Lyne Létourneau is Associate Professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at Laval University. She holds a Doctorate degree in Law (2000) from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, as well as a Masters degree in Law (1993) and Bachelor degree in
...MoreLyne Létourneau is Associate Professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at Laval University. She holds a Doctorate degree in Law (2000) from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, as well as a Masters degree in Law (1993) and Bachelor degree in Law (1998) for the University of Montreal. Combining her legal background with an expertise in applied ethics, her research interests currently relate to the constitutive structures of the relationship between regulation and ethics in the fields of agriculture biotechnology and animal protection. Her research interests also extend to ethics and professionalism in research through her graduate course on scientific integrity. In addition to having published on animal protection law, animal ethics, and ethical issues raised by the genetic engineering of animals and plants, she is the author of L’expérimentation animale : l’homme, l’éthique et la loi (1990) and director of Bio-ingénierie et responsabilité sociale (2006). Lyne Létourneau was a member of the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee (CBAC) from 2002 until 2007.
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