2022-2023 Schedule
Date of Seminar | Speaker | Title |
|---|
Thursday, September 29, 2022 | Colleen Flood, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa | Division of Powers and Policy Options for Canadian Dentalcare (PDF) WATCH or listen on our YouTube channel |
Thursday, October 20, 2022 | Marie Nicolini,
Georgetown University | Suicide Prevention and MAiD for Mental Disorders: The Conceptional Challenge (PDF) WATCH or listen on our YouTube channel |
Thursday, October 27, 2022 | YY Chen, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa | International migrants' right to sexual and reproductive health care (PDF) WATCH or listen on our YouTube channel |
Thursday, November 3, 2022 | Mark Flear, Faculty of Law,
Queen's University Belfast | Responsibilisation of NHS patients and users: Revealing epistemic injustice through street legal ethnography in the North of England and Northern Ireland (PDF) WATCH or listen on our YouTube channel |
Thursday, November 17, 2022 | Veronica Undurraga, Faculty of Law, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Rebecca Cook, Faculty of Law,
University of Toronto | Advancing Gender Equality in Access to Health Care (PDF) WATCH or listen on our YouTube channel |
Thursday, January 19, 2023 | Terry-Lee Marttinen, PhD candidate, Centre for Medical Humanities, Oxford Brookes University Alisa Lombard, LLM candidate, University of Ottawa | Nordic Colonialism, Religious Minorities, and Contemporary Eugenics in Canada (PDF) Recording not available |
Thursday, February 16, 2023 | Sophie Nunnelley, Associate Director, Centre for Health Law, Policy & Ethics, University of Ottawa | Mental Healthcare, Coercion, and the Law: An Autonomy Lens (PDF) WATCH or listen on our YouTube channel |
Thursday, March 16, 2023 | Ignacio Cofone, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in AI, Law & Data Governance, Faculty of Law, McGill University Lisa Austin, Professor & Chair of Law and Technology, Faculty of Law, and Associate Director Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology & Society, University of Toronto | Ethical Surveillance in Vaccine Passports (PDF) Recording not available |
2021-2022 Schedule
Date of Seminar
| Speaker | Title |
|---|
Thursday October 14 2021 | Lisa Forman, Canada Research Chair in Human Rights & Global Health Equity, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto | “Can we move beyond vaccine apartheid? The right to health and global access to COVID vaccines” |
Thursday October 28, 2021 | Sonu K. Gaind, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto Commentator: Derryck H. Smith, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia | "Canada's Headlong Assisted Death Expansion: Compassionate Medical Assistance in Dying, or Negligent Social Suicide Promotion?" WATCH on YouTube |
| Thursday, November 11, 2021 | Jillian Clare Kohler, PhD Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, Dalla Lana School of Public Health & Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Commentators: Jonathan Cushing, Transparency International and Mostafa Hunter, Corruption and Risk Management, UNDP | “Corruption Risks in the Deployment of COVID-19 Vaccines: A Clear and Present Threat to Global Public Health” |
| January 20, 2022 | Leigh Turner, Director, Centre for Bioethics, University of California Irvine Commentator:
Amy Zarzeczny, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina | "The American Stem Cell Sell: Bioethics, Law, and U.S. Businesses Selling Unproven and Unlicensed "Stem Cell" Interventions" WATCH on YouTube Event Poster (PDF) |
| February 3, 2022 | Patrick Garon-Sayegh, SJD candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto Commentators:
Bernard Dickens, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto Ross Upshur, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto | "Of Medical Malpractice and Methodology: Health Law Research and the Quality of Clinical Care" WATCH on YouTube Event Poster (PDF) |
| February 17, 2022 | Ruqaiijah Yearby, Professor, Faculty of Law, Saint Louis University, Commentator:
Emily Simmonds, Centre for Wise Practices in Indigenous Health, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto | "Systemic Racism, The Government's Pandemic Response, and Racial Inequalities in COVID-19" WATCH on YouTube Event Poster (PDF) |
| March 2, 2022 | Deborah Stienstra, Jarislowsky Chair in Social Work Director, Life Work Well Research Centre & Valérie Grand'Maison, researcher, Live Work Well Research Centre, Guelph University Commentators:
Sarah Jama, co-founder Disability Justice Network of Ontario Gabrielle Peters, co-founder Disability Filibuster | "Consistently excluded: A disability inclusion analysis of Canada’s COVID-19 policies" WATCH on YouTube Event Poster (PDF) |
| March 31, 2022 | Kevin Bardosh, PhD, Affiliate Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, University of Washington Stefan Baral, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Rachel Gur-Arie, PhD, Hecht-Levi Fellow, Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University Trudo Lemmens, LLM (bioethics), DCL, Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy, Faculty of Law and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto Commentators:
Alison Thompson, PhD, Associate Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto Bill Bogart, LLB, LLM, Distinguished Professor of Law, Windsor University Faculty of Law Peter Doshi, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy | "The Unintended Consequences of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates: Why They May Cause More Harm Than Good" WATCH on YouTube Event Poster (PDF) |
2019-2020 Schedule
Date of Seminar
| Speaker | Title |
|---|
September 5
Thursday | Chloe Romanis
Faculty of Law
University of Manchester | Artificial Womb Technology and the Choice to Gestate Ex Utero: Is Partial Ectogenesis the Business of the Criminal Law?
