Welcome! I’m a Professor of Law at the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics, University of Ottawa, Canada, focusing on the law, ethics and policy of advanced biomedical technologies.
Together with a multidisciplinary group of collaborators, I approach questions at the intersection of neuroscience, neurotechnology, law and ethics, as well as issues posed by organ donation, transplantation and replacement.
New Chapter - Do we need new human rights to address advancing neurotechnology?
Multiple voices have now called for new “neurorights” to protect mental privacy, integrity and liberty in an age of new technologies for neuro-intervention and collection of brain data.
Tugba Basaran Akmazoglu and I think we should first ask an earlier question. In our chapter we propose a map of the fundamental human interests at stake with neurotechnology and to evaluate whether existing legal resources are adequate to address those interests or not.
Mapping the emerging legal landscape for neuroprostheses: Human interests and legal resources
by Tugba Basaran Akmazoglu and Jennifer A Chandler
Forthcoming 2021 in the new book edited by Martín Hevía Regulating Neuroscience: Translational Legal Challenges (Elsevier).
Save the Date - June 17-18 2021 - Conference on Organ Donation Ethics, Law & Policy
The annual conference for the Centre for Health Law Policy and Ethics is on Key Controversies in Canadian Organ Donation and Transplantation.
New Paper: International Legal Approaches to Neurosurgery for Psychiatric Disorders
Chandler JA, Cabrera L, Doshi P, Fecteau S, Herrera-Ferrá K, Fins JJ, Guinjoan S, Hamani C, Hevía M, Honey M, Illes J, Kopell B, Lipsman N, Oliveira-Maya A, MacDonald P, Mayberg H, Nadler R, Nuttin B, Rangel C, Ribeiro R, Wu, H. et al. International legal approaches to neurosurgery for psychiatric disorders. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Download the paper free here.