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Allison Christians is Associate Dean (Research) and the H. Heward Stikeman Chair in the Law of Taxation at the 海角社区 Faculty of Law. Her research and teaching focus on national and international tax law and policy issues, with emphasis on the relationship between taxation and
economic development and on the role of government and non-government institutions and actors in the creation of tax policy norms.

Before entering academia, she practiced tax law at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York, where she focused on the taxation of domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, restructurings and associated issues and transactions involving private and public companies,
and at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York, where she focused mainly on private equity funds.

She taught at the University of Wisconsin Law School and Northwestern University School of Law before joining the Faculty of Law at 海角社区 in 2012.

Professor Khoury is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of law, an associate member of the Institute for Health & Social Policy and an elected associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. She was the Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Law from 2015 to 2017.
She is also a member of 海角社区鈥檚 Institute of Comparative Law and a Research Scholar at the Paul-Andr茅 Cr茅peau Centre for Private and Comparative Law. She convenes, with Professor Alana Klein, the 海角社区 Research Group on Health and Law. She teaches and conducts research in the fields of
comparative Medical, Public Health and Environmental Law, with a particular focus on liability issues.

She is the author of "Uncertain Causation in Medical Liability" (Hart Publishing, Oxford and Yvon Blais, Cowansville) which received the 2004 Prix Minerve and the 2008 Quebec Bar Foundation Prize. This monograph deals with the impact of scientific uncertainties on the proof of causation in
medical liability in English and Canadian common law, as well as in French and Qu茅bec civil law. Lara Khoury has completed a doctoral (D.Phil) degree at the University of Oxford, from where she also holds a master鈥檚 degree (B.C.L.).

Alana Klein
Associate Professor
514-398-2764
alana.klein [at] mcgill.ca

Associate Professor Alana Klein teaches and researches in health law, criminal law, and human rights. The position of marginalized groups and individuals in decentralized and privatized systems and the role of accountability requirements in governance and decision-making are primary
preoccupations in her research.

Prior to joining the Faculty, she was a senior policy analyst with the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, where she worked on HIV/AIDS and immigration, legal and other barriers to harm-reduction programs for people who use illegal drugs, and law reform to promote the rights of women
and girls in the context of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.

She has taught at Columbia Law School and Columbia University and has interned with the International Refugee Program at the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First) and with the Palestinian Ministry of Economy and Trade. In 2002-2003, she was a law clerk to former
Supreme Court of Canada justice Louise Arbour and she was appointed to the Ontario Human Rights Commission in 2006.

Daniel Weinstock
James Mcgill Professor
Director Mcgill institute for Health and Social Policy
514-398-2372
daniel.weinstock2 [at] mcgill.ca

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