Watch the seminar on YouTube |
September 26
Thursday | John Dawson
Faculty of Law, University of
Otago
| "House arrest" under a Community Treatment Order and the interpretation of mental health legislation |
October 17
Thursday | Calvin Ho
Faculty of Medicine, University of Singapore | Regulatory Governance of Al in Health Care |
November 21
Thursday | Bernard Dickens
Faculty of Law,
University of Toronto | Post-Abortion Care: Legal and Ethical Issues |
January 31
Friday | Jody Madeira
University of Indiana Commentator:
Michaël Lessard, SJD student University of Toronto Faculty of Law, and lawyer | Understanding Illicit Insemination and fertility fraud, from patient experience to legal reform Watch the seminar on YouTube |
February 13
Thursday | Matiangai Sirleaf
University of Pittsburgh Law School | Race, Fear and Global Health |
March 12
Thursday | Britta van Beers
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Law | Rewriting the human genome, rewriting human rights law? Human rights, human dignity and human germline editing in the CRISPR era |
2018-2019 Schedule
Date of Seminar
| Speaker | Title |
|---|
September 20
Thursday | Bill Bogart
Emeritus Professor
Faculty of Law
University of Windsor | Regulating Cannabis -
A Prelude to Legalizing All Recreational Drugs
Watch the seminar on YouTube |
October 4
Thursday | Donrich W. Thaldar
Professor
School of Law, University of
KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
| Tradition and Justice: Legal Developments Relating to New Reproductive Technologies in South Africa |
October 18
Thursday | Alana Klein
Associate Professor
Faculty of Law, McGill University | The Renewal of the Judicial Function in the Protecting of Health: Contrasting Visions in Constitutional, Criminal and Private Law |
November 22
Thursday | Josephine Johnston
Research Scholar
The Hastings Center | Genetics, Parents, and Children: How Novel Technologies Challenge Ideas about Parental Responsibility Watch the seminar on YouTube |
November 22 Thursday
(7PM) | Vida Panitch, Associate Professor, Carleton University’s Department of Philosophy and Françoise Baylis, University Research Professor, Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Medicine | For and Against: The prohibition on payment for surrogacy and gametes in Canada should be repealed Watch the Public Debate on YouTube |
November 23
Friday
(all-day event) | Health Law Policy and Ethics in Canada: Regulating Creation and the Assisted Human Reproduction Act | Find out more about this symposium (PDF) |
January 24
Thursday | Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law and Institute for Health and Social Policy, McGill University | What is Disability? Theoretical Strategies to Define a Contested Concept Watch the video of the seminar |
February 7
Thursday | Quinn Grundy, Assistant Professor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto | Conflicts of interest in clinical settings: Understanding marketing to nurses, the most trusted profession Watch the video of the seminar |
March 7
Thursday | Beverly Jacobs, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Windsor University | Practicing Indigenous Laws Protects Wholistic Health Watch the video of this seminar |
March 21
Thursday | Tara Gomes, Dan Werb, Sheila Jennings | Tackling the Opioid Crisis: Where We Are and What Needs to Be Done Watch the video of this seminar |
May 2 | K.Sonu Gaind, Scott Y.H Kim, Trudo Lemmens, Marcia Sokolowski, Donna E. Stewart, Alison Thompson. Harvey Schipper | Expert Round Table on Medical Assistance in Dying in the Context of Mental Health and Dementia Find out more about this seminar Watch the video of this seminar |
2017-2018 Schedule
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 |
2016-2017 Schedule
Date of Seminar
| Speaker | Title |
|---|
October 6
Thursday | Mary Shariff
Associate Professor & Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba | Endgame: Clinical and Legal Distinctions between Palliative Care and Termination of Life Comentator: David Baker, B.A., LL.B., LL.M., L.S.M., Bakerlaw |
October 20
Thursday | The Honourable Susan E. Lang
