Roojin Habibi discusses human rights in the context of public health emergency prevention, preparedness and response, and against the backdrop of larger reforms happening in the international legal space.
Join the Centre for Law, Technology and Society for an interdisciplinary conversation on the ethical, legal and societal implications of artificial intelligence with leading law, policy and ethics scholars from around the globe.
While the development of virtual care has been propelled by the COVID-19 pandemic, its legal framework remains uncertain in Canada. In most provinces and territories, virtual care remains difficult to access through public systems.
Seeking submissions to speak at a Symposium on the occasion of the retirement of Martha Jackman from the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa. The Symposium will center on social justice through teaching, scholarship, test case litigation and feminist activism. Deadline: Sept 24 2023.
On the occasion of the retirement of Martha Jackman from the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, a Symposium honoring her work will be held at the University on May 23, 2024. The Symposium will center on the legal commitments that have animated Professor Jackman's career pursuing social justice through teaching, scholarship, test case litigation and feminist activism. We encourage submissions on the topics that have defined Professor Jackman's vision of a just society:
Deadline for submissions is September 26, 2023.
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On the occasion of the retirement of Martha Jackman from the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, a Symposium honoring her work will be held at the University on May 23, 2024. The Symposium will center on the legal commitments that have animated Professor Jackman's career pursuing social justice through teaching, scholarship, test case litigation and feminist activism. We encourage submissions on the topics that have defined Professor Jackman's vision of a just society:
Deadline for submissions is September 26, 2023.
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Acting Director Sophie Nunnelley is among the latest cohort of Fellows in Compassion and Artificial Intelligence (AI) awarded by AMS Healthcare. AI has been embraced by some as a tool for addressing accessibility problems in mental healthcare—for example, AI-powered chatbots offer therapy, and AI algorithms harness social media data to detect suicidal ideation. While AI holds promise in this context, it raises the significant concern that it could exacerbate inequality if improperly regulated. Sophie’s project takes up law’s role in ensuring human rights-consistent AI use in mental healthcare, focusing on laws relating to capacity, informed consent, and non-discrimination. The core of her project will be a workshop of multidisciplinary experts – including AI innovators, people with lived experience, clinicians, legal scholars, and human rights experts – to examine the law and practice of specific mental health AI technologies, the sufficiency of existing rights frameworks, and priorities for law reform.
CHLPE’s Audrey Ferron Parayre (Civil Law) has obtained funding from CIHR for a three-year project studying the implementation of women’s rights in the context of obstetrical and gynecological violence (OGV). OGV encompasses various forms of abuse, disrespect and mistreatment perpetrated in the context of obstetrical and gynecological care. Examples can include procedures like inducing labour done without the informed consent of the patient, berating and bullying during labour and delivery, ignoring requests for information or help, and more. The project includes funding for two LL.M. students and one Ph.D. Law student—see here for details.
You can watch a discussion of OGV in CHLPE’s lunchtime webinar series in Mieux cerner un enjeu émergent : les violences obstétricales.
Following on from CHLPE's 2021 conference on organ donation and transplantation, Jennifer Chandler spearheaded a collaboration with the Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program to publish a number of fast-fact documents to help us all understand the issues in simple and plain language. Nine documents cover specific issues ranging across opt-in, opt-out, living donation, donation following medical assistance in dying, and many others.
See also our YouTube channel for complete conference videos.
Professor Monique Potvin Kent is the author of a new report funded by Heart & Stroke looking at social media advertising of junk food. These online conversations are driven not only by brands but by individuals, representing a newer form of marketing called user-generated content. Younger people are especially vulnerable to this because of their greater trust and familiarity with people within their social networks...
See also Toronto Star, La Presse op eds.
In a recent interview with CBC, former minister of sport MP Kirsty Duncan related her own story of being abused as an athlete and repeated her call for a national judicial inquiry into abuse in sport. There is mounting pressure on current Minister Pascale St-Onge and the federal government to convene such an inquiry. The campaign has gained momentum in recent weeks after a group of more than 100 scholars signed an open letter in support. Daphne Gilbert was a signatory to that letter and penned an op ed on the topic—you can read the full text in the Ottawa Citizen.
CHLPE's annual conference—and our first hybrid online/in-person one—wrapped up in October. Full panel videos are available on our YouTube channel. This year the topic was border control during COVID and in pandemics to come. Here borders include not just national but also provincial/state borders as well as "borders" within locales like hospitals and long-term care homes. Panels covered history, communication, long-term care, psychiatric institutions, homelessness, migrants and refugees, international case studies and law, vaccine passports and technologies, and more.
