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Biography

Professor Khoury, Ad. E., is a Full Professor at the Faculty of law, 91社区鈥檚 Associate Vice-President (Research), and an associate member of the听Department of听Equity, Ethics and Policy听of 91社区鈥檚听School of Population and Global Health. She holds since 2024 a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Liability, Health Governance, and Social Change.鈥�

She was the Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Law from 2015 to 2017. She convenes, with Professor Alana Klein, the鈥�91社区 Research Group on Health and Law. She is also a member of 91社区鈥檚鈥�Institute of Comparative Law鈥痑nd a Full Member of the鈥�Paul-Andr茅 Cr茅peau Centre for Private and Comparative Law. She teaches and conducts research in the fields of comparative Medical, Public Health and Environmental Law, with a particular focus on liability issues.听

She is the author of "Uncertain Causation in Medical Liability" (Hart Publishing, Oxford and Yvon Blais, Cowansville) which received the 2008 Quebec Bar Foundation Prize. This monograph deals with the impact of scientific uncertainties on the proof of causation in medical liability in English and Canadian common law, as well as in French and Qu茅bec civil law. Lara Khoury has completed a doctoral (DPhil) degree at the University of Oxford, from where she also holds a master鈥檚 degree (BCL).听

Professor Khoury was elected a titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law in July 2019. She received the Barreau du Qu茅bec's鈥�Advocatus Emeritus鈥�(Ad. E.) designation in 2019 and the John-Ramon-Hnatyshyn Prize of the Canadian Bar Association in 2023.听

Employment

• Full Professor, Faculty of Law, 91社区, 2023-present听
• Associate Vice-President (Research), 2024-present
• Associate Dean of Research, Faculty of Law, 91社区, 2015-2017
• Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, 91社区, 2009 - 2023
• Assistant professor, Faculty of Law, 91社区, 2002-2009
• Boulton Junior Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, 91社区, 2000-2001
• Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Sherbrooke, 1995-2001
• Tort Tutor, Balliol College, University of Oxford, 1998
• Invited Research Fellow, Max-Planck-Institut f眉r ausl盲ndisches und internationales Privatrecht (Hamburg, Germany), 1999 & 2001
• Member of the Quebec Bar, 1995-
• Lawyer, Commercial and civil litigation, Heenan Blaikie, Montreal, 1995-1996

Education

• D.Phil.(Law), Oxford University, 2003
• B.C.L., Oxford University, 1998
• LL.B., Sherbrooke University, 1994 [winner of the Albert-Leblanc Medal]
• Certificate in Communications Studies, UQ脌M, 1991

Areas of Interest

Science and Law; Medical Liability; Environmental Liability; Biotechnologies and Law; Extra-contractual obligations / Tort Law; Comparative and Transsystemic approaches to private law; Civil law obligations.

Science and Law 鈥� I am interested in the interactions between science and law, with a particular focus on the impact that scientific uncertainties have on the judicial decision-making process, especially in medical and environmental liability. I am also working on the broader question of the adaptability of the law of torts and civil responsibility in response to new types of injuries caused by modern (bio)technological and scientific developments.

Medical Liability 鈥� My main area of research and teaching is in the field of medical liability. Current and past interests include the examination of questions related to problems of evidence of fault and causation; juridical responses to problems provoked by advances in modern medicine, including injuries caused by nosocomial infections, contaminated blood, or pharmaceutical products; injury caused by developments in genetic testing and technology; and potential legislative and judicial responses to the proliferation of 鈥榤edical accidents鈥�.

Environmental Liability 鈥� My work in this area has centered mainly on liability issues flowing from potential economic, health and environmental impacts of the introduction in the environment of genetically modified organisms. Other interests include the development and recognition of the notion of 鈥榚nvironmental injury鈥�; the use of the precautionary principle in private law judicial decision-making; and the impact of causal uncertainty about effects of environmental pollution on human health and ecosystems on the development of liability rules.

