Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
BA (Queen’s), MA (Queen’s), MLitt (Cambridge), LLB (Toronto), LLM (Michigan), SJD (Michigan)
Telephone: (902) 494-6883
Fax (902) 494-1316
E-mail: jocelyn.downie@dal.ca
Biography:
Professor Downie works at the intersection of law, ethics and health care. Her research interests include women's health, assisted death, research involving humans, and organ transplantation. Her work is interdisciplinary, collaborative, and geared both to contributing to the academic literature and to affecting change in health law and policy at federal and provincial levels.
Courses
Publications (past five years)
Jocelyn Downie & Jennifer Llewellyn, eds., Being Relational: Reflections on Relational Theory and Health Law [forthcoming UBC Press, 2011].
Jocelyn Downie, Timothy Caulfield, & Colleen Flood, eds., Canadian Health Law and Policy, 4th ed. (Toronto: Butterworths, 2011) 650 pgs.
Jocelyn Downie, “Resistance is Essential: Relational Reponses to Recent Law and Policy Initiatives Involving Reproduction” in Jocelyn Downie & Jennifer Llewellyn, eds., Being Relational: Reflections on Relational Theory and Health Law and Policy [UBC Press, forthcoming 2011].
Jocelyn Downie & Richard Devlin, “The Great Canadian Lawyer: A Manifesto, Eh!” in D. Blaikie, T.A. Cromwell, & D. Pink, eds., On Being a Lawyer [Toronto: Irwin Law, forthcoming 2011].
Jennifer Llewellyn & Jocelyn Downie, “Restorative Justice, Euthanasia, and Assisted Suicide: A New Arena for Restorative Justice and A New Path for End of Life Law and Policy in Canada” Alberta Law Review [forthcoming 2011].
Jocelyn Downie, Simon Outram & Fiona Campbell, “Caveat Emptor, Venditor, et Praescribor: Legal Liability Associated with Methylphenidate Hydrochloride (MPH) Use by Postsecondary Students” Health Law Journal [forthcoming 2011].
Audrey Steebeek, Noni MacDonald, Francoise Baylis, Jocelyn Downie, & Mary Appleton, “Ill-informed Consent? A Content Analysis of Physical Risk Disclosure in Canadian School-Based HPV Vaccine Programs” Public Health Nursing [forthcoming 2011].
Matthias H. Schmidt, Jennifer Marshall, Jocelyn Downie, & Michael R. Hadskis, “Pediatric Magnetic Resonance Research and the Minimal-Risk Standard” IRB: Ethics and Human Research [forthcoming 2011].
Francoise Baylis & Jocelyn Downie, “Confusion Worse Confounded” British Medical Journal (2011).
Richard Devlin & Jocelyn Downie, “…and the learners shall inherit the earth: Continuing Professional Development, Lifelong Learning, and Legal Ethics Education” Canadian Legal Education Annual Review (2011): 9-26.
Cheluchi Onyemelukwe & Jocelyn Downie, “The Tunnel at the End of the Light? A Critical Analysis of the Development of the Tri-Council Policy Statement” Canadian Journal of Law and Society (2011): 159-176.
Jocelyn Downie & Victoria Apold, “Bad News about Bad News: The Disclosure of Risks in Insurability in Research Consent Processes” (2011) 18:1 Accountability in Research 31-44.
Jocelyn Downie, Michael Hadskis, Karen McEwen, & William MacInnis, eds., Dental Law in Canada, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Lexis-Nexis, 2010) 340 pgs.
Jocelyn Downie & Kate Dewhirst, “Women’s Health Law and Policy” in Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, ed., Canadian Health Law Practice Manual (Toronto: Lexis Nexis, 2010) 9.1-9.28.
Jocelyn Downie, “Palliative Care in the ICU through a Legal Lens” in Graeme Rocker et al., eds., The ICU: From Advancing Disease to Bereavement, Oxford Specialist Handbooks End of Life Care (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010) 190-195.
