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Schulich School of Law

Jocelyn Downie

Professor Emeritus Faculties of Law and Medicine; Adjunct Professor, Australian Centre for Health Law Research - QUT

law_faculty_Jocelyn Downie March 2017

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Schulich School of Law , 新加坡六合彩开奖直播 Health Justice Institute

Email: jocelyn.downie@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-6883
Mailing Address: 
Room 319, Weldon Law Building, 6061 University Avenue
PO Box 15000 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Public policy and law
  • Health law
  • Health care ethics
  • Health policy
  • Legal ethics
  • End-of-life law

Education

  • BA Philosophy (Queen's University)
  • MA聽Philosophy (Queen's University)
  • MLitt Philosophy (The University of Cambridge)
  • LLB (The University of Toronto)
  • LLM (The University of Michigan)
  • SJD (The University of Michigan)

Bar admission

Nova Scotia, 2000

Teaching

Jocelyn Downie teaches health care ethics and law聽as well as law and public policy in the law school.

  • LAWS 2115: Health Care Ethics and the Law聽
  • LAWS 2278 Law and Public Policy in Practice
  • LAWS 2302 Case Studies in Public Policy and Law
  • LAWS 2304 From Legal Research to Public Policy Impact

Areas of supervision: Health care law, policy, and ethics

Research interests

Jocelyn Downie works at the intersection of health care ethics, law, and policy. She has a particular interest in end-of-life law care.

Selected awards & honours

  • Order of Canada (2018)
  • President's Research Excellence Award - Research Impact (2018)
  • The Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Scientific Lecture Award (2016)
  • Trudeau Fellow (2015)
  • 新加坡六合彩开奖直播 Research Professor
  • CIHR Barer-Flood Prize for Health Services and Policy Research
  • Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
  • Fellow, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
  • Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy (2003鈥�13)

Recent publications

  • Jocelyn Downie, 鈥淭he Value of a Feminist Approach in the Ethics of End of Life Care鈥� in Vikki Entwistle and Wendy Rogers , eds., Routledge Handbook of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (Abingdon: Routledge, forthcoming 2022). 
  • Ben White, Lindy Willmott, Katrine Del Villar, Jayne Hewitt, Eliana Close, Laura Ley Greaves, James Cameron, Rebecca Meehan, Jocelyn Downie, 鈥淲ho is Eligible for Voluntary Assisted Dying鈥� Nine Medical Conditions Assessed Against Five Legal Frameworks鈥� (2022) 45:1 UNSW Law Journal 401-444.
  • 鈥淔rom Rodriguez to Carter to Bill C-14: Lessons learned from Canada鈥檚 journey to legal medical assistance in dying鈥� Jocelyn Downie and Kate Scallion, Ben While and Lindy Willmott, eds., International Perspectives on End-of-Life Reform: Politics, Persuasion and Persistence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021). 
  • Gina Bravo, Lieve Van den Block, Jocelyn Downie, Marcel Arcand, and Lise Trottier, 鈥淎ttitudes toward withholding antibiotics from people with dementia lacking decisional capacity: findings from a survey of Canadian stakeholders鈥� (2021) 22:119 BMC Med Ethics. 
  • Udo Schuklenk and Jocelyn Downie, 鈥淪ocial determinants of health and slippery slopes in assisted dying debates: Lessons from Canada鈥� (2021) Journal of Medical Ethics.
  • Mona Gupta, Jocelyn Downie, Samuel Blouin, and Stefano Cavalli, 鈥淎ssistance in Dying: A Comparative Look at Legal Definitions鈥� (2021) Death Studies. 
  • Ben White, Lindy Willmott, Eliana Close, and Jocelyn Downie, 鈥淟egislative Options to Address Institutional Objections to Voluntary Assisted Dying in Australia鈥� (2021) 3 UNSW Law Journal Forum 1-19. 
  • Ben White, Lindy Willmott, Jocelyn Downie, Andrew Geddis, and Colin Gavaghan, 鈥淎ssisted dying and evidence-based law-making: a critical analysis of an article鈥檚 role in New Zealand鈥檚 referendum鈥� (2020) 133:1520 New Zealand Medical Journal 83-90. 
  • Adeline Iftene and Jocelyn Downie, 鈥淓nd-of-Life Care for Federally Incarcerated Individuals in Canada鈥� (2020) 14:1 McGill Journal of Law and Health 1-50. 

Current service & activity

  • Member, Board of Directors, Canadian Centre for Legal Innovation in Sexual Assault Response 
  • Member, Board of Directors, Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport
  • Member, Board of Directors, Andrus on Hudson, New York
  • Member, Board of Directors, Helen Andrus Benedict Foundation