Stefanie Carsley

Dr. Stefanie Carsley is an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, Common Law Section where she researches and teaches in the areas of family law, health law and tort law. Her research focuses on Canadian law and policy responses to assisted reproduction (surrogacy, in vitro fertilization, and sperm, egg and embryo donation). She is the principal investigator for a SSHRC-funded qualitative study entitled “Surrogacy Laws in Canada: Exploring Intended Parents’ Experiences and Perspectives” and a co-investigator for a SSHRC-funded study entitled “Surrogates’ Voices: Exploring Surrogates’ Experiences and Insights”. She has received the law faculty’s Emerging Researcher Award (2022), the Greenberg Prize for Feminist Research (2023), and the Ian Kerr Award for Excellence in Teaching (2025). She is a member of uOttawa’s Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics and uOttawa’s Public Law Centre, and is called to the Bar in Ontario.

• Stefanie Carsley, “Surrogacy Agencies in Canada: Intended Parents’ Experiences” Canadian Journal of Family Law [Forthcoming in 2025]
• Stefanie Carsley, “Reforming Quebec’s Surrogacy Laws” (2023) 53 Revue générale de droit 5.
• Stefanie Carsley, “Surrogacy in Canada: Lawyers’ Experiences and Practices” (2022) 34:1 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 41.
• Stefanie Carsley, “Regulating Reimbursements for Surrogate Mothers” (2021) 58:4 Alberta Law Review 811.
• Stefanie Carsley, “Reconceiving Quebec’s Laws on Surrogate Motherhood” (2018) 96:1 Canadian Bar Review 121.
• Stefanie Carsley, “DNA, Donor Offspring and Derivative Citizenship: Redefining Parentage under the Citizenship Act” (2016) 39:2 Dalhousie Law Journal 525.
• Stefanie Carsley, “Rethinking Canadian Legal Responses to Frozen Embryo Disputes” (2014) 29:1 Canadian Journal of Family Law 55.
• Stefanie Carsley, “Tort’s Response to Surrogate Motherhood: Providing Surrogates with a Remedy for Breached Agreements” (2013) 46:1 University of British Columbia Law Review 1.
• Stefanie Carsley, “Funding In Vitro Fertilization: Exploring the Health and Justice Implications of Quebec’s Policy” (2012) 20:3 Health Law Review 15 (peer-reviewed on request).