retired Judge, Ontario Court of Appeal | The Motherisk Drug Testing Programme: What Went Wrong, and What to Do? |
November 3
Thursday | Rebecca Cook
Professor Emerita, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto | Lessons Learned from the Zika Amicus Brief |
November 17
Thursday | Andelka Phillips
Ussher Assistant Professor in Information Technology Law, School of Law, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) | Contracting Away DNA - Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests for Health, Love, and More…. |
January 19
Thursday | Thana Cristina de Campos
Faculty Associate, Global Strategy Lab, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa | Is the Right to Health a Right to Well-Being? Distinguishing Essential and Non-Essential Health Needs Commentator: Lisa Forman, Canada Research Chair in Human Rights and Global Health Equity; Asst. Professor Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Univ. of Toronto |
February 2
Thursday | Luca Genovese
Researcher, Access to Medicines Foundation (The Netherlands) | The Access to Medicines Index
(Seminar Co-organized with the WHO Collaborating Centre for Governance, Accountability and Transparency for the Pharmaceutical Sector) |
February 16
Thursday | Martin Hevia
Professor and Executive Dean, Faculty of Law, University Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires (Argentina) | The Legal Status of Surrogacy Agreements and the Inter- American Convention on Human Rights |
March 9
Thursday | Colin Gavaghan
Associate Professor and New Zealand Law Foundation Director in Emerging Technologies, Faculty of Law, University of Otago (New Zealand) | Reproductive Technologies and the Search for Regulatory Legitimacy |
2015-2016 Schedule
Date of Seminar
| Speaker | Title |
|---|
Thursday
September 11 | Ubaka Ogbogu
Assistant Professor
Faculties of Law and Pharmacy
University of Alberta | The Return of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: Why Mandatory Immunization is the Right Policy Option
Commentator:
Camille Lemieux
Associate Director, Infection Prevention and Control
University Health Network; Assistant Professor,
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
|
Thursday
October 9 | John Dawson
Professor, Faculty of Law
University of Otago (New Zealand) | Randomized Controlled Trials of Community Treatment Order Regimes
Commentator:
Tess Sheldon
PhD candidate, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
University of Toronto |
Thursday
October 16 | | Health Law Session within the University of Toronto-Tsinghua University Joint Conference (TBC) |
Thursday
November 13 | Colleen Flood
Professor
Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa | Using the Charter to Privatize Medicare Commentator:
Y.Y. Brendon Chen
Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto Co-sponsored by the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights
|
Thursday
January 15
| Angela Campbell
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law McGill University | Engaging with Surrogates' Choices: Tracing and Proscribing Viable Mothers in Law
Commentators:
Brenda Cossman
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Kyle Kirkup, PhD Candidae and Trudeau Fellow
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto |
Thursday
February 5 | Michael L. Perlin, Professor
Director, International Mental Disability Law Program
New York Law School | All His Sexless Patients”: Persons with Mental Disabilities and the Competence to Have Sex
Commentator: Sophie Nunnely, lawyer and SJD Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto |
Thursday
February 12 | Steven Hoffman
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa | Achieving Global Collective Action for Improving Access to Antimicrobials and Sustaining their Effectiveness
Commentator:
Paul Grootendorst
Director, Social and Administrative Pharmacy and Associate Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
University of Toronto |
Thursday
February 26 | Eric Feldman
Professor, Faculty of Law
University of Pennsylvania | E-Cigarettes: A New Challenge for Law and Public Health?
