Erin Nelson, BScPT (Alberta), LLB (Alberta), LLM (Columbia), JSD (Columbia)
Contact
Professor, Faculty of Law - Admin
- elnelson@ualberta.ca
- Address
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469 Law Centre
8820 - 111 St NWEdmonton ABT6G 2H5
Overview
About
Professor Erin Nelson teaches Tort Law, Health Care Ethics and the Law, and Law & Medicine. She is a Fellow and member of the Advisory Board of the Health Law Institute. Professor Nelson obtained her B.Sc.P.T. in 1991 and her LL.B.. in 1995, both from the University of Alberta. After clerking for Mr. Justice John Sopinka of the Supreme Court of Canada, Professor Nelson completed her articles at Witten Binder in Edmonton. She then spent two years as Project Manager at the Health Law Institute in the Faculty of Law before leaving for Columbia University to pursue graduate work in health law.
Professor Nelson joined the Faculty of Law in 2000. She served as the Associate Dean (Research) from 2009-2011. In 2012-13, Professor Nelson served as Senior Legal Counsel to the Honourable Catherine Fraser, Chief Justice of Alberta. Her research interests include: the interface of health care law and ethics, women's health, issues in reproductive health, and feminist legal theory. She has published articles and book chapters on a number of health law related topics, such as consent, the regulation of health care practitioners, intervention in pregnancy, pediatric genetics and the tort law duties of pregnant women. Her recent book, Law, Policy and Reproductive Autonomy (Hart, 2013), explores theoretical and practical issues in reproductive decision-making.
Research
- Health Law
- Health Care Ethics
- Health Policy
- Women's Health Law and Policy
- Reproductive Health Law and Policy
- Tort Law
Courses
LAW 430A - Torts
The law of negligence, damages, intentional interferences with persons, property and chattels, the law of strict liability, occupiers' liability, nuisance, defamation, the economic torts, the future of tort law.
LAW 430B - Torts
The law of negligence, damages, intentional interferences with persons, property and chattels, the law of strict liability, occupiers' liability, nuisance, defamation, the economic torts, the future of tort law.
LAW 530 - Health Care Ethics and the Law
In this course, students will develop an understanding of health law and health care ethics, and of the relationship - and tensions - between law and ethics in the health care context. Topics covered will include allocation of health care resources, physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, organ donation, assisted reproductive technologies, medical tourism and research involving human subjects.
LAW 531 - Law and Medicine
Selected topics in law and medicine, which may include patient safety, medical malpractice claims, consent and informed consent, confidentiality of medical records, wrongful life and wrongful pregnancy claims, mental health law, health inequities, and end-of-life decision making.