Jocelyn Downie, “The Ends of Life and Death: Public Policy, Spirituality, and the Law” in The Issues of the Ends of Life: The Segelberg Lectures Trafford Publishing, December 2009 eBook release May 2010.
Michelle Black & Jocelyn Downie, “Watch Your Language: A Review of the Use of Stigmatizing Language by Canadian Judges” (2010) 5:1 Journal of Ethics in Mental Health 1-8.
Robyn Bluhm, Jocelyn Downie, & Jeff Nisker, “Dr. Cézanne and the Art of Re(peat)search: Competing Interests and Obligations in Clinical Research” (2010) 17:2 Accountability in Research 85-95.
Matthew Kutcher, Victoria Apold & Jocelyn Downie, “Will the Brain Ever Take the Stand? Canadian Law and the Admissibility of Neurotechnology Lie Detection Evidence” (2010) 56:1 Criminal Law Quarterly 135-163.
Jocelyn Downie, “Canadian Parliament must Act on Assisted Human Reproduction” (June 7, 2010) 561 BioNews (www.BioNews.org.uk).
Jocelyn Downie, “A Conflict by Any Other Name would Smell as Foul: A Comment on the Appointment of a Vice-president of Pfizer to the CIHR Governing Council” (September, 27, 2010) Ottawa Life.
Jocelyn Downie & Karen McEwen, “The Manitoba College of Physicians and Surgeons Position Statement on Withholding and Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment (2008): Three Problems and a Solution” (2009) 17 Health Law Journal 115-138.
Jocelyn Downie, “On Being a Legal Academic in a Politically Charged Context” in Of What Difference? Reflections on the Judgment and Abortion in Canada Today (National Abortion Federation, 2009) 63-66.
Chris Kaposy & Jocelyn Downie, “Reproductive Choice in Canadian Courts: An Evidence-Based Call for a Move to Relational Autonomy” (2009) 36 Advocates’ Quarterly 86-104.
Jocelyn Downie, “Glass Houses: The Power of Money in Bioethics Research” (2009) 2:2 International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 97-115.
Jocelyn Downie, Matthew Kutcher, Chantelle Rajotte, & Alison Shea, “Eligibility for Organ Donation: A Medico-Legal Perspective on Defining and Determining Death” (2009) 56 Canadian Journal of Anesthesia 851-863.
Matthias Schmidt & Jocelyn Downie, “Safety First: Recognizing the Managing of Risks to Child Participants in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research” (2009) 16:3 Accountability in Research 153-173.
Jocelyn Downie & Richard Devlin, “Fitness for Purpose: Mandatory Continuing Legal Ethics Education for Lawyers” (2009) 87:3 Canadian Bar Review 773-804.
Nuala Kenny, Jocelyn Downie, & Christine Harrison, “Respectful Involvement of Children in Medical Decision-Making” in Peter Singer ed., The Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008) 121-126.
Jocelyn Downie & Simone Bern, “Rodriguez Redux” (2008) 16 Health Law Journal 27-54.
Chris Kaposy & Jocelyn Downie, “Judicial Reasoning about Pregnancy and Choice” (2008) 16 Health Law Journal 281-304.
Jocelyn Downie & Jennifer Llewellyn, “Relational Theory and Health Law and Policy” (2008) Health Law Journal Special Edition 193-210.
Jocelyn Downie, Chantelle Rajotte, & Alison Shea, “Pre-Mortem Transplantation Optimizing Interventions: The Legal Status of Consent” (2008) 55:7 Canadian Journal of Anesthesia 458-469.
Michael Hadskis, Nuala Kenny, Jocelyn Downie, Matthias Schmidt, Ryan D’Arcy, “The Therapeutic Misconception: A Threat to Valid Parental Consent for Paediatric Neuroimaging Research” (2008) 15:3 Accountability in Research 133-151.
Jocelyn Downie, Alison Shea, & Chantelle Rajotte, “Family Override of Valid Donor Consent to Post-Mortem Donation: Issues in Law and Practice” (2008) 40 Transplantation Proceedings 1255-1263.
