About the author

• Author: Steve Coughlan
• Pages: 483-483

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Steve Coughla n is a professor of law and the Associate Dean of Graduate

Studies at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University in Halifax.

He received an LL.B. from Dalhousie Law Sc hool and a Ph.D. in philoso-

phy from the University of Toronto, both in 1985. He has practised law

with the Metro Community Law Clinic and with the Dalhousie Legal

Aid Service, and al so worked with the criminal procedure project of the

Law Reform Commission of Canada. Having worked at Dalhousie Law

School in a variety of capacitie s, he was appointed to a tenure-track pos-

ition in 2000, was promoted to Associate Profes sor in 2001, and became

a full Professor in 200 4. His areas of teaching have included crimi nal law

and procedure, constitutional law, health law, and appellate advocacy.

His students have won many pri zes at competitive moots, including f‌irst

place overall in the Commonwealth Law Moot. Professor Coughlan has

received teaching awards at the faculty, university, and regional levels,

including the Dalhousie Law School Teaching Excellence Award, the

Hannah and Ha rold Barnett Award for Excellence in Teaching First Year

Law, the Dalhousie University Alumni Association Award of Excellence

for Teaching, and the Association of Atlantic Universitie s Distinguished

Teacher Award.

Professor Coughlan is an editor of the Criminal Reports and an au-

thor of the National Judicial Institute Criminal Law e-Letter. He is one

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

Learning Canadian Criminal Law (as of the 10th ed.). In addition, he is

a member of the Law and Technology Institute at the Schulich School

of Law and is one of the authors of the Canadian IT Law Association’s

newsletter on law and technology issues. The majority of his more than

150 articles, annotations, chapters, reports, and books have been in the

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

health law (particularly with regard to issues of elder abuse) and the

future of the legal profession.