Commentator:
Robert Schwartz
Executive Director, Ontario Tobacco Research Unit and Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto |
Thursday
March 12 | Shannon Gibson
Research Associate
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto | Regulating Direct to Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs in the Digital Era Commentator: TBD
|
2013-2014
September 19
Colleen Grogan
School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
The Hidden Politics of Population and Public Health Policies in the US
Commentator:
Terrence Sullivan
Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
*Co-sponsored by the School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto
October 24
Joanna Erdman
Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University
The Influence of Evidence in the Criminalization of Sex
Commentator:
Andrea Charise
Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, University of Iowa
November 14
Bernard Dickens
University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Protection of Conscience in Medical Care
November 21
Norman Daniels
Dept. of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health
Ethical Basis for Excluding Unauthorized Immigrants from the Affordable Care Act
Commentator:
Audrey Macklin
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
*Co-sponsored by the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights and the International Human Rights Program
NEW LOCATION:
Alumni Hall, Victoria College
January 16
Ian Mosby
University of Guelph, Department of History
Truth, Reconciliation, and the Historical Legacy of Human Biomedical Experimentation in Aboriginal Communities and Residential Schools
Commentators:
Trudo Lemmens and Douglas Sanderson
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
February 27
Lorian Hardcastle
University of Toronto Faculty of Law
The Role of Tort Law in Improving Governmental Accountability in the Health Sector
Commentator:
Joan Gilmour
Osgood Hall Law School, York University
March 27
Theodore R. Marmor
Yale School of Management
Court vs. Medicare: Round II of Legal Challenges to Limits on Private Finance of Health Care
2012-2013
Date of Seminar | Speaker | Titles |
| October 11, 2012 | Christina Ho, Assistant Professor, Rutgers School of Law | In Defense of Self-Reference: Circularity and the Affordable Care Act and US Health care reform |
| October 18, 2012 | Amir Attaran, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa | Why and How to Make an International Crime of Medicine Counterfeiting |
| November 1, 2012 | Ted Marmor, Professor Emeritus, Yale School of Management | The US Supreme Court and the Impact of its 2012 Health Reform Reform Decisions |
| February 7, 2013 | Wendy Parmet, Matthews Distinguished University Professor, Northeastern University School of Law | TBA |
| February 28, 2013 | Jocelyn Downie, Professor, Dalhousie University Faculties of Law and Medicine | Poised: End of Life Law and Policy in Canada |
| March 21, 2013 | Allyn Taylor, Visiting Professor, Georgetown University Law Center | An International Legal Strategy for Alcohol Control |
2011 - 2012
September 15
12:30 – 2:00
Trudo Lemmens
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Simon Stern
AssistantProfessor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Why Guest-Authors of Ghostwritten Publications Can Be Held Liable for Fraud
September 29
12:30 – 2:00
(Location: 78 Queen's Park, Flavelle House - Classroom B)
Carl Elliott
Professor, Center for Bioethics and the Departments of Pediatrics and Philosophy, University of Minnesota
The Clinical Trial as a Pharmaceutical Marketing Tool
October 13
12:30 – 2:00
Joel Lexchin
Professor, School of Health Policy and Management, York University
Those Who Have the Gold Make the Evidence: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Clinical Trials
(co-sponsored by the Centre for Innovation Law & Policy)
October 27
12:30 – 2:00
Colleen Flood
Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy and Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Is Canada Odd? European and Canadian Approaches to Choice and Regulation of the Public/Private Divide
November 17 (CANCELLED) please check back for a new date.
12:30 – 2:00
Joanna Erdman
Fellow, the Information Society Project’s Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice, Yale Law School
former Co-Director of the International Reproductive and Sexual Health Law Programme and
founding Director of the Health Equity and Law Clinic at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Access to Information on Safe Abortion: A Harm Reduction and Human Rights Approach
November 24
12:30 – 2:00
Barbara Evans
Associate Professor, Co-director, Health Law & Policy Institute and Director, Center on Biotechnology & Law
University of Houston Law Center
Clinical Translation of Pharmacogenomics Under the U.S. Food & Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007
(co-sponsored by the Centre for Innovation Law & Policy)
January 12
12:30 – 2:00
Saad Abughanm
The Implications of IP Protection on Access to Medicines: lessons from the Jordanian experience
(co-sponsored by the Centre for Innovation Law & Policy)
Friday, January 20 - Note new date and location!
12:30 – 2:00
(Location: Classroom B, Flavelle House - 78 Queen's Park)
Catherine O’Regan
Global Visiting Professor of Law, New York University and Former Constitutional Court Judge, South Africa
Adjudicating the Right to Health in the South African Constitution
(Joint Health Law, Ethics and Policy and Constitutional Roundtable Seminar)
February 2
12:30 – 2:00
Mariana Mota Prado
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Provision of Health Care Services and the Right to Health in Brazil:The long, winding and uncertain road to equality
February 16
12:30 – 2:00
Kevin Outterson
Associate Professor of Law, Bioethics and Human Rights, Boston University
Antibiotic Prize Funds
(co-sponsored by the Centre for Innovation Law & Policy)
March 1
12:30 – 2:00
Aart Hendriks
Professor of Health Law, Faculty of Law, Leiden University
The Regulation of Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide in the Netherlands. An example for Canada?
