Research
Mental Health, Neuroscience
Mental health/illness
Decision making capacity
Forensic psychiatry
Neurolaw (Mind-Brain-Law)
Psychology
Psychiatric injury in tort law
Projects
Hybrid Minds
Hybrid Minds
Jennifer Chandler
The Hybrid Minds project aims to lay the foundation for a unified theoretical approach to the ethical-legal assessment of intelligent neuroprostheses. The approach is informed by the experiences and perspectives of users as well as dialogue with the neuroengineering community and other key stakeholders.
Outaouais Social Rights Interdisciplinary Clinic
Outaouais Social Rights Interdisciplinary Clinic
Emmanuelle Bernheim
Founded in 2020 by a team of multidisciplinary professors from Ottawa University and Université du Québec à Montréal, the basis for the development of the Clinic stems from current research in Canada and elsewhere demonstrating an important increase in the adjudication of people living with mental health issues and in conditions of homelessness. This population must also deal with multiple legal proceedings in other legal fields such as housing, work and youth protection. In addition, research conducted through community organizations, universities as well and the public sector has shed light on the important difficulties of having the rights of individuals respected and applied in the judicial process. The Clinic will use working methods which have proven to provide practical and needs-based solutions to the issues faced by marginalized groups, including accompaniment and interdisciplinary team work.
Resources
Recent Publications
International legal approaches to neurosurgery for psychiatric disorders
Jennifer Chandler et al. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 2021. (OPEN ACCESS)
Deep brain stimulation for refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): Emerging or established therapy?
Jennifer Chandler (co-author). Molecular Psychiatry. 2020 (OPEN ACCESS)
Use of neuropsychiatric evidence as a mitigating factor in sentencing offenders with addictive behaviours
Jennifer Chandler (co-author). Neuro-interventions and the law: Regulating human mental capacity. 2020.
The role of the defense attorney in relation to biological interventions as rehabilitative strategies
Colleen Berryessa & Jennifer Chandler. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. 2020.
Legal Regulation of Psychosurgery: A Fifty-State Survey
R. Nadler & Jennifer Chandler. Journal of Legal Medicine. 2020.
Biocriminal justice: Exploring public attitudes to criminal rehabilitation using biomedical treatments
Robin Whitehead, Jennifer Chandler. Neuroethics. 2020.
A qualitative study of forensic patients' perceptions of quasi‐coercive offers of biological treatment
Natasha Knack, Jennifer Chandler, J. Paul Fedoroff. Behavioral Sciences & the Law. 2020.
Medicalized Metamorphosis: Biological Rehabilitation of Criminal Offenders
Jennifer Chandler, Jennifer Kilty & Dave Holmes. Critical Criminology. 2019.
Brain–computer interfaces and personhood: interdisciplinary deliberations on neural technology
Jennifer Chandler (co-author). Journal of Neural Engineering. 2019. (OPEN ACCESS)
Neurolaw today: A systematic review of the recent law and neuroscience literature
Jennifer Chandler (co-author). International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. 2019.
Neuroethics at 15: The current and future environment for neuroethics
Jennifer Chandler (co-author). AJOB Neuroscience. 2019. (OPEN ACCESS)
A neuroethics backbone for the evolving Canadian brain research strategy
Jennifer Chandler (co-author). Neuron. 2019. (OPEN ACCESS)
Neurolaw and neuroethics
Jennifer Chandler. Camb. Q. Health Care Ethics. 2018.
Respect for intimacy among persons whose privacy is compromised
Jennifer Chandler, Paul Fedoroff (co-authors amongst others). Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. 2018. (OPEN ACCESS)
Help, hope and hype: Ethical dimensions of neuroprosthetics
Jennifer Chandler (co-author). Science. 2017.
Workers’ Compensation for Work-Related Mental Health Problems: An Overview of Québec Law.
Katherine Lippel. Psychosocial Risks in Labour and Social Security Law: A Comparative Legal Overview. 2017.
Books/Collections
The Paraphilias: Changing Suits in the Evolution of Sexual Interest Paradigms
J. Paul Fedoroff. 2019.
Law and Mind: Mental Health Law and Policy in Canada
Jennifer Chandler, Colleen M. Flood (eds). 2016.
Recent Media
Cet étrange objet qu’est la Commission d’examen – Réplique à Patrick Lagacé
Ouellet, Guillaume et Emmanuelle Bernheim. Nov 2020.
How Should We Enforce Pandemic Rules For Those Living With Mental Illness?
Jennifer Chandler. Policy Options. June 2020.
New technologies for the brain require ethical approaches to innovation
Judy Illes, Jennifer Chandler. The Conversation. June 2019.
"We’re focusing on the most invisible of injuries": Research project targets mental health at work
w/ Ivy Lynn Bourgeault. Global News. Jan 2019.
Feeling autism neuroscience: Review of Des Fitzgerald’s Tracing Autism
Michael Orsini. Somatosphere. Feb 2018.
Event Videos
Access to Medical Assistance in Dying for Persons with Mental Illness: Perspectives from Psychiatry and Law
Mona Gupta, Jennifer Chandler, Colleen Flood. Feb 2019.
