Genetic Testing and the Governance of Risk in the Contemporary Economy

Lara Khoury, Ad. E., LLB (Sherb), BCL (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon), is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where she acted as the Associate Dean (Research) from 2015 to 2017. She is an associate member of the Institute for Health & Social Policy and of the Biomedical Ethics Unit, an elected titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, and a Research Scholar at the Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law. She co-convenes the McGill Research Group on Health and Law. Her teaching and research are in the fields of comparative Medical, Public Health and Environmental Law, with a particular focus on liability issues.Adelle Blackett, Ad. E., BA (Queen’s), LLB/BCL (McGill), LLM & JSD (Columbia), is Professor of Law & Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law & Development at the Faculty of Law, McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where she directs the Labour Law and DevelopmentResearch Laboratory.  A former Quebec human rights commissioner and independent International Labour Organization expert, she has authored, edited or co-edited 3 books & 5 special journal issues.  She was awarded SSHRC’s Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights Research (2010), the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellowship (2016), and the Quebec Bar’s Christine Tourigny Award of Merit (2014). Dr. Lukas Vanhonnaeker is a post-doctoral fellow and Course Lecturer at McGill University, Faculty of Law where he is conducting research in the field of international economic law with an emphasis on international investment law and arbitration as well as international corporate law. Dr. Vanhonnaeker completed his bilingual (French/English) bachelor’s degree in law at the Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis (Brussels, Belgium) in 2010 and his master’s degree in law at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, in 2012. He received his LL.M. in international business law from the Free University of Brussels in 2013 and he also holds an LL.M. (2014) and a PhD (2018) from McGill University.

• Introduction.- Part I Questionnaire and General Report / Questionnaire et rapport général.- Questionnaire.- General Report / Rapport général.- Part II National Reports from Asia / Rapports nationaux de l’Asie.- Genetic Testing in Employment and Insurance in Japan.- Part III National Reports from Europe / Rapports nationaux de l’Europe.- Genetic Testing in Employment and Insurance in Belgium.- Genetic Testing in Employment and Insurance in Cyprus.- Genetic Testing in Employment and Insurance in Czech Republic.-  L'utilisation des tests génétiques dans le domaine de l'assurance en droit français et européen : une affaire d'assurance et de politique publique.-  Genetic Testing in Employment and Insurance in Italy.- Genetic Testing in Employment and Insurance in Poland.- Genetic Testing in Employment and Insurance in Greece.- Genetic Testing in Employment and Insurance in the United Kingdom.-  Part IV National Reports from The Americas / Rapports nationaux des Amériques.- Genetic Testing in Employment and Insurance in Brazil.- Genetic Testing in Employment and Insurance in Canada.- Genetic Testing in Employment and Insurance in the Canadian Province of Quebec.