Heather McLeod-Kilmurray

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


Biography

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, and previously served as a part‑time member of the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal, as a Board member of the Canadian Association of Food Law and Policy, and as a member of the Ottawa Food Policy Council.
 



 

Courses

  • Climate Change and Legal Change
  • Torts
  • Interdisciplinary Studies in Law:  Food Law

Book Chapters

  • “Food Waste” (with Prof. Carrie Bradshaw and Prof. Patricia Galvao-Ferreira), in Comparative Environmental Law Research Handbook (Edward Elgar, in progress)
  • “Civil Liability for Human Rights Violations: Human Rights and Canadian Tort Law” (focusing on corporate liability for human rights violations and environmental harms), with Prof. Penelope Simons, in ‘Civil Remedies and Human Rights in Flux: Key Legal Developments in Selected Jurisdictions” (Hart, 2021) for the Bonavero Roundtable on Civil Liability for Human Rights violations, Oxford University
  • “The Emergence of Specialist Postgraduate Coursework Programs in Environmental Law” in Teaching and Learning in Environmental Law: Pedagogy, Methodology and Best Practice (Edward Elgar, 2021) Chapter 23.
  • “Science and Advocacy” in Allan E. Ingelson, ed. Environment in the Courtroom (University of Calgary, 2019) Chapter 18, pages 230-239
  • “The Incorporation of an Environmental Ethic in the Courtroom” in Allan E. Ingelson, ed. Environment in the Courtroom (University of Calgary, 2019) Chapter 5, pages 61-71
  • “Climate Change: Human Rights and Private Remedies” (with Profs. Nathalie Chalifour and Lynda Collins) in Sébastien Jodoin, Sébastien Duyck & Alyssa Johl eds Handbook of Human Rights and Climate Governance (Routledge, 2017), ch 31

Articles

  • “Does 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)
  • “The Carrots and Sticks of Sustainable Farming in Canada” (with Prof. Nathalie Chalifour) (2015-16) 17 Vermont Journal of Environmental Law 303-344
  • “Commoditizing Animals and their Consumers: Industrial Livestock Production, Animal Welfare and Ecological Justice” 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 “Using the Law to Fight Climate, Chemical Harms”, June 26 (part of the Recalibrating Canada’s Consumer Rights Regime special feature) http://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/june-2018/using-law-fight-climate-chemical-harms/

2017    Policy Options “Canada’s Food Guide Update Needs to Address Sustainability”, with Prof. Nathalie Chalifour and PhD student Angela Lee, January 25, http://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/january-2017/canadas-food-guide-update-needs-to-address-sustainability/

Reports

  • Practicing Precaution
    Practicing Precaution and Adaptive Management Report

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