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About

Jocelyn Downie

Jocelyn Downie holds a Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy. She is a professor in the Faculties of Law and Medicine and a faculty associate of the Health Law Institute at Dalhousie University. She has an honours B.A. and an M.A. from Queen's University, an M. Litt from the University of Cambridge, and LL.B. from the University of Toronto, and an LL.M. and S.J.D. from the University of Michigan. Prior to her graduate work in law, she clerked for Chief Justice Lamer at the Supreme Court of Canada.

Professor Downie's research interests include assisted death, the governance of research involving humans, and women's health law and policy. Her current work is geared to contributing to the academic literature and affecting change in health law, policy, and practice.

Books by Jocelyn Downie

Being Relational

Reflections on Relational Theory and Health Law

edited by Jocelyn Downie & Jennifer J. Llewellyn

Health Law at the Supreme Court of Canada

edited by Jocelyn Downie & Elaine Gibson

Dying Justice

A Case for Decriminalizing Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in Canada

by (author) Jocelyn Downie

The Olivieri Report

The Complete Text of the Report of the Independent Inquiry Commissioned by the Canadian Association of University Teachers

by (author) Jon Thompson, Patricia Baird & Jocelyn Downie