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Teresa Scassa (Contributor)
Teresa Scassa is the Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy and a Full Professor in the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section
at the University of Ottawa, where she is a member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society. Her research addresses digital and data governance issues. She has written widely in the areas of privacy law, data governance, intellectual property law, law and technology, artificial intelligence, and smart cities. She is Co-Editor of the books AI and the Law in Canada (2021), Law and the Sharing Economy (2017), and The Future of Open Data (2022), and Co-Author of Digital Commerce in Canada (2020) and Canadian Intellectual Property Law (2022).
Anne Levesque is Associate Professor in the French Common Law Program at the University of Ottawa. Her research and her publications focus on human rights and public interest litigation. Anne has practiced in the areas of employment, human rights, and public interest law. She has worked with a wide range of equality seeking groups, legal clinics, and non-for-profit organisations on test case litigation, interventions, and law reform initiatives. She studied history and political science before obtaining her law degree from the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law (French Common Law Program) in 2007, followed by a Master's degree in International Human Rights from Oxford University in 2016. She is one of the lawyers representing the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada pro bono in its human rights complaint leading to a landmark victory in 2016 that affirms the right to equality of over 165,000 First Nations children. Ravi Malhotra (Contributor)
Ravi Malhotra is Full Professor in the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa. Vanessa Gruben (Contributor)
Vanessa Gruben B.Sc.H (Queen's), LL.B. (Ottawa), LL.M. (Columbia) is Vice Dean (Academic) and Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Common Law and a member of the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics. She also leads the Ottawa Hub for Harm Reduction - a multidisciplinary forum for scholars and community organizations who work on innovative harm reduction strategies. She is also co-editor of the 5th edition of Canada's leading text on health law and policy in Canada, Canadian Health Law and Policy, co-edited with Joanna Erdman and Erin Nelson (LexisNexis, 2017). Professor Gruben teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Health Law and a seminar on Access to Health Care. Sam Halabi (Contributor)
Sam Halabi is Professor at Georgetown University's School of Health, Director of the Center for Transformational Health Law, and Affiliate Researcher at the Center for Global Health Science and Security. He was previously Senior Associate VP for Health Policy and Ethics at Colorado State University as well as Professor and Director of the Center for Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship at the University of Missouri, where he received the Husch Blackwell Award for Distinguished Teaching. Halabi has authored 5 books and over 80 publications on topics such as vaccine deployment, public health ethics, data sharing, and emergency response. Y. Y. Brandon Chen (Contributor)
Y. Y. Brandon Chen is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa.
Content
INTRODUCTION
Overview of COVID-19: Old and New Vulnerabilities
Colleen M. Flood, Vanessa MacDonnell, Jane Philpott, Sophie Thériault and Sridhar Venkatapuram
SECTION A: WHO DOES WHAT?
CHALLENGES AND DEMANDS OF CANADIAN FEDERALISM
CHAPTER A-1
Have the Post-SARS Reforms Prepared Us for COVID-19? Mapping the Institutional Landscape
Katherine Fierlbeck and Lorian Hardcastle
CHAPTER A-2
COVID-19 and First Nations' Responses
Aimée Craft, Deborah McGregor, and Jeffery Hewitt
CHAPITRE A-3
Réflexions sur la mise en oeuvre de la Loi sur la santé publique au Québec dans le contexte de la pandémie de COVID-19
Michelle Giroux
CHAPITRE A-4
La COVID-19 au Canada : le fédéralisme coopératif à pied d'oeuvre
David Robitaille
CHAPTER A-5
Pandemic Data Sharing: How the Canadian Constitution Has Turned into a Suicide Pact
Amir Attaran and Adam R. Houston
CHAPTER A-6
The Federal Emergencies Act: A Hollow Promise in the Face of COVID-19?
Colleen M. Flood and Bryan Thomas
CHAPTER A-7
Resisting the Siren's Call: Emergency Powers, Federalism, and Public Policy
Carissima Mathen
CHAPTER A-8
Municipal Power and Democratic Legitimacy in the Time of COVID-19
Alexandra Flynn
SECTION B: MAKING SURE SOMEONE IS ACCOUNTABLE:
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE RESPONSIBILITIES
CHAPTER B-1
Ensuring Executive and Legislative Accountability in a Pandemic
Vanessa MacDonnell
CHAPTER B-2
Good Governance: Institutions, Processes, and People
Mel Cappe
CHAPTER B-3
The Duty to Govern and the Rule of Law in an Emergency
Grégoire Webber
CHAPTER B-4
Does Debunking Work? Correcting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media
Timothy Caulfield
CHAPTER B-5
The Media Paradox and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Jeffrey Simpson
CHAPTER B-6
Governmental Power and COVID-19:
The Limits of Judicial Review
Paul Daly
CHAPTER B-7
Liability of the Crown in Times of Pandemic
Marie-France Fortin
CHAPTER B-8
Balancing Risk and Reward in the Time of COVID-19:
Bridging the Gap Between Public Interest and the "Best Interests of the Corporation"
Jennifer A. Quaid
SECTION C: CIVIL LIBERTIES VS. IDEAS OF PUBLIC HEALTH
CHAPTER C-1
Civil Liberties vs. Public Health
Colleen M. Flood, Bryan Thomas, and Dr. Kumanan Wilson
CHAPTER C-2
Privacy, Ethics, and Contact-Tracing Apps
Teresa Scassa, Jason Millar, and Kelly Bronson
CHAPTER C-3
Should Immunity Licences be an Ingredient in our Policy Response to COVID-19?
