Biographical notes for Joan Gilmour

Born 11 November 1952

Educated University of Toronto B.A. 1975, LL.B. 1978; Stanford University J.S.M. 1988, J.S.D. 1993

Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University; Associate Director, York University Centre for Health Studies

Previous positions as Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, as Director of the School's Institute for Feminist Legal Studies, and in private practice with the law firm of Shibley, Righton & McCutcheon

Called to the Bars of Ontario 1980 and British Columbia 1989

Recipient, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Fellowship 1988-89; Laidlaw Fellowship for Advanced Studies in Law 1987-88; Law Society Prize, Law Society of Upper Canada Bar Admission Course 1980

Member, American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics, Canadian Bioethics Society

Council Member, Canadian Bar Association-Ontario 1993-95

Author, Study Paper on Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia and Foregoing Treatment (Ontario Law Reform Commission 1997), as well as several articles published in the Annals of Health Law, the Osgoode Hall Law Journal, the Canadian Journal of Law and Society and others

An important part of Professor Gilmour's research and teaching as well as her years in practice is health law. She is active in the National Network on Environments and Women's Health, one of the National Centres of Excellence in Women's Health designated by the federal government. Additionally, as Associate Director of the York University Centre for Health Studies, she is engaged in interdisciplinary work in that area as well.