About the Author

• Author: Stephen Coughlan
• Profession: Professor of Law. Dalhousie University
• Pages: 427-427

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Stephen Coughlan is a profes sor of law at Dalhousie University in

Halifax. He received an LL.B. from Dalhousie Law School and a Ph.D.

in philosophy from the University of Toronto, both in 1985. He has

practised law with t he Metro Community Law Clinic and w ith the

Dalhousie Legal Aid Service, and has also worked with the criminal

procedure project of the Law Reform Commission of Canada. Having

worked at Dalhousie Law School in a variety of capacities, he was ap-

pointed to a tenure-track position in 2000, was promoted to Associ-

ate Professor in 2001, and became a full Professor in 20 04. His areas

of teaching have included cr iminal law and procedure, constitutional

law, health law, and appellate advocacy. His students have won many

prizes at competitive moots, including f‌irst pl ace overall in the Com-

monwealth Law Moot. Prof. Coughlan has received t he Dalhousie Law

School Teaching Excellence Award, the Hannah and Harold Barnett

Award for E xcellence in Teaching First Year Law, the Dalhousie Uni-

versity Alumni Association Award of Excellence for Teaching, and t he

Association of Atlantic Universities Disting uished Teacher Award.

Professor Coughlan is an editor of t he Criminal Reports and an

author of the National Judicial Inst itute Cri minal Law e-Letter. He is

one of the authors of the Carswell Annual Review of Criminal Law and of

Learning Canadian Criminal Law (10th ed.). In addition, he is a member

of the Law and Technology Institute at Dalhousie Law School and is

one of the authors of the Canadian IT Law Association’s newsletter on

law and technology issues. The majority of hi s more than 100 art icles,

annotations, chapters, reports, and books have been in the criminal

law f‌ield, but he has also published in other f‌ields, including health law

(particularly wit h regard to issues of elder abuse) and the future of the

legal profession.