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.
Mercredi 12 février 2020, de 17h30 à 19h, salle 200, Nouveau Pavillon Chancellor-Day
The RGHL hosted an interdisciplinary panel on egg freezing, where Professor Vardit Ravinsky, Dr Karen Buzaglo, and Dr Katie Hammond discussed the legal, ethical and medical debates surrounding social egg freezing from a Canadian viewpoint. The panel was moderated by Professor Alana Klein.
Over 60 people from the legal and academic communities attended the event.
Merci à nos panélistes pour leur participation!
Brain Injuries in Sports: from Awareness to Action
15 January 2020, 13h-14h30, New Chancellor Day Hall, Maxwell Cohen Moot Court
Image by Lysanne Larose.
Le 15 janvier dernier, plus d’une centaine de membres de la communauté mcgilloise et de la communauté juridique ont participé à notre conférence annuelle.
Ken Dryden (LLB'73), lawyer, former member of Parliament, and former goalie of the Montreal Canadiens shared his thoughts on the role of the law in preventing brain injuries in sports. Drawing from his personal experience, he explained why and how we could influence current practices and regulations in sports. He concluded his presentation with the message that it is more important for us to be focusing on preventing this type of injury, rather than developing better diagnosis and treatment tools.
Thank you, Mr. Dryden, for a presentation that was greatly appreciated by the large audience!
The Challenges in Access to Healthcare for Intersex Individuals
9 January 2020, 17h-18h30, Old Chancellor Day Hall, Stephen Scott Seminar Room (OCDH 16)
On January 9, many members of the McGill community attended the RGHL’s first seminar of the new year.
Yann Joly (DCL'09), Research Director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy (CGP), discussed the challenges faced by intersex individuals in interacting with the healthcare system. His presentation focused on the research currently being done at the CGP. In discussing some preliminary findings, the speaker acknowledged the pressure faced by parents to consent to surgeries, the need to prohibit or delay unnecessary “normalising” treatment of intersex persons, and the need to develop training material on the ethical and social aspects of disclosing intersex conditions. He concluded with a discussion of the need to develop better guidance for health care practitioners in this field.
Merci au professeur Joly pour avoir généreusement partagé ses connaissances sur le sujet avec nous!
Pathology, Experts and the Law: Lessons from a case study of involuntary admission to psychiatric facilities
18 November 2019, 12h30-14h, New Chancellor Day Hall, room 200
On November 18, 2019 many members of the McGill community attended our second seminar of the year.
Dr. Agnieszka Doll’s presentation was centered around involuntary admission into psychiatric facilities, and how legal and psychiatric opinions on patients are created. In particular, she focused on the role of paramedics in the admission process, as first responders generating facts about the mental state of the patient.
Dr. Doll discussed the social relations that impact their work, such as the interplay between their role and the role of psychiatrists, as well as the effect of institutional priorities. (See her abstract.)
Les procès climatiques: pour une approche globale des ordres du droit
Image by Lysanne Larose.
30 septembre 2019, 16h-18h, Stephen Scott Seminar Room (OCDH 16)
Le GRSD était ravi de recevoir plusieurs étudiants ainsi que plusieurs membres de la communauté juridique et académique qui sont venus participer à son premier séminaire de l’automne.
Mathilde Hautereau-Boutonnet, professeure de droit privé à l'Université Aix-Marseille et spécialiste en droit de l'environnement, a discuté des limites de l’ordre international ainsi que des atouts de l’ordre interne et de l’ordre international dans le contexte des procès climatiques.
Elle a également donné plusieurs exemples internationaux d’actions environnementales contre les états et les entreprises.
Elle a terminé sa présentation en concluant que le succès de ces procès devrait s’obtenir par un mélange de ces ordres du droit.
Un grand merci à la Professeure Hautereau-Boutonnet pour avoir donné cette conférence fort intéressante!
2019 Graduate Health Law Colloquium
3-4 May 2019, McGill University Faculty of Law
In early May, graduate students from McGill University and the University of Ottawa came together for a two day colloquium to present on research related to health law and policy. Topics included assisted reproduction in Canada, the legality of transgender reparative therapy, police use of force against persons with mental health disabilities, and medical assistance in dying. The conference was organized by McGill RGHL convenors Lara Khoury and Alana Klein and director for the Ottawa Centre for Health Law Ethics and Policy, Colleen Flood.
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25 April 2019, University of Nantes, France
Lara Khoury, convenor of McGill's Research Group on Health and Law, along with Ma'n H. Zawati, executive director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy at McGill University both spoke at the international Data Santé colloquium at the University of Nantes. The colloquium took place on April 25, 2019 and explored big data and public health.
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.
This book deals with novel questions surrounding the attribution of responsibility and risk allocation in the field of technology and genetics. Taking a comparative approach, the book features chapters by scholars from 14 jurisdictions. Authors show how their respective legal systems are addressing new challenges raised by genetic testing in insurance and employment. Yann Joly, a member of the RGHL, penned the chapter on Quebec.
La sécurité des produits de consommation est une préoccupation autant sociétale que juridique. Certes, la population bénéficie de l’innovation technologique et du développement de nouveaux produits. En même temps, elle pardonne assez mal les atteintes à la santé qui découlent de la matérialisation de dangers et de risques souvent méconnus au moment de la mise en marché. Cet ouvrage collectif pose un regard croisé sur le point de rencontre entre le droit de la sécurité et celui de la responsabilité.
"En juin 2017 avait lieu la deuxième édition des Rencontres en droit de la santé/Health Law Academic Seminars sous le thème Health Law at the Frontier/Le droit de la santé aux frontières. Quatorze spécialistes canadiens et étrangers se sont réunis pour explorer le thème de la frontière en santé, qu’elle soit géographique, sociale ou technologique. Ce volume regroupe les textes de leurs conférences."
"En novembre 2014, des chercheurs canadiens, suisses et français, provenant du milieu universitaire et professionnel, se sont réunis autour du thème « Les grands conflits en droit de la santé ». Ces chercheurs étaient invités à identifier un conflit d'actualité et significatif afin d'en discuter de manière approfondie et collégiale. Des sujets aussi riches que variés ont été abordés à cette occasion et sont ici réunis dans ce volume."
A Comparative Grid of Provincial Health Emergency Powers in Canada Marie-Eve Couture-Ménard & Rebecca Schur, 19 June 2020.
On January 9, many members of the McGill community attended the RGHL’s first seminar of the new year.
