Prof. Trudo Lemmens co-authors "Why we must move cautiously on doctor-assisted dying"

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

In a commentary in the Globe and Mail, Prof. Trudo Lemmens and Prof. Harvey Schipper of the Faculty of Medicine review the many complex issues that Parliament must consider when it comes to legislating about physician-assisted death ("Why we must move cautiously on doctor-assisted dying," January 11, 2016).

Read the full commentary on the Globe and Mail website, or below.

Why we must move cautiously on doctor-assisted dying

By Trudo Lemmens and Harvey Schipper

January 11, 2016

Prof. Anand named to expert panel reviewing financial advisers and planners sector

Tuesday, April 28, 2015
headshot of Anita Anand

Prof. Anita Anand is one of four independent experts named to an Ontario panel to review the regulations relating to financial advisers and planners, provincial finance minister Charles Sousa announced April 27th.

Getting into UofT Law - JD Admissions

JD Admissions visits UofT Department of Criminology

JD AdmissionsGet the inside scoop on applying to our JD program directly from the Faculty of Law Admissions Office and hear from current law students. 

Learn about our whole-person admission process and how to improve your application to our JD program. 

Becoming a Better Leader - Strengths Based Leadership for Lawyers

Improve your leadership strengths and complete your CPD Professionalism hours for 2014! Join us for this amazing workshop!  To register, email kim.snell@utoronto.ca.  Cost: $395 plus HST. Hurray!  Spots are limited.

Revisiting the Civility Debate, with The Hon Madame Justice Katherine Swinton

Saturday, March 15, 2014

By K. Elhatton-Lake

The Hon. Madam Justice Katherine SwintonDoes civility matter in the practice of law? On March 6, 2014, The Hon. Madam Justice Katherine Swinton challenged the audience, at the Program on Ethics in Law and Business lunch time session on "Revisiting the Civility Debate," to consider how the legal profession should approach the incivility among its members.

Getting women on corporate boards: Canada's middling approach just might work

Anita Anand
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

By Anita Anand

Published in the Globe and Mail on February 21, 2014

Board diversity is a hot topic in corporate Canada. With various European countries passing mandatory quota legislation to increase the number of women on boards and our federal and provincial governments calling for a balanced gender complement, regulators have faced increasing pressure to take a close look at the issue.

But recent evidence suggests that Canadian companies are already responding by voluntarily making changes around the boardroom table. Executive search firm Spencer Stuart has released a study indicating that Canadian companies may be surpassing their American counterparts in women’s representation on boards.

In 2011, the two countries were neck and neck, with 17 per cent women directors on the boards of Canada’s 100 largest companies and comparable U.S. firms. In 2013, Canadian companies were up to 20 per cent, while the U.S. percentage remained unchanged.

This is good news, but should not be confused with the overall picture. For example, of the 445 firms that responded to a recent consultation by the Ontario Securities Commission, nearly 60 per cent did not have a single woman director on their board.

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.

Groundbreaking Program on Ethics in Law and Business launches

Monday, March 11, 2013

Launch of the Program on Ethics in Law and Business

By Noel Semple, JD 2007, SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for the Legal Profession

Launch of The Program on Ethics in Law & Business

The Program on Ethics in Law & Business

The University of Toronto Faculty of Law cordially invites you to the official launch of The Program on Ethics in Law & Business. Under the direction of Professor Anita Anand, this innovative program will address contemporary ethical challenges at the intersection of law and business. The program is the first of its kind in North America.

Webcast: Seminar on Differing Perspectives on the Gardasil/HPV-Vaccination Program in Ontario

Friday, May 2, 2008

The Faculty of Law, with the University of Toronto's Department of Public Health Sciences and Joint Centre for Bioethics, has initiated a seminar series on "Public Health Ethics, Law and Policy."

The inaugural seminar was held on the subject of "Differing Perspectives on the Gardasil/HPV-Vaccination Program in Ontario" at the Faculty of Law on March 20, 2008. It featured the following speakers:

  • Vinita Dubey, Associate Medical Officer of Health, Division of Communicable Diseases, Toronto Public Health
  • Anne Rochon Ford, Coordinator, Women and Health Protection Working Group
  • Angus Dawson, Visiting Faculty Fellow, Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
  • Joanna Erdman, Co-Director, International Reproductive and Sexual Health Law Programme
  • CHAIR, Trudo Lemmens, Associate Professor, Faculties of Law and Medicine

This seminar is now available to be viewed as a webcast.

Click here to watch the seminar over the web.

 

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