Jocelyn Downie

After law school, Downie clerked for Chief Justice Lamer at the Supreme Court of Canada, and after graduate school she was the director of Dalhousie Health Law Institute.^[3] In 2004, she published "Dying Justice: A Case for Decriminalizing Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in Canada."^[4] In her role as director, she was selected to be a Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy^[5] and sat on the Experts Committee for Human Research Participant Protection in Canada.^[6] In 2010, Downie was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.^[7]

In 2015, Downie was involved in the result of Carter v Canada. She served as a Special Advisor to the Canadian Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide and worked with the pro bono legal team in the case.^[8] In the same year, Downie became the first scholar in Nova Scotia to be named a Pierre Trudeau Trudeau Foundation Fellow.^[9] She used this fellowship to gather data regarding assisted dying in Canada.^[10] She also sat on the Provincial-Territorial Expert Advisory Group on Physician-Assisted Dying.^[11] The next year, she received the 2016 CIHR Barer-Flood Prize in Health Services and Policy Research.^[12] On July 1, 2016, Downie was appointed to University Research Professor for a five-year period.^[13]

In 2018, Downie was appointed the James S. Palmer Chair in Public Policy and Law at Schulich School of Law.^[3] She was also named a member of the Order of Canada.^[14]

• CV, via Canadian Studies, Dalhousie University