Current External听Grants

Member of the team of researchers who obtained a Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF)/Fonds d鈥檈xcellence en recherche Apog茅e Canada (fonds Apog茅e), DNA to RNA (D2R),鈥�2023-2030听

FRQSC 鈥� Soutien aux 茅quipes de recherche, Le droit comme partenaire dans la protection de la sant茅 脿 l鈥櫭╮e des innovations technologiques, politiques et juridiques (Alana Klein, P.I.), 2020鈥�2024听听

CRSH (Insight),鈥疭tructuring Product Safety and Liability: Normative Spirals through Integrated Markets, Science and law鈥�(M-E. Arbour, P.I. & L. Khoury, co-applicant) (2016-2024).听

Publications (last decade)

Articles in refereed journals

• M. Bourassa-Forcier, Lara Khoury and N. V茅zina, (2022) Canadian Health Policy J.听
• L. Khoury, A. Klein, M.-E. Couture-M茅nard and K. Hammond, 芦鈥�鈥� (2022) Journal of Public Health Policy听
• M.-E. Couture-M茅nard, K. Hammond, L. Khoury et A. Klein, 芦鈥�鈥�禄 (2021) 72: 1 UNBLJ 1听听
• M. Bourassa-Forcier, L. Khoury et N. V茅zina, 芦鈥�禄 (2020) 46(2) Dalhousie Medical J 7鈥�11.听听
• Etienne Verg猫s & Lara Khoury, 鈥溾�� (2017) 58鈥�:3鈥疌ahiers de droit鈥�517-48.听
• 鈥淐rises sanitaires et responsabilit茅 茅tatique envers la collectivit茅鈥� (2016) 46鈥�:2鈥疪.D.U.S.鈥�261-89.听鈥痆.辫诲蹿闭听
• 鈥淟e futur des actions collectives comme outils de r茅duction des risques pos茅s 脿 la sant茅 publique : Le莽ons qu茅b茅coises en mati猫re de tabagisme鈥�, (2016) 47鈥�:2鈥疧ttawa L.J.鈥�391-414.听听
• M.-P. Gagnon, J. Payne-Gagnon, E. Breton, J.-P. Fortin, L. Khoury, L. Dolovich, D. Price, D. Wiljer, G. Bartlett, N. Archer, "鈥�, (2016) 5鈥疘nt'l Journal of Health Policy and Management1-9.听
• 芦鈥疌ommentaire d鈥檃rr锚t. St-Germain c. Benhaim 鈥� Un jugement audacieux et habile鈥�禄 (2015) 8鈥�:1鈥疪.D. & sant茅 91社区鈥�111-137.听Read the article鈥痆.pdf]鈥�听
• 芦 Le juge canadien, anglais et australien devant l鈥檌ncertitude causale en mati猫re de responsabilit茅 m茅dicale 禄 (2014) 59: 4鈥疪.D. 91社区鈥�989.听鈥痆.辫诲蹿闭听
• 芦 Compromis et transpositions libres dans les l茅gislations permettant le recouvrement du co没t des soins de sant茅 aupr猫s de l'industrie du tabac 禄 (2013) 43鈥疪.D.U.S.鈥�611-43.听
• L. Khoury, M.-E. Couture-M茅nard & O. Redko, "The Role of Private Law in the Control of Risks Associated with Tobacco Smoking: The Canadian Experience" (2013) 39:2鈥疉merican Journal of Law & Medicine鈥�442-470.听听

Books and monographs

• L. Khoury, A. Blackett and L. Vanhonnaeker (eds), Genetic Testing and the Governance of Risk in the Contemporary Economy, Ius Comparatum 鈥� Global Studies in Comparative Law 34 (Springer, 2020), 354 pp.听听
• M.-E. Arbour, L. Khoury (eds),鈥�, Montreal, Yvon Blais, 2019.听
• C. R茅gis, L. Khoury & R.P. Kouri (eds),鈥�, Montreal, Yvon Blais, 2018, 442 pp.听
• C. R茅gis, L. Khoury & R.P. Kouri (eds),鈥疢ontreal, Yvon Blais, 2016, 353 pp.听
• M. Hautereau-Boutonnet, L. Khoury,鈥痚t J.-C. Saint-Pau (eds),鈥�鈥痆.pdf]鈥�(Sherbrooke, 脡ditions RDUS, 2015)听
• L. Khoury,鈥�鈥�(Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2006 and Cowansville, Yvon Blais, 2006)鈥�听

