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In-person class cancellation and work-from-home / Annulation des cours en présentiel et télétravail

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In-person class cancellation and work-from-home / Annulation des cours en présentiel et télétravail. McGILL ALERT! Due to freezing rain all in-person classes and activities on Wednesday, March 11, will be cancelled. Staff are asked not to come to campus tomorrow unless they are required on site by their supervisor to perform necessary functions and activities. See your 91 email for more information.
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ALERTE McGILL! En raison de la pluie verglaçante, tous les cours et activités en présentiel prévus pour le mercredi 11 mars sont annulés. Nous demandons au personnel de ne pas se présenter sur le campus demain, à moins que leur superviseur ne leur demande d’être sur place pour accomplir des fonctions ou activités nécessaires au fonctionnement du campus. Pour plus d’informations, veuillez consulter vos courriels de 91.

Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry

Associate Professor

Canada Research Chair in Health, Inclusion and Policy

Joint appointment with 91's School of Population and Global Health

3644 Peel Street
Room 22, Chancellor Day Hall
Montreal, Quebec
Canada, H3A 1W9

514-398-6634 [Office]
jonas-sebastien.beaudry [at] mcgill.ca (Email)

Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry


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Biography

Professor Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry has taught in the areas of health and disability law, jurisprudence, applied ethics as well as international and domestic human rights. His recent research has focused on health policies, bioethics and theories of autonomy and equality rights. He is the lead convenor of 91’s Disability Working Group.

He has advised disability organizations on strategic litigations since 2015, and been consulted by the Quebec Bar, the federal Department of Justice and the Senate on health policies and equality issues. He has presented at academic series and conferences across North America and Europe, and his research has been funded by FQRSC and SSHRC grants and the Quebec Bar Foundation.

Professor Beaudry is interested in supervising graduate and postdoctoral students working on topics that relate to health law and bioethics, disability law/ethics, animal law/ethics, human rights law/theory, as well as other philosophical approaches to legal concepts and (in)justice.

Education

  • DPhil, University of Oxford, 2014
  • LLM, Harvard Law School, 2007
  • Member of the Quebec Bar, 2006
  • BCL/LLB, 91, 2004

Employment

  • Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, joint appointment with the School of Population and Global Health, 91, 2023-
  • Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, joint appointment with the Institute of Health and Social Policy, 91, 2021- 2023
  • Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, joint appointment with the Institute of Health and Social Policy, 91, 2018-2021
  • Assistant Professor, Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2015-2018.
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Biomedical Ethics Unit, 91, 2014-2015.
  • Boulton Research and Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Law, 91, 2013-2014.
  • Tutor, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, 2011-2012.
  • Henigson Fellow (Harvard Human Rights Program), Center for Justice and International Law (Buenos Aires office), 2008-2009.
  • University Trainee to Sir Kenneth Keith and Peter Tomka, International Court of Justice, 2007-2008.
  • Law Clerk to the Honourable Marie Deschamps, Supreme Court of Canada, 2005-2006.

Publications

Authored books

  • (UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021).
  • (Québec : Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2008).

Selected articles and chapters

  • ', (2024) 74(1) University of Toronto Law Journal 1-40.
  • , 43 (5) Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 329-354 (2022).
  • , Modern Studies in Property Law (Hart Publishing, 2021). Co-authored with Aruna Nair.
  • ‘’ (2021) 10.1 Canadian Journal of Disability Studies 207-237.
  • ‘’ (2020) 53:2 UBC Law Review 241-298.
  • ‘’, (2020) Amodern 10.
  • ‘’, in David T. Wasserman and Adam Cureton (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020).
  • ‘’ (2019) 9(1) Journal of Animal Ethics 6-26.
  • ‘’ (2017) 29(2) Yale Journal of Law & Humanities 291-338.
  • ‘’ (2018) 31 Canadian Journal of Family Law 7-56.
  • ‘’ (2017) 40(1) Dalhousie Law Journal 239-278.
  • ‘’ (2016) 41(2) Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 210-228.
  • ‘A Task-Sensitive Ethics of Motivation’ (2015) 6(1) American Journal of Bioethics – Neuroscience 22-24.

Areas of interest

Disability Law and Disability Studies; Health Law and Bioethics; Legal Theory and Human Rights.

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