** *Professor Jocelyn Downie (Dalhousie University)* * *
*will be giving a seminar on* *End of Life Law and Policy: A New Arena for Restorative Justice* * * *Date: Friday 30 September from 1.30 to 3.30 pm.* The seminar will be hosted by the *Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE)*, and will be held in building *W6A room 708, Macquarie University*. * * *Jocelyn Downie writes: * *In this talk I will suggest that restorative justice might provide a new direction and a new way to resolve some of the myriad problems with the current approach taken to euthanasia and assisted suicide in a number of countries. To that end, I will first describe the way euthanasia and assisted suicide are currently handled by the legal system in Canada. I will then describe restorative justice and highlight some of the differences in both substance and process as between the traditional approach currently in use and the proposed restorative approach. I will follow this with an explanation of how a restorative justice approach could actually be implemented in this arena, flagging important challenges to doing so. In the end, I will conclude that taking a restorative justice approach to euthanasia and assisted suicide could enable movement in the seemingly intractable debate and the adoption of a more effective and compassionate response to extraordinarily difficult situations.* -- Dr Paul Taylor Projects Co-ordinator Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics Philosophy Department Macquarie University Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia Phone: (02)98506774
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