Articles/chapters in books and monographs

• L. Khoury and K. Hammond, 鈥淟a faute en temps de crise sanitaire鈥�禄 in Barreau du Qu茅bec, Service de la qualit茅 de la profession, D茅veloppements r茅cents en droit de la sant茅, Vol. 524 (Montr茅al鈥�: 脡d. Yvon Blais, 2022), pp. 65-94听
• L. Khoury and K. Spillane, 鈥淟a faute de 鈥渟yst猫me鈥� en responsabilit茅 m茅dicale au Qu茅bec鈥� in E. Clerc et al. (eds), Alea jacta est: Sant茅 !鈥� M茅langes en l鈥檋onneur d鈥橭livier Guillod (Neuch芒tel: Helbing Lichtenhahn Verlag, 2021). (Invited)听
• 鈥淟鈥檌nfluence de Robert P. Kouri sur la preuve de la causalit茅 en droit m茅dical鈥� in N. V茅zina et al. (eds), M茅langes Robert P. Kouri. L鈥檋umain au c艙ur du droit (Montr茅al: Yvon Blais/Thomson Reuters, 2021).听
• 鈥淧ublic Reporting, Transparency, and Patient Autonomy in the Province of Quebec鈥� (ch. 17) in C O鈥橬茅ill et al. (eds), Routledge Handbook of Global Health Rights (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021).听听
• L. Khoury, A. Blackett and L. Vanhonnaeker, 鈥淟egal Aspects of Genetic Testing Regarding Insurance and Employment. General Report鈥� in L. Khoury, A. Blackett and L. Vanhonnaeker (eds), Genetic Testing and the Governance of Risk in the Contemporary Economy, Ius Comparatum 鈥� Global Studies in Comparative Law 34 (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2020).听听
• L. Khoury and F. Horwood, 鈥淓lectronic Personal Health Records Implementation and Governance Challenges in Canada鈥� in M. Fathisalout-Bollon and A. Berti Suman (eds), Legal, Social and Ethical perspectives on Health & Technology (Universit茅 de Savoie, 2020).听
• 鈥淩茅flexions sur les enjeux de responsabilit茅 en lien avec la stimulation c茅r茅brale profonde dans le cadre du droit qu茅b茅cois鈥� in S. Desmoulin.Canselier et al. (eds), La stimulation c茅r茅brale profonde, de l鈥檌nnovation au soin. Les neurosciences cliniques 脿 la lumi猫re des sciences humaines et sociales (Hermann, Paris, 2019).听
• L. Khoury and R. Schur, 鈥淐ausation in Health Products Class Action Certification鈥� in L. Khoury and M.-E. Arbour (eds), Concilier la s茅curit茅 des produits et la responsabilit茅 civile 脿 l鈥櫭╮e du risque et de l鈥檌ncertitude (Montr茅al: Yvon Blais/Thomson Reuters, 2019).听
• with A. Klein, 鈥淭he Renewal of the Judicial Function in the Protection of Health: Visions in Constitutional, Criminal and Private Law鈥� in C. R茅gis,L. Khoury & R.P. Kouri (eds),鈥疕ealth Law at the Frontier.鈥疞es rencontres en droit de la sant茅 vol. 2,鈥疢ontreal, Yvon Blais, 2018, 442 pp.听
• 鈥淟a transparence dans le r茅seau de la sant茅鈥� in Vincent Gautrais, Catherine R茅gis & Laurence Largent茅 (eds),鈥疢茅langes Molinari, Montreal鈥�: 脡ditions Th茅mis, 2018.听
• Lara Khoury & Catherine R茅gis, 鈥淨uebec鈥檚 Contribution to Health Law & Policy Debates in Canada鈥� in J. Erdman, V. Gruben & E. Nelson (eds),鈥疌anadian Health Law and Policy, 5th鈥痚d., Toronto: Lexis Nexis, 2017, pp. 95-132.听
• 鈥淟a preuve et le pr茅judice 茅cologique鈥�, in Vincent Gautrais & Mustapha Mekki (eds),鈥疨reuve + d茅veloppement durable, Montr茅al, 脡ditions Th茅mis, 2017, pp. 75-98.听
• 鈥淚nt茅r锚t g茅n茅ral et litiges priv茅s en sant茅 publique鈥�: conflit ou collaboration ? 鈥� in Catherine R茅gis, Lara Khoury & Robert P. Kouri (eds),鈥疞es grands conflits en droit de la sant茅,鈥疢ontreal, Yvon Blais, 2016, p. 93-130.听
• 鈥淟鈥檌nfluence du principe de pr茅caution en droit de la responsabilit茅 civile canadien鈥�: Aspects substantiels et proc茅duraux鈥� in M. Boutonnet, L. Khoury & J.-C. Saint Pau (eds),鈥疞鈥檌nfluence du principe de pr茅caution en droit de la responsabilit茅 civile et p茅nale, regards franco-canadien,鈥�脡ditions de la RDUS, Sherbrooke, 2015.听
• "Une protection mitig茅e pour la sant茅 publique en droit de la responsabilit茅 civile qu茅b茅cois", dans鈥�. Christelle Landheer-Cieslak, Louise Langevin, eds. Thomson Reuters, 2015.听
• "Healthcare-associated infections" in Yann Joly & Bartha M. Knoppers,鈥�,鈥痗h. 11, Routledge, 2015.听

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