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- About the Contributors / Quelques mots sur nos collaboratrices
Françoise Baylis is professor and Canada Research Chair in Bioethics and Philosophy at Dalhousie University. Much of her ethics research focuses on women’s reproductive health. She is a co-editor of The “Healthy” Embryo: Social, Biomedical, Legal and Philosophical Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2010), and co-editor of Family-Making: Contemporary Ethical Challenges (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Susan B. Boyd is professor of law and holds the chair in feminist legal studies at the University of British Columbia, where she is also director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies. She teaches and publishes in the fields of feminist legal theory and family law. Her recent work is on motherhood, law, and autonomy. She is a proud member of the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law.
Maryline Bruggeman est maître de conférences habilité à diriger des recherches à l’université Toulouse 1-Capitole rattachée à l’équipe d’accueil EA 1920. Ses travaux portent sur le droit des personnes et de la famille en général et en particulier sur les droits de l’enfant et l’évolution contemporaine du droit de la famille.
Karen Busby is a professor of law and the director of the Centre for Human Rights Research at the University of Manitoba. Her works focuses on laws related to sex, sexuality, sexual violence, sex work, sexual expression, and reproduction.
Alana Cattapan is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at York University. A long-time feminist researcher and activist, her PhD research examines public policy on assisted human reproduction, identifying links between the state, parenting, biotechnology, and the creation of a neo-liberal citizen-subject.
Christopher (Chip) Doig, MD (distinction), MSc, FRCPC, is professor and head of the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary. He is a former president of the Alberta Medical Association, currently a member of the board of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA), and a member of the CMA Committee on Ethics. Doig is a researcher and co-principal investigator of the Alberta Sepsis Network (funded by Alberta Innovates: Health Solutions).
Jocelyn Downie is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. She is a professor in the Faculties of Law and Medicine at Dalhousie University and a faculty associate of the Dalhousie Health Law Institute. She works at the intersection of health, law, and ethics.
Vanessa Gruben, BScH (Queen’s), LLB (Ottawa), LLM (Columbia), is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa. Gruben teaches in the areas of property law, family law, and health law and policy. Her research focuses on the legal regulation of various aspects of assisted human reproduction including contractual disputes over frozen embryos, privacy and access to information, gamete donor anonymity, and the constitutionality of the Assisted Human Reproduction Act. Her research also includes health law more generally as well as the protection of language rights in Canada.
Juliet Guichon, BA (Yale); BA, BCL, MA (Oxon.) SJD (Toronto), is assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary. Called to the Bar of Ontario, she serves on the Calgary Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board and is an award-winning lecturer. Her publications concern the intersection of law and medicine.
Stéphanie Hennette Vauchez est professeure de droit à l’Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. Elle travaille notamment sur l’encadrement juridique de la biomédecine. Dans ce domaine, elle a notamment publié à ce sujet: Disposer de soi? (L’Harmattan, 2004) et Le droit de la bioéthique (La Découverte, 2009), ainsi que de nombreux articles.
Marie-Andrée Jacobs’intéresse, de manière générale, aux relations entre le droit, la santé et la culture. Avec l’appui du UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, elle dirige présentement un projet de recherche sur la fraude scientifique et la faute professionnelle en science. Elle enseigne le droit à l’Université de Keele.
Stu Marvel is the 2012–14 post-doctoral fellow with the Vulnerability and Human Condition Initiative at the Emory University School of Law in...
