Alex Wellington
Associate Professor
Cross-appointed to Faculty of Law, Ryerson University
Faculty of Arts
Department of Philosophy
Toronto, Ontario
awelling@torontomu.ca
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(416) 979-5000 ext. 4057
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Alex Wellington is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). She earned her LLB (now JD), an LLM in Alternative Dispute Resolution and an LLM in Intellectual Property from Osgoode Hall Law School (in 1987, 1999, and 2008 resp...
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Bio/Research
Alex Wellington is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). She earned her LLB (now JD), an LLM in Alternative Dispute Resolution and an LLM in Intellectual Property from Osgoode Hall Law School (in 1987, 1999, and 2008 respectively). She received her PhD in Philosophy from York University in 2000 (having completed a previous Honours Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy). In between, she completed a Master of Environmental Studies at York University in 1990. Alex joined Toronto Met as a sessional instructor in 2000 and as an assistant professor in 2002.
Wellington’s research interests are oriented to the conceptualization of legal rights as potential sources of social power in diverse contexts. Two particular areas of current interest include (i) the need for legal rights for transgender persons to enable their expressive freedom, empower their bodily autonomy and protect their dignity (a book project); and (ii) the importance of situating the human rights to water in creative tension with market environmentalism, to realize a socially just, ecologically sustainable world. Past research has focused on the defence of the legal right to same-sex marriage and scrutiny of the implications of patent protection for the human right to health. Alex has previously engaged in SSHRC-funded research (as principal investigator) on the Ethical Challenges of Biotechnology Governance: Sustainability Through Innovation, Human Rights and Environmental Protection, and (as co-investigator) for the Canadian Business Ethics Research Network (CBERN).
Wellington was the academic lead and chair of the Curriculum Committee for the Chang School of Continuing Education Certificate in Ethics (launched in 2013). She served for several years as acting director of the Ethics Network and Co-Coordinator of the Ethics@Ryerson Speaker Series on Human Rights Across the Professions (Focus for 2008-2009: Conflict Resolution Across the Professions; Focus for 2007-2008: Advertising, Branding and Intellectual Property; Focus for 2006-2007: Privacy and Access to Information and the Professions).
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Wellington’s research interests are oriented to the conceptualization of legal rights as potential sources of social power in diverse contexts. Two particular areas of current interest include (i) the need for legal rights for transgender persons to enable their expressive freedom, empower their bodily autonomy and protect their dignity (a book project); and (ii) the importance of situating the human rights to water in creative tension with market environmentalism, to realize a socially just, ecologically sustainable world. Past research has focused on the defence of the legal right to same-sex marriage and scrutiny of the implications of patent protection for the human right to health. Alex has previously engaged in SSHRC-funded research (as principal investigator) on the Ethical Challenges of Biotechnology Governance: Sustainability Through Innovation, Human Rights and Environmental Protection, and (as co-investigator) for the Canadian Business Ethics Research Network (CBERN).
Wellington was the academic lead and chair of the Curriculum Committee for the Chang School of Continuing Education Certificate in Ethics (launched in 2013). She served for several years as acting director of the Ethics Network and Co-Coordinator of the Ethics@Ryerson Speaker Series on Human Rights Across the Professions (Focus for 2008-2009: Conflict Resolution Across the Professions; Focus for 2007-2008: Advertising, Branding and Intellectual Property; Focus for 2006-2007: Privacy and Access to Information and the Professions).
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