Promoting the “Human” in Law, Policy, and Medicine

Professor Bartha Maria Knoppers stepped down from the Canada Research Chair in Law and Medicine at McGill University in April 2024, a post she held for more than 20 years. Professor Knoppers consistently prioritized “humanity” in her academic work and in policymaking. As such, she forged a strong intellectual legacy, notably through her work on the human right to science, genomic and health-related data sharing, genome editing, human reproductive technologies, stem cell research, the rights of children, and population health. This collection of essays honours her extraordinary academic contributions to law, policy, and medicine.

Edward S. Dove is Professor of Law at Maynooth University and an Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Among other works, he is author of Regulatory Stewardship of Health Research: Navigating Participant Protection and Research Promotion (Edward Elgar, 2020).Vasiliki Rahimzadeh is Assistant Professor of medical ethics and health policy at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Her National Institutes of Health-funded research program focuses on the ethical, legal, and social issues of sharing genomic and related health data.Michael J. S. Beauvais is a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law. He researches the privacy of young people. He is an affiliate of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (Toronto) and the Information Law Institute (NYU).