Roxanne Mykitiuk

Roxanne Mykitiuk, BA, LLB, LLM, JSD, is a Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto and Director of the Disability Law Intensive Program. She is also Director of the Graduate Program in Health Law in the Professional Development Program and core faculty in the graduate program in Critical Disability Studies.  From 1990-1992 she was Senior Legal Researcher for the Canadian Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies. From 2002-2006 she was a member of the Ontario, Advisory Committee on Genetics and from 2005-2008, she was a member of the Ethics Committee of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada. In 2009 Professor Mykitiuk was scholar in residence at the Law Commission of Ontario working on the Disability and Law Project. Professor Mykitiuk was the Chair of York University’s Senate from 2013-2015. She is currently on the Board of Directors of ARCH Disability Law Clinic.

 She is nationally and internationally recognized for her work in disability law and the legal construction and regulation of embodiment, and the regulation of new health technologies.  Roxanne has been consulted by a range of actors in policy making and litigation contexts and provided expert opinions related to her areas of expertise. Her recent research projects have been funded by CIHR, SSHRC, NSERC, the Australian Research Council and the European Research Council.