2010-2011
Click here to see the 2010-2011 schedule (PDF).
Health Law, Ethics and Policy Seminar Series
2009-2010
| Date | Speaker | Title |
September 17
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION
FLC (Classrm C)
Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park | STUDENTS ONLY | |
September 24
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Rebecca Cook
University of Toronto Faculty of Law | Stereotyping Women in the Health Sector |
October 15
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Charles Ngwena
University of the Free State, South Africa | Conceiving Access to Health Care as a Right: Lessons from South Africa on the Limits of Justiciability |
October 29
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | CANCELLED Herman Nys
Catholic University of Leuven | Europe's Experience with Patients' Rights Charters |
November 12
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Joseph White
Case Western Reserve University | The Puzzling Politics of Spending Control in the Current U.S. Health Care Reform Debate |
NEW DATE
November 19
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 LOCATION
FLC (Classrm C)
Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park | Richard Elliott
Director, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network | Delivering on the Pledge: Reforming Canada's Access to Medicines Regimes |
December 3
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | STUDENTS ONLY CANCELLED | |
January 14
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Philippe Couillard
McGill University | The Chaoulli ruling and the government response: 4 years later |
January 28
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Joan Gilmour
Osgoode Hall Law School | The Newfoundland and Labrador Commission of Inquiry on Hormone Receptor Testing: Understanding the Standard of Care in Laboratory Testing |
February 11
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Donald Light
Lorry Lokey Visiting Professor
Stanford University THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND CHANGED TO: Colleen Flood Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto | Advanced Market Commitments: Current Realities and Alternate Approaches Charter Rights & Health Care Funding: A Typology of Health Rights Litigation |
February 25
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Scott Burris
Temple University | Stigma from a Public Health Law Perspective: Research Questions and Ethical Issues
|
March 11
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Lars Noah
University of Florida | Coerced Participation in Clinical Trials: Conscripting Human Research Subjects |
March 25
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Ted Ormston
Consent and Capacity Board | Mental Health and the Law |
Health Law and Policy Seminar Series
2008-2009
The Health Law & Policy Seminars are co-sponsored by the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
September 4
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | STUDENTS ONLY | |
October 2
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Gregg Bloche
Georgetown University Law School | The Emergent Logic of Health Law |
October 16
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Vanessa Gruben
University of Ottawa
Faculty of Law | Privacy and the AHRA: Assisting in the Collection of Information for the Assisted Human Reproduction Agency of Canada |
November 20
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Jonathan Berger
AIDS Law Project | Institutions Matter: The Right to Health, the Regulation of Medicines and the South African Constitution |
November 27
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Mary Anne Bobinski
University of British Columbia
Faculty of Law | The U.S. Perspective on the Health Insurance Debate in Canada |
December 4
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | STUDENTS ONLY | |
January 22
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Mary Wiktorowicz
York University
Health Policy & Management | Mental health network governance and coordination: Comparative analysis across ten regions |
January 29
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Martin Hevia
Joanna Erdman
University of Toronto | The Right Against Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment: Termination of an Anencephalic Pregnancy |
February 5
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Constance MacIntosh
Dalhousie University Law School | Dirty Water, Dirty Hands: Public Health Deficits and Water Quality Debacles on First Nation Reserves |
February 12
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION:
Classroom C
78 Queen's Park | Aeyal Gross
Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law | The Right to Health in the Era of Privatization: Public Health/Private Rights or Private Health/Public Rights
|
March 12
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Jane Kay
Oxford University | Data-Sharing of Research Data - What are the implications?
