Date of Seminar
| Speaker | Title |
|---|
September 14
Thursday | Irehobhude O. Iyioha
Visiting Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law & Adjunct Professor
John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre, University of Alberta | Theorizing Effectiveness: Law, Women's Health and the Limits of Formal Legal Effectiveness - A Multi-jurisdictional Analysis of Access to Abortion Services |
September 28
Thursday | Larry Chartrand
Professor and Director, Native Law Centre
University of Saskatchewan College of Law | Aboriginal Rights and the Best Interests of the Child: The Hamilton Health Sciences v. D.H. |
October 12
Thursday | Rebecca Dresser, D.N.
Kirby Professor of Law and
Professor of Ethics in Medicine
Washington University Saint Louis | Should the Law Permit Physician-Assisted Death for Dementia? |
October 26
Thursday | Marta Machado
Professor, Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School
Sao Paulo, Brazil | The Battle Over Abortion Rights in Brazil’s State Arenas, 1995-2006 Watch the video of this seminar |
| November 23 Thursday | Vardit Ravitsky
Associate Professor
Bioethics Program, School of Public Health, University of Montreal | The Shifting Landscape of Prenatal Testing:
Ethical and Social Implications of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing |
January 18
Thursday | Aaron Kesselheim
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School and
Director, Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law (PORTAL) | The Benefit and Risks of Expedited Development and Regulatory Approval of New Drugs |
February 1
Thursday | Catherine Regis
Associate Professor
Faculty of Law, University of Montreal
Louise Bernier
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Sherbrooke | A Relational Autonomy Perspective on Advance Medical Directives for End-of-Life Care Watch the video of this seminar |
February 15
Thursday | YY Chen
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa | Debating Migrants' Inclusion in Health Care Solidarity Watch the video of this seminar |
March 8
Thursday | Erin Nelson
Professor, Faculty of Law
University of Alberta | Health Equity and Indigenous Women Watch the video of this seminar |
