Directory of Scholars

HEATHER MCLEOD-KILMURRAY

B.A., LL.B., LL.M., S.J.D. (PHD)
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

email hmcleodk@uottawa.ca

Primary Research Interests

  • Environmental dispute resolution (litigation, mediation, etc)
  • Private law (nuisance, negligence etc)

Secondary Research Interests

  • Biodiversity law
  • Environmental ethics & justice
  • Science & risk in environmental regulation

Selected Publications

  • Hollick and Environmental Class Actions: Putting the Substance into Class Action Procedure, (2002-03) 34 Ottawa Law Review 263.
  • Hoffman v Monsanto: Courts, Class Actions, and Perceptions of the Problem of GM Drift, (2007) Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society.
  • Toxic Battery: A Tort for our Time? (with Prof. L. Collins), (2008) 16 Tort Law review 131.
  • An Ecofeminist Legal Critique of Canadian Environmental Law: The Case Study of Genetically Modified Foods, (2009) 26 Windsor Review of Law and Social Issues (forthcoming)
  • Chapter on "Canada" (with Prof. J. Benidickson) in L. Kotze and A. Paterson, eds., The Role of the Judiciary in Environmental Governance: Comparative Perspectives, Kluwer Law International, 2009. (forthcoming)
  • Doctoral thesis: The procses of Judging the Environment: Civil Procedure, Environmental Ethics and their Effects on Environmental Law