Halsbury's Laws of Canada – Public Health (2023 Reissue) / Public Inquiries (2023 Reissue) / Public International Law (2023 Reissue)

Dr. Leanne E. Tran, B.Sc., J.D., M.D is a health lawyer with over 25 years of combined experience in the health and legal sectors. She is the Managing Research Counsel and Head of the Health, Law, Innovation, and Policy Lab (HLIP Lab) at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute (LTRI), Sinai Health System (Sinai Health). Prior to joining Sinai Health, Dr. Tran worked at a global law firm, a boutique health law firm, a medical device company, and in-house at two Toronto teaching and research hospitals. She is also the Principal at JD MD Solutions, which offers services at the interface of law, medicine, science, and research. Dr. Tran is a board director of several non-profit healthcare organizations and is an executive member of several legal associations. She is also a Legal/Privacy Expert and Scientific member of the Women’s College Hospital Research Ethics Board. Dr. Tran has taught courses and workshops at the University of Toronto (U of T) and its affiliated hospitals, and is Adjunct Faculty at the U of T Faculty of Law. She has also led clinical research and quality improvement projects at several academic hospitals and at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), receiving grant funding for her research, including from the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA). Dr. Tran has written, published, and spoken extensively on medical and legal matters in Canada, the United States, and Europe. She has authored numerous papers and four medical legal books: Canadian Health Information: A Practical Legal and Risk Management Guide, 4th Edition (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2018); Outbreaks: A Practical Legal and Risk Management Primer for the Healthcare Sector (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2021); Halsbury’s Laws of Canada – Public Health (2023 Reissue) (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2023); and The Canadian Law of Consent to Treatment, 4th Edition (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2023). Dr. Tran is currently writing several other medical legal books to be published over the next few years.

Hon. Stephen Goudge, Q.C., O.Ont., LL.B. (Hons.), was appointed to the Court of Appeal for Ontario in 1996. He served on that Court until 2014. He is presently counsel to Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP. He teaches Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility at Osgoode Hall Law School, and serves on the Board of Governors of the Law Commission of Ontario.

Andrew K. Lokan, B.A., M.A., LL.B., LL.M., is a partner at Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP, where he practices in the areas of constitutional and administrative law, commercial litigation, and appellate advocacy. He teaches Constitutional Litigation at Osgoode Hall Law School, and is co-author of a text on constitutional litigation. He serves as chair of the board of directors of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

Heather MacIvor, B.A. (Hons.), M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D., J.D., is a Content Development Associate at LexisNexis Canada. A former political scientist, Heather clerked at the Divisional Court and articled in the Constitutional Law Branch in Ontario’s Ministry of the Attorney General. She has worked on several Halsbury’s Laws of Canada titles, including Administrative Law, Constitutional Law (Division of Powers), Crown, Criminal Offences and Defences, Legislation, and Civil Procedure. Heather is also the co-author, with the Honourable Stephen Goudge, of Commissions of Inquiry (LexisNexis Canada, 2019).

Joanna Harrington, B.A., J.D., Ph.D., is a Professor in the Faculty of Law and the Associate Dean Research for the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Alberta. She specializes in public international law, international organizations, human rights law, and international and transnational criminal law, including foreign corruption and extradition. Her work has been published widely in law journals and edited collections, and she is a co-author of the Canadian text International Law: Doctrine, Practice, and Theory, 3rd ed. (Irwin Law, 2022). Career honours include a Fulbright Scholar award, the Canadian Association of Law Teachers Prize for Academic Excellence, and the Law Society of Alberta-Canadian Bar Association Alberta Branch Distinguished Service Award in Legal Scholarship, as well as visiting appointments at the University of New South Wales (Australia), the University of Oxford, and the University of Texas at Austin. From 2018 to 2021, she served as a member of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, and from 2010 to 2015, she served as an associate dean with university-wide responsibilities for post-graduate education. From 2006 to 2008, she served as the scholar-in-residence with Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (now Global Affairs Canada), providing advice to government on matters of international law, and representing Canada at the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. She has testified as an expert witness in court and before parliamentary committees, and has contributed to human rights capacity-building projects with the United Nations Development Programme.