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A. Alex Wellington
Associate Professor, Philosophy
Department
Ethics@Ryerson
Acting Director, Ethics
Network. Click here
Academic Lead and Certificate Coordinator, Continuing
Education Certificate in Ethics. Click here
Plus:
President of Canadian Section of International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Click here
Areas of Interest:
Philosophy of Law and Punishment
Ethics and Human Rights
International Law (including Human Rights and Intellectual Property)
Global Justice and Reparative Justice
Environmental Law and Policy
Conflict Analysis and Resolution (including Restorative Justice)
Applied Ethics: Practical and Professional Ethics
Current and Upcoming Courses:
Fall 2013:
PHL 612, Philosophy of Law
ES8921, Environmental Law (EnSciMan)
Winter 2013:
PHL 449, Philosophy of Punishment
PHL 612, Philosophy of Law
Courses Previously
Taught:
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UNDERGRADUATE: Bioethics (PHL 509), Ethics in Health Care (PHL 302) and Ethics in Health Services Management (PHL 444); Business Ethics (PHL 307); Media Ethics (PHL 530); Ethics in Professional Life (PHL 334)
Freedom, Equality and Limits to Authority (PHL 306); Human Rights and
Justice (PHL 400); Philosophy of Intellectual Property and Technology (PHL 921); Philosophy of the Natural Environment (PHL 500)
GRADUATE: Environmental Law (ES 8921, EnSciMan); Human Rights and Justice/ Philosophy and the Occupy Movement (PH8107, Philosophy) |
Publications - Articles, Book Chapters and
Book Reviews
| "Should Feminists Embrace Vegetarianism?". In James Cunningham, Samuel Hillier and Donal O'Reardon, editors, Introducing Philosophy: Questions and Readings. Emond Montgomery Publications, 2014. Revised from "Feminist Positions on Vegetarianism: A Response to Nicholas Dixon", Between the Species, Summer and Fall 1995. |
| "To Ban or Not To Ban: Direct To Consumer Advertising and Human
Rights Analysis". In Wesley Cragg, editor, Business and Human Rights. Edward Elgar, 2012. Click here |
"'Exquisite Examples' of Creative Judicial Dispute Resolution: The Potential of Alternative Dispute Resolution for Intellectual Property Cases", Intellectual Property Journal, Volume 23 (3), 2011, 289-326. |
| "Doha
Declaration"; "Intellectual Property Rights"; "Trade Related Aspects
of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs)"; "World Intellectual
Property Organization" and "Water". In Deen Chatterjee, editor, Encyclopedia of Global Justice (Springer, 2011). Click here |
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"To Ban or Not To Ban: Direct To Consumer Advertising and Human
Rights Analysis", Australasian Medical Journal, Volume 3,
2010, 749-766. Click
here |
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"Introduction".
Co-Authored with Allan Greenbaum and Ron Pushchak. In Allan
Greenbaum, Ron Pushchak and Alex Wellington, editors, Canadian
Issues in Environmental Law and Policy (Toronto, ON: Captus Press, 2009).
Pages 1-28. |
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"Bulk Water Removal: Legal and Political
Issues". Co-Authored with Mary Rollinson-Lorimer. In Allan
Greenbaum, Ron Pushchak and Alex Wellington, editors, Canadian
Issues in Environmental Law and Policy (Toronto, ON: Captus Press, 2009).
Pages 295-327. |
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"Environmental Law", co-authored with Allan
Greenbaum. In Laurence Olivo, editor, Introduction to
Law, Chapter 34 (Captus Press, 2009). |
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"Intellectual Property Law",
co-authored with Teresa Cheung. In Laurence Olivo,
editor, Introduction to Law, Chapter 33 (Captus Press, 2009). |
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Alex Wellington, "The Metes
and Bounds of Purposive Claim Construction in Canadian Patent Law",
Intellectual Property Journal, Volume 18(1), May 2004. |
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Alex Wellington, "Professional
Ethics for Mediators: Tensions Between Justice and Accountability".
In Cheryl Hughes and James Wong, editors. Communication, Conflict
and Reconciliation. Volume 17, Social Philosophy Today (Charlottesville, VA: Philosophy Documentation Center, 2003). Pages
125-130. |
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Alex Wellington, "'Rewriting
Genesis': Intellectual Property Rights and Global (In)Justice". In Yeager Hudson, editor, Globalism and the
Obsolescence of the State. Volume 20, Studies in Social and
Political Theory (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1999).
Pages 45-79. |
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Alex Wellington, "Taking Codes
of Ethics Seriously: Alternative Dispute Resolution and
Reconstitutive Liberalism". Canadian Journal of Law and
Jurisprudence, Volume 12(2), July 1999. Pages 297-332. |
Publications - Books:
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Allan Greenbaum and Alex
Wellington, Environmental Law and
Policy in the Canadian Context. (Toronto, ON: Captus Press,
2010). Click
here |
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Allan Greenbaum, Ron Pushchak
and Alex Wellington, editors, Canadian Issues in
Environmental Law and
Policy. (Toronto, ON: Captus Press, 2009).Click
here |
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Allan Greenbaum, Alex
Wellington and Ron Pushchak, Environmental Law in Social
Context (Toronto, ON: Captus Press, 2002). |
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Alex, Wellington, Allan
Greenbaum and Wesley Cragg, editors, Canadian Issues in
Environmental Ethics (Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press,
1997). Click here |
Other Publications - Reports
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Ted Schrecker and Alex
Wellington, Patenting of Higher Life Forms and Human Biological
Materials: An Introduction to the Issues. Prepared for Project
Steering Committee on Intellectual Property and the Patenting of
Higher Life Forms. (Ottawa, ON: Canadian Biotechnology Advisory
Committee, 2001). Click
here |
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Ted Schrecker and Alex
Wellington, Patenting of Biotechnological Innovations Concerning
Animals and Human Beings. (Ottawa, ON: Canadian Biotechnology
Advisory Committee, 2000; completed 1999).
