Tracey M. Bailey, B.A., LL.B. & Nola M. Ries

Tracey M. Bailey, B.A., LL.B., is the Executive Director of the Health Law Institute, an Adjunct Professor with the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, and a Sessional Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta. She is co-editor of the Health Law Journal and the Health Law Review and has authored numerous other articles and reports, and is currently a member of numerous ethics and policy related committees.

Nola M. Ries, MPA, LLM, is a Research Associate with the Health Law Institute, University of Alberta, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria where she teaches courses in health law with the Faculty of Law and School of Health Information Science. She also offers consulting services to clients in health, government, academic and not-for-profit sectors. Nola has authored over 50 articles, book chapters and major reports on various topics in health law and policy.

In addition, the Public Health title benefits from the combined expertise of many of Canada's leading specialists in public health law and medicine.

Joanna Harrington, B.A. (U. Brit. Col.), LL.B. (U. Victoria), Ph.D. (Cambridge), is a Professor with the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta and a recognized expert in both constitutional law and public international law. She was a member of Canadian delegations to the United Nations General Assembly and the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and has participated in the negotiation of new human rights instruments at both the United Nations and the Organization of American States. Professor Harrington has also worked as consultant with the British Council and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and she has assisted counsel litigating extradition and national security cases in domestic courts, as well as international human rights cases before the (United Nations) Human Rights Committee and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.