Research LLM Fellowships at Center for Health Law, Policy, and Ethics

Here some funded LLM Positions in Health Law, Ethics and Policy starting September 2020 or January 2021. Professors Jennifer Chandler, Vanessa Gruben, Colleen Flood, and Marie-Eve Sylvestre are recruiting Centre Fellows who would like to complete their LLM with the Centre on topics associated with the Centre’s funded research programs. Legal Definition of Death in an Age of Techno-Scientific Change – As we learn more about the physiology of the dying process (cessation of circulatory and brain function), and as resuscitation and life-sustaining technologies change, do legal definitions of death need to change? The successful LLM candidate will work on a Canadian funded project examining the pattern of brain activity at the time of withdrawal of ventilation and cessation of cardiocirculatory activity, and consider its legal significance. Supervisor: Professor Jennifer Chandler. Presumed Consent (Opt-Out) Systems for Organ Donation – Nova Scotia recently amended its law on organ donation to adopt a presumed consent system. Other provinces have discussed the possibility. The successful LLM candidate will work within a large multi-disciplinary group of social scientists, lawyers, doctors, and health policy specialists that is comprehensively studying the impact of the Nova Scotia changes, and will specifically work on legal questions related to presumed consent for organ donation. Supervisor: Professor Jennifer Chandler Harm Reduction – The harm ...
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