Mar 29, 2024  
2023-2024 Undergraduate Calendar 
    
2023-2024 Undergraduate Calendar
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LGLS 4030U – Law and the Body


The course will consider a range of legal regimes that aim to protect, control, define or displace the human body, and the legal and ethical debates these regimes inspire or reflect. The theoretical underpinning of the course may include concepts of the ‘person’ in law, human dignity, theories of racialized and sexualized bodies, and disembodied notions of human subjectivity. Topics may include health law (legal and ethical issues in health care regulation, informed consent and right to access medical care; regulation of human reproduction and end of life care and decision-making); bioethics (ethics and governance in medical research on human subjects); legal regimes governing dead bodies and body parts (such as organ donation); the role of concepts of human development and abilities in the law (such as age of consent, mental disabilities); debates about physical punishments (the death penalty, imprisonment, chemical castration and their history); personal injury law (such as compensation for pain and suffering, mental distress, as well as quantifying physical injuries), and debates about non-corporeality of rights and harms (such as autonomy rights, personality rights, and the privacy rights of data subjects).
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): LGLS 2200U  and one of: CRMN 2831U  or CRMN 2840U  or COMM 3720U  or LGLS 3300U  or LGLS 3310U  or LGLS 3320U  or LGLS 3330U  



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