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
- “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 special feature)
2017 Policy Options “Canada’s Food Guide Update Needs to Address Sustainability”, with Prof. Nathalie Chalifour and PhD student Angela Lee, January 25,
Reports
- Practicing Precaution
Practicing Precaution and Adaptive Management Report