Canadian Health Law and Policy, 5th Edition

Joanna N. Erdman is the Inaugural MacBain Chair in Health Law and Policy and an Associate Professor at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. Professor Erdman is also the Associate Director of its Health Law Institute. Her research focuses on sexual and reproductive health and human rights in a transnational context She is the coeditor of the Spanish-translated collection, Abortion Law in Transnational Perspective (UPenn 2014). Professor Erdman chairs the Global Health Advisory Committee of the Public Health Program, and serves on the advisory board of the Women's Rights Program, both of Open Society Foundations. She is also the past chair of the Gender and Rights Advisory Panel of the Reproductive Health and Research Department, World Health Organization. She received her BA and JD degrees from the University of Toronto, her LLM from Harvard, and completed a fellowship at Yale Law School.

Vanessa Gruben, B.Sc.H. (Queen's University), LL.B. (Ottawa), LL.M. (Columbia), is an Associate Professor and a member of the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Common Law. Her research focuses on the legal and ethical aspects of assisted human reproduction and organ donation as well as the regulation of health professionals. She has advised the Ontario government on various laws and policies relating to assisted human reproduction. Vanessa teaches Property Law, Public Health Law, Introduction to Health Law and a seminar on Access to Health Care. In addition to her scholarly work, she is a member of the Health Services Appeal and Review Board and the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board and has acted as legal counsel to Amnesty International at various tribunals and courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada.

Erin Nelson, B.Sc.P.T., LL.B. (Alberta), LL.M., J.S.D. (Columbia) is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta. She teaches Tort Law, Health Care Ethics and the Law, and Law & Medicine. Professor Nelson is a Fellow of the Health Law Institute, and has served as Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty (2009-11). In 2012-13, Professor Nelson served as Senior Legal Counsel to the Honourable Catherine Fraser, Chief Justice of Alberta. Professor Nelson's research interests include the interface of health care law and ethics, women's health, issues in reproductive health, and feminist legal theory. She has published articles and book chapters on numerous health law related topics, including consent, the regulation of health care practitioners, intervention in pregnancy, pediatric genetics and the tort law duties of pregnant women.