CIHR Training Program in
Health Law, Ethics and Policy
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
84 Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2C5
email: info@healthlawtraining.ca
Tel: 1 + 416.978.3724
Fax: 1 + 416.978.2648
Robert P. Kouri, LL.L., M.C.L., D.C.L.
Robert P. Kouri, LL.L., M.C.L., D.C.L.
Programmes en droit et politiques de la santé
Faculté de droit de l'Université de Sherbrooke
2500 boul. de l'Université
Sherbrooke, Québec
Canada, J1K 2R1
Dr. Kouri is a professor of law at the Faculté
de droit at the Université de Sherbrooke. He teaches and pursues
research in Health Law and Civil Law. He has published "La
responsabilité civile médicale" [Medical civil liability] (in
collaboration with Alain Bernardot) and "L'intégrité de la
personne et le consentement aux soins" 2nd edition
[Inviolability of the person and consent to care] (in
collaboration with Suzanne Philips-Nootens),"Éléments de
responsabilité civile médicale", 3rd edition [Elements of
medical civil liability] (in collaboration with Suzanne Philips-Nootens
and Pauline Lesage-Jarjoura), "Le mandat donné en prevision de
l'inaptitude" [Mandate given in anticipation of incapacity] (in
collaboration with Lucie Laflamme and Suzanne Philips-Nootens),
as well as several articles.
Professor Kouri was president of the Editorial Committee for the
first and second editions of the Private Law Dictionary and
Bilingual Lexicons at the Quebec Research Centre of Private and
Comparative Law. He was a visiting professor at the Faculty of
Law of McGill University. He acted as consultant to the Office
de révision du Code civil as well as to Justice Canada, the
Québec Ministère de la Justice, the Law Reform Commission of
Canada and the Medical Research Council of Canada. He is chair
of the Groupe de recherche en politiques de la santé de
l'Université de Sherbrooke and is a member of the Board of
Professional Advisors of the American Journal of Contemporary
Health Law and Policy. He also served as director of the
graduate programmes in Health Law and Policy as well as
Associate Dean (Research) at the Université de Sherbrooke.