|
March 26
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Theodore R. Marmour
Yale University School of Management | Reflections on Medicare Across the North American Border |
Health Law and Policy Seminar Series
2007 - 2008
| Date | Speaker | Title |
September 12
Wednesday
12:30 - 2:00 | Naina Kapur
Sakshi Center | Public Interest vs. Public Interest |
September 19
Wednesday
12:30 - 2:00
NEW LOCATION:
Abella Moot Court Room
78 Queen's Park | Paul Hunt
Human Rights Center, University of Essex
Co-sponsored by the International Human Rights Program. | Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health: Opportunities and Challenges |
NEW DATE:
October 3
Wednesday
12:30 - 2:00 | Ron Bouchard
University of Toronto, Faculty of Law | Commercializaton of Publicly-funded Medical Technologies: A Third Way |
October 25
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Stephen Smith
University of Birmingham Law School | Regulating Assisted Dying: Slippery Slopes and Other Myths |
November 1
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Ted Schrecker
University of Ottawa | Challenging the global marketplace: The rights to health and why it matters |
November 22
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Joanna Erdman
University of Toronto | In the Back Alleys of Health Care: Abortion, Equality and Community in Canada |
November 29
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Marie-Claude Premont
McGill University Faculty of Law | Post-Chaoulli direction for healthcare: Worrisome signs from Quebec |
December 6
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Richard Gold
McGill University Faculty of Law | Myriad Genetics: Caught in the Eye of a Policy Storm |
January 10
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Timothy Jost
Washington and Lee University
School of Law | Legal Barriers to Universal Health Care Coverage in the United States |
January 24
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Maurice Adams
University of Antwerp | The regulation of euthanasia in Belgium (and the Netherlands): legal and socio-legal aspects |
NEW DATE:
February 7
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00
NEW LOCATION:
Classroom A
78 Queen's Park | Aeyal Gross
Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law | Health Between a Right and a
Commodity: A Comparative Analysis of the Israeli Experience
|
February 14
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | David Henry
President & CEO, Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) | The Australia/USA Free Trade Agreement - impact on access to medicines |
March 6
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Chidi Oguamanam
Dalhousie University Law School | The Future of Personalized Medicine and Personalizing the Medicine of the Future: In Search of Insights from Complementary and Alternative Medicine |
NEW DATE
March 13 (Thurs)
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION
Classroom A
78 Queen's Park | Jill Horwitz
University of Michigan Law School | What do Nonprofits Maximize? Nonprofit Hospital Service Provision and Market Ownership Mix |
March 20
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | William Lahey
Dalhousie University Law School | Inter-Professional Practice and the Law: Understanding and Overcoming the Barriers |
Health Law and Policy Seminar Series
2006-2007
Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars are held in the Solarium (room FA2), Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, 84 Queen's Park.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
September 7
12:10 - 2:00 | Michael Decter
Chair, Health Council of Canada | The Evolution of Canadian Health Care: Poetry, Policy and Prospects |
September 14
12:10 – 2:00 | Ted Marmor
Yale School of Management
LOCATION:
Abella Moot Court Room
78 Queen's Park | Policy Analysis: Putting it All Together |
September 21
12:10 - 2:00 | Stefan Gress
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany | Social and private health insurance in Germany: Consequences of the 2006 health care reform |
September 25
MONDAY
12:10 - 2:00 | Marie Bismark
Senior Solicitor, Buddle Findlay
(New Zealand) | New Zealand's No-Fault Accident Compensation Scheme |
October 5
12:10 - 2:00 | Edward P. Richards
Louisiana State University Law Center | When Moral Hazard Becomes Mortal Hazard - Policy Failures Leading to the Hurricane Katrina Disaster |
October 12
12:10 - 2:00 | Jacob Hacker
Yale University
LOCATION:
Abella Moot Court Room, 78 Queen's Park | Dismantling the Health Care State? Political Institutions, Public Policies, and the Comparative Politics of Health Reform |
October 26
12:10 - 2:00 | Jacqueline Fox
University of South Carolina School of Law | Reinvigorating the Concept of Benefit: The Failure of Drug Company-Sponsored Research on Human Subjects |
November 2
12:10 - 2:00 | Nola Ries
University of Alberta | Is the Law Fit to Combat Fat? Addressing the Obesity Epidemic through Food Regulation and Litigation |
NEW DATE
January 11
12:10 - 2:00 | Daniel Callahan
The Hastings Center
LOCATION:
Classroom FLA, 78 Queen's Park | Medicine, the Market, and Unsustainable Progess |
February 1
12:10 - 2:00 | Ariel Katz
University of Toronto, Faculty of Law | Pharmaceutical Lemons: The Effect of Patents and Regulation in the Drug Industry |
NEW DATE
February 15
12:10 - 2:00 | Sanda Rogers
University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law
NEW LOCATION:
Classroom FLA, 78 Queen's Park | Misconceived: Women's Reproductive Equality and the Supreme Court of Canada |
March 1
12:10 - 2:00 | Joan H. Krause
University of Houston Law Center | The Ethics of Influence: Pharmaceutical Companies and Medical Practice |
March 15
12:10 - 2:00 | Mark Hall
Wake Forest University School of Law and School of Medicine; and Babcock School of Management | The History and Future of Health Care Law: An Essentialist View |
March 22
12:10 - 2:00 | Joan M. Gilmour
Osgoode Hall Law School
LOCATION:
Classroom FLA, 78 Queen's Park | Patient Safety, Medical Error and Tort Law: Where To From Here? |
March 29
12:10 - 2:00 | Toni Ashton
University of Auckland, Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences | Contracting for health services in a 'decentralized' health system
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May 1 (Tuesday)
4:00 - 6:00
LOCATION:
Auditorium
(Room 610)
Health Sciences Bldg.
