Matthew Herder
Professor of Law and Medicine; Director, Dalhousie Health Justice Institute
Email: matthew.herder@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-2567
Mailing Address:
PO Box 15000 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2
- Health law and policy
- Law and technology
- Health care policy
- Health care regulation
- Health law
- Intellectual property
- Law and society
Education
- BSc (Hons) (Memorial)
- LLB (Dalhousie)
- LLM (Dalhousie)
- JSM (Stanford)
Bar admissions
Ontario, 2004
Teaching
Professor Herder teaches primarily in the Faculty of Medicine, across the undergraduate and postgraduate curriculums, on a variety of health law topics, including informed consent, patient-physician confidentiality, and regulation of the medical profession. Prior to arriving at Dalhousie, he taught in the areas of bioethics and intellectual property law at Loyola University Chicago’s School of Law.
- LAWS 2319 (and PHAC 6319): Pharmaceutical Science, Law and Policy
Areas of supervision:
Intellectual property law and policy, especially patents; research commercialization; regulation of pharmaceuticals, biologics, and medical devices; biotechnology
Research interests
Professor Herder’s research interests cluster around biomedical innovation policy, with particular focus on intellectual property law and practices connected to the commercialization of scientific research. As part of a three-year research project funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Professor Herder (Principal Investigator) and a team of interdisciplinary researchers are currently collecting empirical evidence about the inter-relationships between commercialization laws, policies, and practices and emerging health researchers. The team will use the collected empirical evidence to explore a series of normative questions about the ongoing commercialization of academic science.
