Emmanuelle Bernheim is a full professor in the Civil Law Section of the Faculty of Law and holds the Canada Research Chair in Mental Health and Access to Justice. Her research focuses on the role of law and justice in the production and reproduction of social, gender and racial inequalities. She has conducted several ethnographic fieldworks in courts dealing with social and mental health matters. Her current research, conducted in partnership with various civil society groups, documents the use of psychiatric, administrative, and judicial coercion.

Professor Dave Holmes holds the University Research Chair in Forensic Nursing. After completing his BSc (Ottawa, 1991), MSc (Montreal, 1998) and PhD (Montreal, 2002) in nursing, he completed a CIHR post-doctoral fellowship in health care, technology and place at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Social Work (2003). To date, Professor Holmes has received funding from CIHR and SSHRC to be a principal investigator for research on risk management in the fields of public health, psychiatric nursing, and forensic nursing. Most of his work, comments, essays, analyses, and research are based on the poststructuralist works of Deleuze, Guattari, and Michel Foucault.