155 College Str. | Pauline Allen
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Wine and Cheese Reception to follow in room 208, Health Sciences Building. Please RSVP to Nadia Gulezko at
n.gulezko@utoronto.ca
| Moving Towards the Market Again: Supply Side Reform in Recent English Healchare Policy
|
Health Law and Policy Seminar Series
2005-2006
Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars are held in the Solarium (room FA2), Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, 84 Queen's Park.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
September 8
12:10 - 2:00 | Students only. | |
September 15
12:10 – 2:00 | Lawrence Gostin
Georgetown University
New Location:
Classroom FLA, Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park
Lawrence Gostin's visit is organized in the context of a research project on "Insurance and Health Systems Implications of Genetics", which is funded by a grant from Genome Canada, through the Ontario Genomics Institute. | Health of the People: The Highest Law? |
September 22
12:10 - 2:00 | Charles Ngwena
University of the Free State, South Africa
Co-sponsored with the International Human Rights Program. | Equality, Access to Health Care and the Constitution: A South African Perspective |
September 29
12:10 - 2:00 | Dianne Nicol
Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania
Dianne Nicol's visit is organized in the context of a research project on "Insurance and Health Systems Implications of Genetics", which is funded by a grant from Genome Canada, through the Ontario Genomics Institute. | Genetic Tests and Gene Patenting: Can the Relationship Work? |
October 20
12:10 – 2:00 | Keith Syrett
School of Law, University of Bristol
New Location:
Classroom FLA, Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park | Deliberating on the Rationing of Health Care: Rethinking the Role of the Courts |
October 27
12:10 – 2:00 | Ted Marmor
Yale University | Comparative Policy Analysis and the Medical Care World |
November 3
12:10 - 2:00 | Gilbert Sharpe and Raisa Deber
University of Toronto | The Supreme Court and Chaoulli |
November 17
12:10 - 2:00 | Sheila Wildeman
Dalhousie University
LOCATION:
Room FA3 Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park | Autonomy, Insight, and Psychiatric Treatment Choice: Starson's Catch-22 |
November 24
12:10 - 2:00 | Timothy Jost
Washington and Lee University School of Law | Consumer-Driven Health Care: United States and International Experiences |
December 8
12:10 - 2:00 | Catherine Regis
University of Toronto | Dispute Resolution in Health Care: A Law and Psychology Approach |
January 19
12:10 - 2:00
NEW DATE | Trudo Lemmens
University of Toronto | Is Medical Research in Crisis? And Will Registration of Clinical Trials Restore Public Trust? |
January 26
12:10 - 2:00 | Sherry Glied
Columbia University | Regret, Envy, and Efficiency: The Economics of Equity in Health Care |
February 2
12:10 - 2:00 | Carolyn Tuohy
University of Toronto | Quality, Accessibility, Sustainability: Can We Have All Three in Health Care? |
February 9
12:10 - 2:00 | Mita Giacomini
McMaster University | Reasons and reasoning in decisions to publicly insure health technologies |
March 2
12:10 - 2:00 | Colleen Flood
University of Toronto | Prospects and Pitfalls in Regulating Private Health Care Insurance |
March 16
12:10 - 2:00 | Michael Waite
University of Alberta | To Tell the Truth: The Ethical, Legal and Patient Safety Implications of Disclosure of Medical Error and the Need for Reform |
March 30
12:10 - 2:00 | Barbara von Tigerstrom
University of Saskatchewan | The Revised International Health Regulations and Restraint of National Health |
NEW DATE:
April 4
(Tuesday)
12:10 - 2:00 | Adalstein Brown
University of Toronto
NEW LOCATION:
Classroom FLB, Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park | Reflections on Hospital Governance: Variations in practice and their implications for the new world of hospital (and local) governance |
NEW
April 18
(Tuesday)
12:10 - 2:00 | Dr. Gregory P. Marchildon
Graduate School of Public Policy
University of Regina
NEW LOCATION:
Faculty Lounge, Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park | Canadian Health Care: A Comparative View from the European Observatory
