COVID-19: des membres du RGHL reçoivent une subvention de recherche MI4
Au mois d'avril, les professeures Lara Khoury et Alana Klein, avec leur collaboratrice la professeure Marie-Eve Couture Ménard (U. Sherbrooke), ont reçu des fonds de l’initiative MI4 Emergency COVID-19 Research Funding (ECRF) de McGill pour leur projet intitulé « Le droit en période de pandémie : pouvoirs et responsabilité en situation d’urgence ».
Apprenez-en davantage dans une entrevue publiée dans l'édition d'avril 2020 de la revue Focus online de la Faculté de droit de McGill.
Échos du projet
- "L'urgence sanitaire et la justification des restrictions aux droits et libertés", conférence pour l'Association du Barreau Canadien, Alana Klein, 9 octobre 2020.
- "Masterclass: Pandemic in a Pandemic - COVID-19 and Law", webcast on COVID-19 and systemic racism with Lara Khoury, Adelle Blackett and Robert Leckey, 25 September 2020.
- "CHSLDs in Court: Thoughts on Government’s and Managers’ Liability", post on the "Learning from COVID" IHSP blog by Lara Khoury, 29 June 2020.
- "Gestion de l'incertitude en contexte d'urgence sanitaire", Webinaire avec la participation de Marie-Eve Couture-Ménard, 20 juin 2020.
A Comparative Grid of Provincial Health Emergency Powers in Canada [.pdf], Marie-Eve Couture-Ménard & Rebecca Schur, 19 June 2020.- “State Power and Accountability in Pandemic Times,” IHSP Webinar with Lara Khoury, Alana Klein, and Marie-Eve Couture-Ménard, 16 June 2020.
- "Pandémie(s) et libertés fondamentales" (1h 2min) Webinaire du Réseau de recherche en santé des populations, avec Marie-Eve Couture-Ménard, 2 juin 2020.
- "Crise sanitaire: pouvez-vous poursuivre le gouvernement?" (10 min) L'émission Les Effrontées de QUB radio en entrevue avec Lara Khoury, 28 mai 2020.
- "Responsabilité de l'État. Vers une épidémie d'actions collectives post-pandémie?" Lara Khoury, La Presse, 26 mai 2020.
- "Power, people and the pandemic: the legal sides of COVID-19." Lara Khoury, Alana Klein, and Marie-Eve Couture-Ménard, McGill Checks In Live Webcast (YouTube), 21 May 2020.
- "Les 'personnages' de la santé publique: à chacun son rôle." Marie-Eve Couture-Ménard, Le Soleil, 10 mai 2020.
- Powers and accountability in the face of emergency. Med eNews, 1 May 2020 (translation of our original Focus Law online French-language interview).
Mentions dans les médias
- Marc Thibodeau: "Boycotter le masque, un geste «patriotique»?" La Presse, 26 mai 2020.
Travaux connexes
- Lara Khoury. "Crises sanitaires et responsabilité étatique envers la collectivité" [.pdf]. (2016) 46 Revue de droit de l'Université de Sherbrooke 262-289.
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Health as a social and academic priority
Health issues are at the forefront of modern social preoccupations in Canada. McGill’s Faculty of Law offers an array of opportunities for those who seek to explore these issues through academic study and research.
Public health, aging, health and the environment, biotechnologies, global health, the growing prevalence of obesity and other chronic health conditions and illnesses, HIV/AIDS and the spread of infectious diseases, access to health care institutions and technology, the governance of health care institutions, human rights and health, clinical research and the protection of human research subjects, social diversity and health, and Aboriginal health exemplify topics of preeminence in the minds of Canadians that McGill’s Faculty of Law has also identified as priorities.
A tradition
McGill’s Faculty of Law has a strong tradition in health law. Emeritus Professor Paul-André Crépeau (1975-1994) published a seminal work titled La responsabilité civile du médecin et de l'établissement hospitalier in 1956, which contributed in a major way to the development of Medical Law in Quebec. It houses the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law, founded in 1986, whose founding director, Margaret A. Somerville, was a prominent scholar in Bioethics. The Crépeau Centre for Private & Comparative Law, founded in 1975, also demonstrates the Faculty’s commitment to health law through, inter alia, the work of Me Pierre Deschamps C.M., Project Director - Medical Law and the Ethics of Research and Organisations.
Teaching and research in health law
McGill University and its Faculty of Law offer an exceptional and unique space for transsystemic, comparative and pluridisciplinary pedagogy and scholarship on health law matters. A number of courses that address health law and policy questions are offered to our undergraduate and graduate students. Several colleagues also act as supervisors to graduate students working on projects that deal with issues of health and medical law.
Health research initiatives underway at McGill’s Faculty of Law investigate diverse themes of pressing importance within both academic and societal realms. The Law Faculty is also host to various research centres which oversee work bearing a direct impact on health issues. In recognition of the growing importance of this discipline, the McGill Research Group on Health and Law was formed with a view to advancing health law research within the Faculty of Law.
Vibrant student initiatives
Students at McGill Law are also at the core of the Faculty’s commitment to teaching and research in the area of health law. The Faculty-wide enthusiasm for health law studies is demonstrated by student initiatives such as the McGill Journal of Law and Health.
