SJD student Y.Y. Chen - "Ontario right to fix Ottawa's mistake on refugee health care"

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

In a commentary in the Toronto Star, SJD student Y.Y. Brandon Chen says that the Ontario government's decision to provide health care to refugee claimants, after funding for it was withdrawn by the federal government, is an important human rights success that could also benefit the province in the long run ("Ontario right to fix Ottawa's mistake on refugee health care," December 12, 2013).

Prof. Flood awarded honorary membership by the College of Family Physicians

Friday, November 8, 2013
Headshot Professor Colleen Flood

Professor Colleen Flood, LLM 1994 and SJD 1998, has been awarded an honorary membership by the College of Family Physicians. Honorary membership may be awarded to individuals who are not family physicians in Canada, in recognition of outstanding contributions to the CFPC, the discipline of family medicine, the medical profession, or the health and well-being of the population in Canada and globally.

University of Minnesota Should Investigate Suicide in Clinical Trial, Scholars Argue

Trudo Lemmens
Thursday, October 24, 2013

[with update Nov. 25, 2013 at the end of the blog]

With colleagues Raymond De Vries (University of Michigan), Alice Dreger (Northwestern University), Lois Shepherd (University of Vriginia), Susan M. Reverby (Wellesley College) and Jerome P. Kassirer (Tufts University), I wrote a letter to the Chair, Vice-Chair and members of the University of Minnesota Senate, to request that the University of Minnesota set up an inquiry to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Dan Markingson in a clinical trial at the University of Minnesota Fairview Hospital. More than 170 leading academic colleagues specialized in health law and human rights, research ethics, bioethics, and medical research joined as signatories to the letter.

Rasouli and the Elephant in the Room

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Prof. Colleen Flood and LLM student Catherine Deans consider the impacts of what the Supreme Court avoided in the Rasouli decision.

Cross-posted from the Impact Ethics blog.

The Supreme Court of Canada has now released its judgment in the Rasouli proceedings with striking differences between the majority and minority decisions. Mr Rasouli was diagnosed as being in a permanent vegetative state and his treating physicians, believing he had no further prospect of recovery, wished to withdraw life support. The applicability of Ontario’s Health Care Consent Act was at the heart of the Supreme Court decision and, more specifically, whether the withdrawal of life support was “treatment” requiring the consent of Mr. Rasouli’s wife (who opposed withdrawal). The challenge for the Court was to strike a balance between clinical autonomy and patient autonomy and, through this, show respect for the beliefs and values of Mr. Rasouli and his family.

Health Law, Ethics & Policy Workshop - Speaker: Norman Daniels

Health Law, Ethics & Policy Workshop Series
David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights & International Human Rights Program
present

Norman Daniels
Harvard School of Public Health

The Ethical Basis for Excluding Unauthorized Immigrants
from the Affordable Care Act

CIHR co-names prize after Prof. Flood

Thursday, October 3, 2013
Headshot Professor Colleen Flood

Today, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR-IHSPR) awarded its first CIHR Barer-Flood Prize, named in honour of the outstanding work of alumna (LLM '94, SJD '98) Prof. Colleen Flood, Faculty of Law, and Dr. Morris Barer, the Institute’s first two scientific directors.

SJD student Kyle Kirkup writes "When should unprotected sex trigger the heavy hand of criminal law?"

Thursday, October 3, 2013

SJD student and Trudeau Scholar Kyle Kirkup has written a commentary in the Globe and Mail analyzing a recent case in which an HIV-positive woman was sent to prison for having unprotected sex ("When should unprotected sex trigger the heavy hand of criminal law?", October 3, 2013).

Read the full commentary on the Globe and Mail website.

Prof. Colleen Flood interviewed on CBC radio about assisted suicide

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Prof. Colleen Flood was interviewed on several CBC radio stations across Canada about the issue of assisted suicide on Sept. 25, 2013.

Listen to the interview on the CBC Radio Vancouver show On the Coast (Sept. 25, at around the 1:01:45 mark to 1:08:00 mark).

Health Law, Ethics & Policy Workshop - Speaker: Colleen Grogan

University of Toronto, Faculty of Law
Health Law, Ethics & Policy Workshop Series
&
The School for Public Policy and Governance

present

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