Trudo Lemmens named 2024 Hastings Center Fellow

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Professor Trudo Lemmens

Professor Trudo Lemmens of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law has been named a Fellow of the Hastings Center in recognition of his scholarly impact.

Health Law Career Panel

The Health Law Club has organized a career panel with the purpose of introducing interested students to the field of health law. The event features panelists who are currently lawyers in the field of Health Law, who will be sharing their experiences and insights into what it's like to work in the industry.

What Counts As Evidence in the Polarized Euthanasia/Assisted Dying Debate: Lessons from a Belgian Criminal Case

In the context of the rapidly expanding, largely unbridled, #euthanasia #MAID practice in Canada, some MAID expansionists continue to deny that there are problems, notwithstanding accumulating reports of euthanasia for lack of social support and adequate health care. They often employ the rhetoric of 'anecdotes are not evidence', with some even naively pointing to a lack of successful prosecution. A critical analysis of a unique Belgian criminal case involving euthanasia by colleagues Marc De Hert, Sien Loos, Sigrid Sterckx,  Eric Thys, and Kristof Van Assche of the Universities of Leuven, Antwerpen, and Gent, is in that context uniquely valuable. See hereafter my JOTWELL review discussing why it should be read, particularly also in the context of the Canadian debate:

U of T Law event, March 2 & 3, delves into climate change from a legal and policy perspective

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Man in a suit holding a green leaf

How is climate change affecting the law, and the role of law in society?

On March 2 & 3, the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law, aims to broaden legal and policy discussions and explore how climate change is impacting law, and the legal profession at Law in a Changing World: The Climate Crisis.

Parliament is not forced by the courts to legalize MAID for mental illness : Law Professors' Letter to Cabinet

Justice Minister David Lametti announced today the introduction of a bill which would delay by one year, until March 2024, the scheduled implementation of MAID for sole reasons of mental illness. Until today, the federal government had repeatedly suggested it was bound by 'the courts' to expand MAID and to make MAID also available for persons whose sole underlying medical condition is mental illness. Minister Lametti even stated in an interview for a recent investigative documentary of CBC's The Fifth Estate, which revealed troubling components of the current MAID practice, that the Supreme Court had recognized 'a right to suicide' and that MAID was a 'species of suicide'. He made similar statements in an interview for a podcast with Althia Raj of the Toronto Star. With some colleagues of other law faculties, we drafted a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau, Ministers Lametti, Duclos, Qualtrough and Bennett, to challenge this problematic and in our view unfounded rhetoric of 'our hands are tied by the courts'.

Health Law, Policy and Ethics Seminar - Yin-Yuan Chen

Health Law, Policy and Ethics Seminar

Presents

Yin-Yuan Chen
University of Ottawa

and 

Commentator:
Kathleen Hammond, Toronto Metropolitan University

INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS' RIGHT TO SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE

Consistently excluded: A disability inclusion analysis of Canada’s COVID-19 policies

Consistently excluded: A disability inclusion analysis of Canada’s COVID-19 policies  

Deborah Stienstra, Jarislowsky Chair in Social Work, Director, Life Work Well Research Centre  

& Valérie Grand’Maison, researcher, Live Work Well Research Centre, Guelph University  

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