Professor Trudo Lemmens has been named a recipient of the King Charles III’s Coronation Medal.
The Coronation Medal was created to mark the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III, which took place on May 6, 2023. It is the first Canadian commemorative medal to mark a coronation.
Administered by the Office of the Secretary to the Governor General, the medal is being awarded to 30,000 Canadians who have made significant contributions at home or abroad.
The Government of Canada developed a list of partner organizations who nominate and present medals to individuals who met the medal’s eligibility criteria.
Lemmens, a professor of law and bioethics, holds the Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy. He is cross-appointed to U of T’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Temerty Faculty of Medicine and the Joint Centre for Bioethics. His research focuses on the interaction between law, governance mechanisms, and ethical norms and values in health care, including biomedical research, health product development, and knowledge dissemination. His more recent work deals with issues related to human rights, disability rights, and health.
Lemmens is co-editor of Unravelling MAiD in Canada: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide as Medical Care (QUP, 2025). Co-editors, Ramona Coelho, a family physician in London and Dr. K. Sonu Gaind, a professor in U of T's Temerty Faculty of Medicine and Chief of Psychiatry at Humber River Hospital, were also named Coronation Medal recipients.
The Faculty of Law also wishes to congratulate Coronation Medal recipients, Florence Ashley (SJD 2023) and Gregory Radisic (LLM 2023).
A doctoral graduate of the Faculty of Law, Ashley is an assistant professor at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law and adjunct member of the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre.
As the first openly transfeminine clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada and transdisciplinary transfeminine scholar, Ashley is a frequent contributor to public discussion on trans and queer issues. While attending U of T, Ashley published Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis (UBC Press, 2022).
Ashley was nominated by Egale Canada, a leading national organization for 2SLGBTQI people and issues.
Radisic is a lawyer with the Alberta Securities Commission, supporting emerging Canadian tech innovators and startups.
During his master’s studies at U of T’s Faculty of Law, Radisic researched emerging legal questions within the aerospace industry, proposing solutions within current national and international regulatory frameworks.
He has continued this work as a research fellow with For All Moonkind Inc., Institute on Space Law and Ethics, based in New York City. Radisic is examining questions of orbital regulation, applications of international law by the commercial space industry, Indigenous perspectives on international space regulation, and more.
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