Career
After law school,Downie clerked for Chief Justice Lamer at the Supreme Court of Canada,and after graduate school she was the director of Dalhousie Health Law Institute. [3] In 2004,she published "Dying Justice:A Case for Decriminalizing Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in Canada." [4] In her role as director,she was selected to be a Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy [5] and sat on the Experts Committee for Human Research Participant Protection in Canada. [6] In 2010,Downie was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. [7]
In 2015,Downie was involved in the result of Carter v Canada. She served as a Special Advisor to the Canadian Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide and worked with the pro bono legal team in the case. [8] In the same year,Downie became the first scholar in Nova Scotia to be named a Pierre Trudeau Trudeau Foundation Fellow. [9] She used this fellowship to gather data regarding assisted dying in Canada. [10] She also sat on the Provincial-Territorial Expert Advisory Group on Physician-Assisted Dying. [11] The next year,she received the 2016 CIHR Barer-Flood Prize in Health Services and Policy Research. [12] On July 1,2016,Downie was appointed to University Research Professor for a five-year period. [13]
In 2018,Downie was appointed the James S. Palmer Chair in Public Policy and Law at Schulich School of Law. [3] She was also named a member of the Order of Canada. [14]
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