Heather McLeod-Kilmurray is a Professor and former Co-Director at the Centre for Environmental Law and Global Sustainability (CELGS). Her research deals with food law including food waste, GMOs and industrial factory farming; toxic torts; environmental justice; and the relationship between science and courts. She is co-author of The Canadian Law of Toxic Torts with Prof. Lynda Collins, and co-editor of Food Law and Policy in Canada with Profs. Nathalie Chalifour and Angela Lee. She is a member of the Environmental Protection Tribunal of Canada, a former part-time member of the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal, a Board member of the Canadian Association of Food Law and Policy, and a member of the Ottawa Food Policy Council.
Heather McLeod-Kilmurray
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Heather
McLeod-Kilmurray
Full Professor
B.A. (McGill)
LL.B. (U.W.O.)
LL.M. (Cambridge)
SJD (University of Toronto)
Room
57 Louis Pasteur St., Room FTX 346
Phone
Office: 613-562-5800 ext. 3138
Email
Biography
Courses
- Climate Change and Legal Change
- Torts
- Interdisciplinary Studies in Law: Food Law
Book Chapters
- 鈥淔ood Waste鈥 (with Prof. Carrie Bradshaw and Prof. Patricia Galvao-Ferreira), in Comparative Environmental Law Research Handbook (Edward Elgar, in progress)
- 鈥淐ivil Liability for Human Rights Violations: Human Rights and Canadian Tort Law鈥 (focusing on corporate liability for human rights violations and environmental harms), with Prof. Penelope Simons, in 鈥楥ivil Remedies and Human Rights in Flux: Key Legal Developments in Selected Jurisdictions鈥 (Hart, 2021) for the Bonavero Roundtable on Civil Liability for Human Rights violations, Oxford University
- 鈥淭he Emergence of Specialist Postgraduate Coursework Programs in Environmental Law鈥 in Teaching and Learning in Environmental Law: Pedagogy, Methodology and Best Practice (Edward Elgar, 2021) Chapter 23.
- 鈥淪cience and Advocacy鈥 in Allan E. Ingelson, ed. Environment in the Courtroom (University of Calgary, 2019) Chapter 18, pages 230-239
- 鈥淭he Incorporation of an Environmental Ethic in the Courtroom鈥 in Allan E. Ingelson, ed. Environment in the Courtroom (University of Calgary, 2019) Chapter 5, pages 61-71
- 鈥淐limate Change: Human Rights and Private Remedies鈥 (with Profs. Nathalie Chalifour and Lynda Collins) in S茅bastien Jodoin, S茅bastien Duyck & Alyssa Johl eds Handbook of Human Rights and Climate Governance (Routledge, 2017), ch 31
Articles
- 鈥淒oes the Rule of Ecological Law Demand Veganism?: Ecological Law, Interspecies Justice and the Global Food System: (2019) 43 Vermont Law Review 455-483 (29 pages)
- 鈥淭he Carrots and Sticks of Sustainable Farming in Canada鈥 (with Prof. Nathalie Chalifour) (2015-16) 17 Vermont Journal of Environmental Law 303-344
- 鈥Commoditizing Animals and their Consumers: Industrial Livestock Production, Animal Welfare and Ecological Justice鈥 in (2012) 32(1) Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, Special Issue: Selective Commoditization Pressures and the Evolution of Science, Technology and Society, Jack Manno, ed. 71-85.
Opinion Pieces
2018 Policy Options 鈥淯sing the Law to Fight Climate, Chemical Harms鈥, June 26 (part of the special feature)
2017 Policy Options 鈥淐anada鈥檚 Food Guide Update Needs to Address Sustainability鈥, with Prof. Nathalie Chalifour and PhD student Angela Lee, January 25,
Reports
- Practicing Precaution
Practicing Precaution and Adaptive Management Report