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Hiring Unit: Faculty of Law

Course Number: LAWG 551

Course Title: Mental Health & Human Rights

Course Credits: 1

Term: Focus Week Winter 2025

Course Schedule: Mon/Tues/Wed/Thurs 1435-1725 (Student Affairs Office will contact you if there is a change to the date/time)

Location: Chancellor Day Hall

Course Description: For centuries, mental health conditions have bedevilled law and society. From the lunacy statutes of the 19th century, to the asylum laws and de-institutionalization rulings of the 20th century, to the therapeutic justice-inspired and human rights laws of the 21st century, Canadian law has played a diversity of roles in responding to mental health conditions. This mini-seminar explores the transformative impact, limits and promise of human rights on the societal evolution of mental health.

We begin with a brief retrospective on legal (mis)treatment of those with "mental health" conditions before the modern human rights revolution: institutionalization, segregation, sterilization, and medical experimentation. The saga of Quebec's Duplessis orphans provides a salient example. If such deeds stand as historic wrongs, what legal+ remedies help repair the past?

Building on such historic chapters, we turn to the conception, purpose, legal sources, and standards of modern human rights: e.g., dignitary norms that protect and promote liberty and informed health decisions, bodily/mental integrity and security of the person, equality/non-discrimination, right to treatment, and arguably an emerging right to (mental) health.

We conclude by applying human rights law to a sampling of pressing mental health crises: (i) mental health and human rights in the workplace; (ii) societal public safety and policing; (iii) the opioid epidemic that continues to kill, and to ravage public health.

The principles, contexts and cases help identify the elements and challenges of an emerging right to mental health.

The University may, at its discretion, assign the person of choice to give this Course/Teaching.

Please note that this course will be allocated to a member using an exemption as per article 15.03.03 of the MCLIU collective agreement.

This posting will be taken down at 12:00 a.m. on the day indicated below as the deadline to apply. You have until 11:59 p.m. the day before the indicated deadline date to submit your application

Hiring Unit:

Faculty of Law

Course Title:

Mental Health & Human Rights

Subject Code:

LAWG 551 001

Location:

Chancellor Day Hall, room TBD

Schedule:

Mon/Tues/Wed/Thurs 1435-1725

Deadline to Apply:

2025-01-29

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