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.

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