protect captive animals in Ontario.

Webcast: Seminar on Differing Perspectives on the Gardasil/HPV-Vaccination Program in Ontario

Friday, May 2, 2008

The Faculty of Law, with the University of Toronto's Department of Public Health Sciences and Joint Centre for Bioethics, has initiated a seminar series on "Public Health Ethics, Law and Policy."

The inaugural seminar was held on the subject of "Differing Perspectives on the Gardasil/HPV-Vaccination Program in Ontario" at the Faculty of Law on March 20, 2008. It featured the following speakers:

  • Vinita Dubey, Associate Medical Officer of Health, Division of Communicable Diseases, Toronto Public Health
  • Anne Rochon Ford, Coordinator, Women and Health Protection Working Group
  • Angus Dawson, Visiting Faculty Fellow, Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
  • Joanna Erdman, Co-Director, International Reproductive and Sexual Health Law Programme
  • CHAIR, Trudo Lemmens, Associate Professor, Faculties of Law and Medicine

This seminar is now available to be viewed as a webcast.

Click here to watch the seminar over the web.

 

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