Teaching and Curriculum Development

Courses and Curriculum Online

• Gender Equality in Transnational Legal Perspective, 2023 (LAW301H1F / LAW6021H )
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• Women's Rights in Transnational Law,  2018
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  Readings on Quercus
  
  
• Women's Rights in Transnational Law 2017   
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  Textbook:  Casebook
  
  
• Reproductive Health in Transnational Law 2015
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  Textbooks:  Casebook +  Abortion Law in Transnational Perspective
  
  
• Reproductive and Sexual Health Law 2011
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  Textbooks:  Casebook +  Reproductive Health and Human Rights
  
• Case Studies in Health and Human Rights: A collaborative project of the Health Equity and Law Clinic and the Law and Health Initiative, Open Society Foundation's Public Health Program:
  1. Women living with HIV/AIDS and Forced Sterilization              (Russian)
  2. Transgender Rights to Gender-Affirming Medical Treatment  
         and Change of Registered Sex on Identity Documents          (Russian)
  3. Women who Use Drugs and Maternal Care                              (Russian)
  
  
• Women's Rights in Transnational Law 2013
  Syllabus 2013 
  Syllabus 2010 
  Textbook:  Gender Stereotyping: Transnational Legal Perspectives
  
• Women and International Human Rights Law (a two-week intensive course at American University Washington DC taught by R. Cook) 
  Course Description

• Using Human Rights Principles to Realize Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights Claims (Pretoria, South Africa)
  Open-access Textbook  of textbook ed. Charles Ngwena and Ebenezer Durojaye
  Free access to of Kenya National Commission on Human Rights Report
  

• Reproductive Health: Case Studies with Ethical Commentary (Haifa, Israel: UNESCO, 2006) -31 case studies for training health care providers and administrators, developed by Bernard M. Dickens, R.J. Cook & E. Kismodi. 
  Update:  In 2016, some of these cases were incorporated into UNESCO's Bioethics Core Curriculum, of which
  Section 1 is online here in English French and German and Section 2 is online here in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

  • • English original  (PDF)  Backup copy of English original
    • French translation (PDF)   Backup copy of French
    • Chinese translation (PDF)   Backup copy of Chinese

Related courses / groups at the Faculty of Law

• List of courses at Faculty of Law
• Feminism and Law Workshops 
• Health Law, Ethics and Policy - Contemporary Issues 
• International Human Rights Law
• Law and Development 
• Law, Institutions and Development
• Public Health Law
• CIHR Training Program in Health Law, Ethics and Policy
• CIHR Strategic Training Program in Public Health Policy

Other learning centres at the University of Toronto

• Centre for Women's Studies in Education
• Women's & Gender Studies Institute
• Collaborative Program in Women's Health
• Joint Centre for Bioethics
• Centre for Maternal, Infant and Reproductive Health Research
• Women's College Research Institute