New LLM in Health Law, Ethics and Policy launched

The Faculty of Law has launched the LLM in Health Law, Ethics and Policy. This new concentration reflects some of the urgent challenges in the fast-paced and evolving health care world. Issues such as human experimentation, end-of-life decisions, the pharmaceutical industry, mental health, medical patents, and right-to-health services have far-reaching consequences for individuals and social institutions. 

Starting in 2014-2015, graduate students in this new program will research these compelling topics, often from an interdisciplinary perspective, with the Faculty of Law’s leading edge health law scholars.

"Challenges in our health-care system—safety of the frail elderly in long-term care homes or the rights of consumers to know whether foods are genetically modified—are best met by minds trained at the graduate level in health law, ethics and policy,” says Prof. Colleen Flood, Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy. “Our concentration in health law will nurture a new generation of scholars ready to address these challenges on behalf of Canadians."

Read more about the LLM in Health Law, Ethics and Policy here.