Maneesha Deckha is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Her research interests include health law and bioethics, critical animal studies and animal law, feminist analysis of law, law and culture and law society. Her work has been published widely in international legal and interdisciplinary venues. She has also contributed to several anthologies relating to feminism, cultural pluralism, and health law and policy. Professor Deckha is the recipient of grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Canada-US Fulbright Program. She has delivered over sixty papers in Canada and abroad and has served as referee for leading law reviews and socio-legal and feminist journals in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. She has also held the Fulbright Visiting Chair in Law and Society at New York University.