Workshop: Contemporary Issues in Health Law, Ethics and Policy (LAW501Y1Y)

The Faculty of Law of the University of Toronto runs a regular Health Law workshop that meets on average every three weeks throughout the academic year. Students are welcome to attend and those who wish to may also take the seminar for academic credit.  

The Workshop attracts both speakers and participants from a wide range of disciplines as well as from a wide range of institutions. The goal is to introduce students to a variety of interdisciplinary approaches (incorporating law, bioethics, philosophy, political science, economy, etc.) and to explore contemporary issues in health law, ethics and policy such as the legal and regulatory issues raised in the context of the pandemic, the law in relation to medical assistance in dying (euthanasia and assisted suicide), the regulation of assisted human reproduction and new genetic technologies, the role of law in improving the health of Indigenous peoples, disability rights and health, the criminalization of the non-disclosure of HIV status, constitutional challenges related to health care, the regulation of the profession, health and human rights, the need for regulation of long-term care facilities, access to essential medicines, the use of health-related scientific evidence in the courts and in policy making, compulsory treatment of the mentally ill, disclosure of pharmaceutical trial data, the role of class action litigation to promote drug safety, and more.