Roxanne Mykitiuk is an Associate Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School where she teaches in the areas of Law and Disability, Family Law, and Health Law and Bioethics.  From 1990-92 she was Senior Legal Researcher for the Canadian Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies. In 2002, she was appointed to the Ontario Advisory Committee on Genetics. In 2009, she was Scholar in Residence at the Law Commission of Ontario working on their project on reforming the law as it relates to people with disabilities

Professor Mykitiuk is the author or co-author of a number of articles and book chapters investigating legal, ethical and social implications of new reproductive technologies and the new genetics and the legal construction and regulation of embodiment and disability. She holds a number of current research grants funded by SSHRC, CIHR and Genome Canada.

Her most recent publications include:

Risky Pregnancy:  Liability, Blame and Insurance in the Governance of Prenatal Harms, co-authored with Dayna Nadine Scott, UBC Law Review (2011);

Feminist Legal Theory as Embodied Justice, co-authored with Isabel Karpin in Martha Fineman and Celeste Bocchicchio (eds.), Transcending the Boundaries of Law, New York: Routledge (2010);

The Social Determinants of ‘Health’ of Embryos: Practices, Purposes, and Implications, co-authored with Jeff Nisker in Jeff Nisker, Francoise Baylis, Isabel Karpin, Carolyn McLeod & Roxanne Mykitiuk (eds.), The "Healthy'" Embryo: Social, Biomedical, Legal and Philosophical Perspectives, Cambridge University Press (2010);

Sites of Exclusion: Disabled Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Rights, co-authored with Ena Chadha in Lee Ann Basser, Melinda Jones and Marcia Rioux (eds.), Critical Perspectives on Human Rights and Disability Law, Martinus Nijhoff, Brill Publishers (2011);

Wrongful Birth Litigation, Clinical Practice Guidelines on Prenatal Screening, and Implications for Physicians, Patients and Disabled Canadians, co-authored with Mark Pioro and Jeff Nisker, (November 24, 2008) 179(10) The Canadian Medical Association Journal 1027-1030;

Gender Equity in Clinical Trials in Canada: Aspiration or Achievement? co-authored with Patricia Peppin, (Fall 2008) 1:2 International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 100-124;

Going Out on a Limb: Prosthetics, Normalcy and Disputing the Therapy/Enhancement Distinction, co-authored with Isabel Karpin, (Autumn 2008) 16 The Medical Law Review 413-436;

Informed Consent to Donate Embryos for Research Purposes, Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada (SOGC) Ethics Committee Clinical Practice Guideline on Donation of Embryos to Research, co-authored with Erin Nelson and Jeff Nisker, (September 2008) 215 Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Canada 824-829;

Constructing ‘Health’, Defining ‘Choice’: Legal and Policy Perspectives on the Post-PGD Embryo in Four Jurisdictions, co-authored with Estair Van Wagner and Jeff Nisker, (2008) 9(1) Medical Law International 45-92.

She is also the co-editor with Martha Fineman of The Public Nature of Private Violence (Routledge, 1994); the co-editor with Margrit Shildrick of Ethics of the Body: Rethinking the Conventions (MIT Press, 2005); and the co-author with Trudo Lemmens and Mireille Lacroix of Reading the Future: Legal and Ethical Challenges of New Predictive Genetic Testing (Les Editions Themis, 2007); and the co-editor with Jeff Nisker, Francoise Baylis, Isabel Karpin and Carolyn McLeod of The “Healthy” Embryo: Social, Biomedical, Legal and Philosophical Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Research Areas: health law, disability law, feminist legal studies, family law