With introductory remarks by
Profesor Richard Saltman, Emory University. |
Health Law and Policy Seminar Series
2004-2005
| Date | Speaker | Title |
September 9
12:10 - 2:00 | Registered students only. | |
September 23
12:10 – 2:00 p.m. | Nitesh Choudhry
Harvard Medical School and the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital | The Paradox of Clinical Experience: The Practice of Older Physicians and Strategies to Change Physician Behaviour |
September 30
12:10 - 2:00
Location:
Bennett Lecture Hall | Roy Romanow
Chair, Commission on the Future of Health Care 2001; Former Premier of Saskatchewan
Reception to follow. | The Past, Present and Future of Medicare |
October 14
12:10 - 2:00 | Raisa Deber
Department of Health Administration, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto | Private Delivery and Public Goals: Mechanisms for Ensuring that Hospitals Can Meet Public Objectives: A Four-Jurisdiction Case Study |
October 28
12:10 – 2:00 | Graeme Laurie*
School of Law, University of Edinburgh, Scotland and Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law | Genetic Privacy: Anti-social concept or fundamental right? |
November 25
12:10 – 2:00 | Dominique Sprumont*
Universities of Neuchatel and Fribourg, Switzerland | The Importance of National Laws in the Internationalization of Clinical Trials
|
December 9
12:10 - 2:00 NEW LOCATION:
Flavelle Dining Room
78 Queen's Park | Carolyn McLeod
Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario; Faculty Fellow, Comparative Program on Health & Society, Munk Centre, University of Toronto. This workshop is co-sponsored by the Feminism and Law Workshop Series. | A Feminism Appraisal of Medical Conscience Clauses |
January 6
12:10 - 2:00 | Tom Archibald
SJD student, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto | From Accommodation to Integration: Facing Tensions Between Health Human Resources Policy and Labour Law in Canadian Health Care |
January 20
12:10 - 2:00 | Jerome Singh*
Director, Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA); Howard College School of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
Standards of Care in the Antiretroviral Rollout World |
February 3
12:10 - 2:00 | Lisa Forman
SJD student, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto | The Role of International Human Rights in Increasing Access to AIDS Medicines in Developing Countries |
February 25
(Friday)
12:10 - 2:00
NEW LOCATION:
Classroom FLA
78 Queen's Park | Maneesha Deckha*
University of Victoria
Co-sponsored by the Feminism and Law and Diversity Workshops. |
Designing, resigning, and maligning?: Ability, sex, and culture in the sex selection debate |
March 3
12:10 - 2:00 | Glenn Rivard*
General Counsel, Health Canada | UNESCO Bioethics Declarations: Ethics, Science and Human Rights in the 21st Century |
March 17
12:10 - 2:00 | Rebecca Cook
Professor of Law & Faculty Chair in International Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto |
The Role of the Courts in Protecting Women's Health |
NEW DATE
March 24
12:10 - 2:00 NEW LOCATION
Classroom FLB
78 Queen's Park | Adriana Petryna*
Department of Anthropology, New School University, New York | Globalizing Clinical Trials: Pharmaceutical Drug Development and the Ethics of Human Subjects Research |
March 29
(Tuesday)
12:10 - 2:00 | Robert Charney
Ministry of the Attorney General Ontario
Mary Eberts, Eberts Symes Street
Co-sponsored by the the Constitutional Roundtable series. |
The Autism Wars: Autism Treatment and the Charter of Rights in Canadian Courts
|
April 7
12:10 - 2:00 | David Wiwchar*
Managing Editor & Southern Region Reporter
Ha-Shilth-Sa - Canada's Oldest First Nations Newspaper | Bad Blood: First Nations communities respond to lacking research ethics guidelines
|
Presentations marked with an * are in part supported by Genome Canada, through the Ontario Genomics Institute, as part of a grant on "International Comparative Perspectives on the Regulation of Genomics Research and on the Implications of Genetic Testing on Health Systems and Insurance."
For more information about these workshops, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca
