Trudo Lemmens

Trudo Lemmens (LicJur KULeuven; LLM Bioethics & DCL McGill) is Professor and Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, with cross-appointment to the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. He primarily conducts research on legal, ethical, and policy issues related to health care, biomedical research, health product development, and knowledge production. More recent work focuses on human rights and disability rights in relation to health. He has been teaching various health law and bioethics courses since 1997. Professor Lemmens has been a visiting scholar and fellow at leading academic institutions in Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He is a fellow of the Hastings Center.

His publications include the co-authored book Medical Law in Canada, the co-edited volumes Unravelling MAiD in Canada: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide as Medical Care (2025); Law and Ethics of Biomedical Research: Regulation, Conflict of Interest, and Liability; and Regulating Creation: Law, Ethics and Policy of Assisted Human Reproduction, and more than 150 chapters and articles in national and international law, policy, science, medicine, and bioethics journals.

Professor Lemmens has testified before national and international parliamentary committees and courts. He has further chaired and been a member of various advisory, ethics, and governance committees, including for Health Canada, the World Health Organization, and the Pan American Health Organization. In the last decade, he was a member of two Council of Canadian Academies’ expert panels, on medical assistance in dying and on governance of health data. He currently is a member of the Ontario Chief Coroner’s Office MAiD Death Review Committee.