Thursday, September 26, 2019 - 12:30pm to Friday, September 27, 2019 - 1:55pm
Location: 
Solarium (room FA2), Falconer Hall, 84 Queen's Park

Mary and Phillip Seeman Health Law, Policy & Ethics Seminar

Presents:

John Dawson
Faculty of Law, University of Otago

"House arrest" under a Community Treatment Order and the Interpretation of Mental Health Legislation

 

Thursday September 26, 2019
12:30pm – 2:00pm
Solarium (FA2), 84 Queen’s Park

John Dawsons particular interests are in mental health law, the law governing health information, public law and socio-legal research. He was educated in New Zealand and North America, at Otago and Harvard universities, and has taught as a visitor at McGill in Montreal and at the University of Toronto. The main focus of his research is the law governing involuntary psychiatric treatment and legal relations between mental health professionals and their clients. He studies these matters in the law books and in fieldwork conducted within the mental health services. Often this involves collaboration with health professionals and social scientists. I have also had a long involvement with law reform. In my secondary field of research, public law, his focus has been on relations between the NZ state and Maori, and on Treaty of Waitangi settlements.

If you would like more information about these workshops, please send an email to events.law@utoronto.ca