Karen Busby is professor of law and the director of the Centre for Human Rights Research (CHRR) at the University of Manitoba. She has been with the Faculty since 1988, and she was the founding Director of the CHRR. Recipient of the University of Manitoba’s highest teaching award in 2015 (the Saunderson Award for Teaching Excellence), she teaches Constitutional Law, Gender and the Law, Human Rights and Administrative Law. She has a J.D. (Manitoba, 1981) and LL.M. (Columbia, 1988). She was called to the Manitoba Bar in 1982 and she practiced for a year with Thompson, Dorfman, Sweatman. After studying in France for a year, she was the first clerk with the Federal Court of Appeal (1984–87). Her work focuses on law related is various ways to sex (including violence, assisted reproduction, sex work, and sexual orientation), religion (Including a project on Muslim women) and politics (including drinking water and sanitation in First Nations communities).

Angela Cameron is an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. She holds the Shirley E. Greenberg Chair for Women and the Legal Profession. Her research is generally in the area of social justice, with particular attention to the equality rights and interests of women. Her research and publications are mainly in the areas of assisted reproductive technologies, violence against women, and Indigenous-settler relations. She is the Chair of FAFIA, a national feminist NGO, and has worked on a variety of law reform and activism projects within the feminist and LGBTQ+ communities.

Stefanie Carsley is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, Common Law Section. Her research focuses on Canadian law and policy responses to assisted reproduction (in vitro fertilization, surrogate motherhood and sperm, egg and embryo donation). Stefanie earned her Bachelor of Arts (BA, 2007) and Bachelor of Civil Law/Bachelor of Laws (BCL/LLB, 2011) degrees at McGill University and her Master of Laws (LLM, 2013) at the University of Toronto. Prior to returning to McGill to pursue her doctorate, she clerked for the Honourable Madam Justice Johanne Trudel at the Federal Court of Appeal. She was called to the Bar in Ontario in 2014. Stefanie’s doctoral dissertation draws on qualitative interviews with Canadian fertility lawyers to assess the strengths and shortcomings of laws that criminalize paid surrogacy, establish the parentage of children born to surrogate mothers and define the legal status of surrogacy contracts.

Alana Cattapan is the Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Reproduction (Tier II) and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. A longtime feminist researcher and activist, she studies women's participation in policy making—identifying links between the state, the commercialization of the body, biotechnologies, and reproductive labour. Cattapan's work is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation. Her research is interdisciplinary and has been published in journals across a range of fields, including Studies in Political Economy, the Journal of Medical Ethics, the Canadian Medical Association Journal, and the Canadian Journal of Law and Society.

Isabel Côté is an associate professor in the Department of Social Work at the Université du Québec en Outaouais. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Surrogate Motherhood and Family Ties and is interested in parental projects that are brought to life through the contribution of others, notably gamete or embryo donors or surrogate women. Its approach aims to develop a global understanding of surrogate reproduction by crossing the viewpoints of all parties, namely parents, third-party procreators, the children thus conceived and extended families. Based on innovative qualitative methodologies, her work combines theoretical contributions from the sociology of the family, the anthropology of kinship, and feminist and LGBTQ studies.

Alicia Czarnowski is a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. She completed her law degree at the same institution, where she received the McCarthy Tétrault LLP Second Year Prize for highest standing in the JD Program, as well as the Osgoode Society Prize for Canadian Legal History, awarded to the top 10 graduating students. Alicia went on to clerk for Justice Fothergill at the Federal Court of Canada, before returning to her formal studies. Alicia’s research focuses on health law, with a particular interest in assisted human reproduction. Alicia’s LLM examined how Canadian Blood Services could serve as a model for pan-Canadian governance of reproductive technologies. Her current research aims to gather empirical evidence on Canadian surrogacy agencies, in order to better understand their role. Alicia is also working with the Organ Donation and Transplantation Collaborative’s Working Group on Decision-Making and Accountability.

Vanessa Gruben is an associate professor and a member of the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, where she teaches health law and family law. Her research focuses on the legal and ethical aspects of assisted reproduction, including the constitutionality of Canada's Assisted Human Reproduction Act, the legal relationship between egg donors and their physicians, the constitutionality of anonymous sperm and egg donation, access to reproductive technologies, and the existing gaps in provincial law for families created through third-party reproduction. Gruben's work is funded by the Social Science and Humanities and Research Council, Canadian Blood Services, and the Foundation for Legal Research. She is a co-editor of the fifth edition of Canadian Health Law and Policy (LexisNexis Canada, 2017).

Dr. Léveillé is currently an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Ottawa, an Affiliate Investigator at the Ottawa Research Institute and the Scientific Director of the Ottawa Fertility Centre. She is a founding member of the ART Lab Special Interest Group of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society, and was its President from 2011 to 2012. She is also an active member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, the Alpha International Society of Scientists in Reproductive Medicine and the Society for Study of Reproduction. Dr. Léveillé’s expertise includes quality assurance and all laboratory-related areas in assisted human reproduction. She is involved in the development of professional standards for ART laboratories and is collaborating with scientific colleagues on studies to improve assisted reproductive technologies.

Erin Nelson is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta. She holds a BScPT and an LLB from the University of Alberta, and LLM and JSD degrees from Columbia University. Professor Nelson clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada and completed her articles, then spent two years as Project Manager at the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta. She joined the Faculty of Law in 2000, and teaches Tort Law, Health Care Ethics and the Law, Law and Medicine and Health Law and Policy. Her research interests span the health law spectrum, and include women's health, reproductive health, end-of-life decision-making, organ and tissue donation, and the interface of health care law and ethics. She has published articles and book chapters on a number of health law related topics.

Since 2013, Dr. Pamela White has been teaching Medical Law and Data Protection Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent. Previously she worked in Canada as Chief Privacy Officer Statistics Canada and held senior Director positions in departmental divisions such as Demography and Health Data Analysis. She holds a PhD in Human Geography, McGill University and from Kent Law School, University of Kent a LLM (Distinction). Dr White’s research interests centre on Canada’s misplaced reproductive law and laissez-faire regulation of fertility treatments. She uses assisted Canadian and USA reproductive registry information and birth registration data to examine compliance to professional fertility treatment guidelines and to profile surrogacy practices and outcomes. She has interviewed women and men about the decisions they have made regarding the use, donation, storage, and disposition of gamete and embryos.