Jocelyn Downie & Carla Nassar, “Barriers to Access to Abortion Through a Legal Lens” (2008) 15 Health Law Journal 143-173.
Richard Devlin and Jocelyn Downie, “Mandatory Legal Education is a Step in the Right Direction” (2008) Lawyers Weekly 3.
Jocelyn Downie and Richard Devlin, “Are Law Schools Amoral Boot Camps?” book review of Lawyers Gone Bad: Money, Sex and Madness in Canada’s Legal Profession by Philip Slayton (2008) 16:1 Literary Review of Canada 6-7.
Jocelyn Downie and Elaine Gibson, eds., Health Law at the Supreme Court of Canada (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2007) 423 pgs.
Jocelyn Downie, “Assisted Death at the Supreme Court of Canada” in Jocelyn Downie and Elaine Gibson, eds., Health Law at the Supreme Court of Canada (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2007) 219-240.
Erik Viirre, Françoise Baylis, & Jocelyn Downie, “Promises and Perils of Cognitive Performance Tools: A Dialogue” (2007) Vol. 11 Technology 9-25.
Jocelyn Downie, Beth Halperin, Noni MacDonald, & Ryan Melnychuk, “When is it Permissible to Dismiss a Family Who Refuses Vaccines? Legal, Ethical and Public Health Perspectives” (2007) 12:10 Paediatrics and Child Health 843-845.
Jocelyn Downie & Ronalda Murphy, “Inadmissible, Eh?” (2007) 7:9 The American Journal of Bioethics 67-69.
Jennifer Marshall, Toby Martin, Jocelyn Downie, & Krisztina Malisza, “A Comprehensive Analysis of MRI Research Risks: In Support of Full Disclosure” (2007) 34:1 The Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences 11-17.
Jocelyn Downie and Matthew Herder, “Reflections on the Commercialization of Research
Conducted in Public Institutions in Canada” (2007) 1:1 The McGill Health Law Publication 23-44.
Jocelyn Downie, Matthias Schmidt, Nuala Kenny, Ryan D’Arcy, Michael Hadskis, & Jennifer Marshall, “Paediatric MRI Research Ethics: The Priority Issues” (2007) 4:2 Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 85-91.
Jocelyn Downie & Jennifer Marshall, “Paediatric Neuroimaging Ethics” (2007) 16:2 Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 147-160.
Jocelyn Downie in William A. Darity, Editor-in-Chief, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Ed. (MacMillan Reference USA: Thomson Gale, 2007) s.v. “assisted death”.
Richard Devlin, Jocelyn Downie, and Stephanie Lane, “Taking Responsibility: Mandatory Legal Ethics in Canadian Law Schools” (2007) 65:6 The Advocate 761-778.
Jocelyn Downie, Nuala Kenny, & Chantelle Rajotte, “Problematic Principles: The CMA on Public/Private Health Care” (January 2007) 15:2 Health Law Review 15-16.
Jocelyn Downie, “Grasping the Nettle: Confronting the Issue of Competing Interests and Obligations in Health Research Policy” in Colleen Flood, ed., Just Medicare: What’s In, What’s Out, How We Decide (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006) 427-448
Noni MacDonald & Jocelyn Downie, “Editorial Policy: Industry Funding and Editorial Independence” (editorial) (June 2006) 174:13 Canadian Medical Association Journal 1817.
Jocelyn Downie, “Patient Safety Law: From Silos to Systems” Canadian Patient Safety Institute
(October 2006) 3.
Jocelyn Downie, “The Canadian Agency for the Oversight of Research Involving Humans: A Reform Proposal” (2006) 13 Accountability in Research 75-100.
Jocelyn Downie, “The Power of Money: Commercialisation of Research Conducted in Public Institutions” (2006) 11:2 University of Otago Law Review 305-325.
ACTIVE RESEARCH GRANTS
Health Law, Ethics, and Policy Training Program, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Let Conscience be their Guide? Conscientious Refusals in Reproductive Health Care, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Relational Theory & Health Law and Policy, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Neuroimaging Ethics: From Theory to Practice, Canadian Institutes of Health Research