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Menu Labelling Article

May 8, 2012: A special food law issue of the popular publication, LawNow, features an article by Nola Ries on menu labelling laws. Read the article here and visit LawNow to access the full table of contents for the food law issue.

New Article on Policies to Promote Healthy Behaviour

March 30, 2012: In a newly published article, Nola Ries examines the use of incentives and disincentives as policy tools to promote healthier nutrition and physical activity.  The  full article (40 pages) is available to download from the McGill Journal of Law and Health: http://mjlh.mcgill.ca/volumes.php 

'Designer Animals' Book now available

Designer Animals: Mapping the Issues in Animal Biotechnology is a new book that examines debates about animal biotechnology. Nola Ries contributed a chapter discussing the use of transgenic technologies in human health care. View more details about the book here.

New article in Healthcare Policy

Nola Ries has published a discussion and debate article in the February 2012 issue of Healthcare Policy.  Read about Financial Incentives for Weight Loss and Healthy Behaviours here.

European Association of Health Law Conference 2011

Nola Ries presented a paper at the 2011 European Association of Health Law Conference, which took place in Leuven, Belgium in October. Ries's paper, End of Life Decision Making: Recent Legal Developments in Canada, discussed the current state of Canadian law in two areas relevant to end-of-life decision-making: withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment; and physician-assisted suicide. The conference provided an opportunity to share experiences from the Canadian context and discuss similarities and differences with European law.

In-depth analysis of obesity & the law in Canada

Nola Ries and colleague Barbara von Tigerstrom of the University of Saskatchewan have published a detailed analysis of laws to promote healthy eating and physical activity. The paper, Legal Interventions to Address Obesity: Assessing the State of the Law in Canada, appears in the University of British Columbia Law Review, volume 43:2, 2011.

Book on legal and social issues in nutritional genomics

Nola is co-editor of a book on that addresses legal, ethical and social issues in the field of nutritional genomics. For more information, see: www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/717116/description#description