Daniel Weinstock and Vardit Ravitsky
CHAPTER C-4
The Punitive Impact of Physical Distancing Laws on Homeless People
Terry Skolnik
CHAPTER C-5
The Right of Citizens Abroad to Return During a Pandemic
Yves Le Bouthillier and Delphine Nakache
SECTION D: EQUITY AND COVID-19
CHAPTER D-1
How Should We Allocate Health and Social Resources During a Pandemic?
Sridhar Venkatapuram
CHAPITRE D-2
COVID-19 et âgisme : crise annoncée dans les centres de soins de longue durée et réponse improvisée ?
Martine Lagacé, Linda Garcia et Louise Bélanger-Hardy
CHAPTER D-3
Fault Lines: COVID-19, the Charter, and Long-term Care
Martha Jackman
CHAPTER D-4
The Front line Defence: Housing and Human Rights in the Time of COVID-19
Leilani Farha and Kaitlin Schwan
CHAPTER D-5
COVID-19 in Canadian Prisons: Policies, Practices and Concerns
Adelina Iftene
CHAPTER D-6
Systemic Discrimination in Government Services and Programs and Its Impact on First Nations Peoples During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Anne Levesque and Sophie Thériault
CHAPTER D-7
Preventing the Spread of Anti-Asian Racism:
Including Critical Race Analysis in a Pandemic Plan
Jamie Chai Yun Liew
CHAPTER D-8
Migrant Health in a Time of Pandemic:
Fallacies of Us-Versus-Them
Y.Y. Brandon Chen
CHAPTER D-9
Not All in This Together: Disability Rights and COVID-19
Tess Sheldon and Ravi Malhotra
CHAPTER D-10
Weighing Public Health and Mental Health Responses to Non-Compliance with Public Health Directives in the Context of Mental Illness
Jennifer A. Chandler, Yasmin Khaliq, Mona Gupta, Kwame McKenzie, Simon Hatcher, and Olivia Lee
SECTION E: THIS JOB IS GONNA KILL ME:
WORKING AND COVID-19
CHAPTER E-1
Privatization and COVID-19: A Deadly Combination for Nursing Homes
Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, and Ivy Bourgeault
CHAPTER E-2
A View from the Front Lines of a COVID-19 Outbreak
Jane Philpott
CHAPTER E-3
Occupational Health and Safety and COVID-19:
Whose Rights Come First in a Pandemic?
Katherine Lippel
CHAPTER E-4
Risking It All: Providing Patient Care and Whistleblowing During a Pandemic
Vanessa Gruben and Louise Bélanger-Hardy
CHAPTER E-5
Worked to the Bone: COVID-19, the Agrifood Labour Force, and the Need for More Compassionate Post-Pandemic Food Systems
Sarah Berger Richardson
SECTION F: GLOBAL HEALTH AND GOVERNANCE
CHAPTER F-1
"Flattening the Curve" Through COVID-19 Contagion Containment
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram
CHAPTER F-2
The Plausibility and Resolvability of Legal Claims Against China and WHO under the International Health Regulations (2005)
Sam Halabi and Kumanan Wilson
CHAPTER F-3
COVID-19 and Africa: Does "One Size Fit All" in Public Health Intervention?
Chidi Oguamanam
CHAPTER F-4
Border Closures: A Pandemic of Symbolic Acts in the Time of COVID-19
Steven J. Hoffman and Patrick Fafard
CHAPTER F-5
COVID-19 and Accountable Artificial Intelligence in a Global Context
Céline Castets-Renard and Eleonore Fournier-Tombs
CHAPTER F-6
International Trade, Intellectual Property, and Innovation Policy:
Lessons from a Pandemic
Jeremy de Beer and E. Richard Gold
CHAPTER F-7
COVID-19 Vaccines as Global Public Goods
Jason W. Nickerson and Matthew Herder
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