The hidden risks of expanding medical assistance in dying: Trudo Lemmens

Monday, April 28, 2025

Faculty of Law Professor Trudo Lemmens, Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy and Dr. K. Sonu Gaind, professor, Temerty Faculty of Medicine and Chief of Psychiatry, Sunnybrook are co-editors of, with Dr. Ramona Coelho, Unravelling MAiD in Canada: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide as Medical Care (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025).

In the Spring 2025 issue of U of T Magazine, Lemmens and Gaind question what happens when MAiD becomes more accessible than support and care.

Health Law, Policy & Ethics Seminar Series

Making Decisions in the Midst of Alzheimer’s Disease

Presenter: 

Emily Largent, PhD, RN
Division Chief, Medical Ethics, Perelman School of Medicine
Emanuel and Robert Hart Chair of Medical Ethics, Perelman School of Medicine
Lecturer, Carey Law School

Health Law, Policy & Ethics Seminar: Alissa Trotz, Brian Concannon and Beatrice Lindstrom

 

Health Law, Policy and Ethics Seminar Series 

Presents:

D. Alissa Trotz
Professor, U of T Caribbean Studies and Director of U of T's Women and Gender Studies Institute

Brian Concannon
Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH)

Health Law, Policy & Ethics Seminar Series: Patrick Garon-Sayegh, Université de Montréal Faculty of Law

On Claiming Medical Expertise in Malpractice Cases (and Beyond): Mapping Legal, Medical and Ethical Domains

Presenter: 

Patrick Garon-Sayegh
Assistant Professor
Université de Montréal Faculty of Law

U of T Law welcomes three new faculty members

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

The Faculty is pleased to welcome three accomplished faculty members joining U of T Law, effective July 1, 2022: 

Assistant Professor Abdi Aidid

Prof Abdi Aidid

 

MAID town hall: Professor Trudo Lemmens joins CBC's The National Conversation to discuss proposed changes to medical assistance in dying

Thursday, July 23, 2020

Professor Trudo Lemmens is the Faculty's Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy. His research focuses on the interaction between law, governance tools, and ethical norms and values in the context of health care, biomedical research, pharmaceutical and other health product development, and knowledge production.

U of T's Centre for Ethics launches Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI

Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Markus Dubber
Markus Dubber, the director of U of T's Centre for Ethics, co-edited the nearly 900-page handbook, which examines the evolving field of AI through an interdisciplinary and international lens (photo courtesy Faculty of Law)

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