Associate Professor
Canada Research Chair in Health, Inclusion and Policy
Joint appointment with McGill's School of Population and Global Health
3690 Peel Street
Room 22, Chancellor Day Hall
Montreal, Quebec
Canada, H3A 1W9
514-398-6634 [Office]
jonas-sebastien.beaudry [at] mcgill.ca (Email)
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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 McGill’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, McGill University, 2004
Employment
- Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, joint appointment with the School of Population and Global Health, McGill University, 2023-
- Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, joint appointment with the Institute of Health and Social Policy, McGill University, 2021- 2023
- Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, joint appointment with the Institute of Health and Social Policy, McGill University, 2018-2021
- Assistant Professor, Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2015-2018.
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University, 2014-2015.
- Boulton Research and Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Law, McGill University, 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.