Click
here
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Ted Schrecker, C. Barry
Hoffmaster, Margaret A. Somerville and Alex
Wellington, Biotechnology, Ethics and Government, in
Renewal of the Canadian Biotechnology Strategy, Resource
Document 3.4.1, Background Research Papers, Ethics (Ottawa, ON:
Industry Canada, March 1998; completed 1996), 135-261.
Click
here |
Presentations
"From Thought Experiments to the Real World: Experimental Philosophy and Teaching and Research in Practical Ethics". Keynote Address for the Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics (CSSPE), Congress, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, June 4, 2013. |
"Rethinking Corporate Punishment", International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Canadian Section, Congress, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, June 1, 2013. |
| "Promoting Access to Medicines Through Performance Based Innovation Rewards". Academics Stand Against Poverty, Ryerson University, October 27, 2012. Click here and here |
| "Conceptualizing Compliance in the Context of International Law", International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Canadian Section, Congress, University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, May 26, 2012. |
| "Genetic Injustice and Noxious Markets", 28th International Social Philosophy Conference, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 21, 2011. |
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"The Right to Water: Human Rights and Global
Justice", 27th International Social Philosophy Conference, Ryerson
University, Toronto, Ontario, July 15, 2010. |
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"The Nature and Justification of International Law:
Focusing on the Intersectionality of Human Rights", International
Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Canadian
Section, Congress, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, May 29, 2010. |
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"Ethical Governance and Benefit Sharing in Biomedical
Research", Second Annual Pan American Collaboration for Ethics in
the Professions (PACE), University of Texas- Pan American, Edinburg,
Texas, April 13, 2010. |
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"Symposium on Business Ethics and Human Rights",
Canadian Business Ethics Research Network, York University, Toronto,
Ontario, February 25-28, 2010. |
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"Banning Direct to Consumer Advertising of
Pharmaceuticals: A Human Rights Analysis of Third Party Paternalism
for Policy Reasons": Society for Business Ethics, Annual Meeting,
Chicago, Illinois, August 7, 2009. |
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"Benefit Sharing and Human Rights in Contest:
Governance Models to the Rescue?". Co-Presented with Mary
Rollinson-Lorimer. Association for Practical and Professional
Ethics, Eighteenth Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 7, 2009. |
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"Human Rights to Health and Environmental
Protection":
Rhetoric versus Reality". Co-Presented with Mary Rollinson-Lorimer,
Environmental Studies Association of Canada, Vancouver, British
Columbia, June 6, 2008. |
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"Policy Debates Over Direct to Consumer
Advertising", Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics,
Vancouver, British Columbia, June 2, 2008. |
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"Banning Direct to Consumer Advertising of
Pharmaceuticals", Association for Practical and Professional Ethics,
San Antonio, Texas, February 23, 2008. |
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"Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Tensions and
Hopes for Reconciliation", Association for Practical and
Professional Ethics, Jacksonville, Florida, March 3, 2006. |
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"Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Critique,
Proposals for Reform and Three Generations", Association for Legal
and Social Philosophy, Trinity College, Dublin, July 1, 2006. |
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"Freedom of Expression and Intellectual Property:
Censorship, Silencing and Copyright", Ethics, Creativity and
Copyright Conference, University of Calgary and Banff Centre, August
4, 2006. |
Research Projects
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SSHRC Funded Research, Standard Research Grant
Principal Investigator,
2006-2009
TITLE:
"Ethical Challenges of Biotechnology Governance: Sustainability
Through Innovation, Human Rights and Environmental Protection".
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SSHRC
Funded Research Development Initiative (Co-Investigator), Principal Investigator:
Wesley Cragg.
FOCUS: "Ethics at the Business/ Health Care Interface". |
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SSHRC
Funded Strategic Knowledge Cluster (Co-Investigator), 2007-2014, Principal
Investigator: Wesley Cragg.
FOCUS: CBERN, Canadian Business Ethics
Research Network. |
Summer 2007, Summer 2008, Fall 2008 and Winter 2009 
Names of Students: Susan Lai, Communication and Culture
(Masters) (Summer 2008)
Mary Rollinson-Lorimer, Environmental Applied Science and
Management (Masters) (All 4 Terms)
Liana Anoushka Pullenayegem, Environmental Applied Science
and Management (Masters) (Summer 2007)
Name of Project: Ethical Challenges of Biotechnology
Governance: Sustainability Through Innovation, Human Rights and
Environmental Protection
Source of Funding: SSHRC Grant
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Summer 2010
Name of Student: Maya Nightingale-Fitzer, Arts and
Contemporary Studies (Bachelors)
Name of Project: Application of Human Rights Impact Assessment
to Selected Case Studies
Source of Funding: Undergraduate Research Opportunities (URO)
Scholars Program, Office of Research Services (ORS)Ryerson
University
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Research Project: Litigation Strategies for Climate Justice
Student Researcher: Peter Moore, Environmental Applied Science and Management (Masters) (Winter - Summer 2012)
Student Researcher: David Spence, Environmental Applied Science and Management (Masters) (Winter - Summer 2011)
Source of Funding: Faculty of Arts, Ryerson University |
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