Bartha Knoppers
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Bartha Maria Knoppers (born May 26, 1951) is a Canadian lawyer and an expert on the ethical aspects of genetics, genomics and biotechnology.
Born in Hilversum, Netherlands, she received a Bachelor of Arts from McMaster University, a Diploma of Legal Studies from Cambridge University, a master's degree in comparative literature from the University of Alberta in 1972, a law degree from McGill University in 1981, and a Doctorate of Laws from the University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne in 1985.
She has been the Canada Research Chair in Law and Medicine at the Université de Montréal since 2001. She is also a counsel at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP.
In 2002, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2001, she received a honorary Doctor of Law from University of Waterloo. She is the chairman of the International Ethics Committee of the Human Genome Project. In 2002, she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
