From regulating informed consent and medical malpractice, to reproductive technologies and medically assisted dying, to vaccination policies and mental illness, law impacts some of the most pressing questions facing healthcare today.
Health law also cuts across a broad range of legal fields, from intellectual property to constitutional law, innovation to administrative law.
Our scholarship has been at the forefront of shaping Canadian health law and policy. Through workshops, programs and courses, U of T Law of research and teaching in this area.
Courses
As a student here, you’ll have many opportunities to study health law, in courses on health law and bioethics, public health, mental health, and sexual and reproductive health.
Beyond the classroom
Externships allow students to develop practical experience in health law, including overlap with the health and justice needs of low-income communities.
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Faculty
Role: Professor Emerita, Co-Director, International Reproductive and Sexual Health Law Program
Role: Professor Emeritus
Role: Professor