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"Contributors" [2010] ELECD 665; in McGregor-Lowndes, Myles; O’Halloran, Kerry (eds), "Modernising Charity Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010)

Book Title: Modernising Charity Law

Editor(s): McGregor-Lowndes, Myles; O’Halloran, Kerry

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849802505

Section Title: Contributors

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contributors
Dr Oonagh B. Breen is a Senior Lecturer at University College Dublin
School of Law, and currently a visiting Research Fellow at the Hauser
Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University. Dr Breen spe-
cialises in the area of comparative charity law regulation and policy.

Lindsay Driscoll has spent over 30 years in the field of charity law and
governance in a number of different roles including a term as a Charity
Commissioner. She is currently a consultant with the firm of Bates, Wells
and Braithwaite, Solicitors, in London.
Dr Jonathan Garton is a Reader in Law in the Charity Law Unit at the
University of Liverpool. He is the author of The Regulation of Organised
Civil Society (Hart, 2009) and the charities volume of Halsbury's Laws of
England (Lexis, 2010).
Dr Michael Gousmett is an independent researcher in the charity sector in
New Zealand. He was formerly General Manager of the Pacific Leprosy
Foundation (1989­2007), and adviser to charities on governance, strategic
planning, accounting, taxation and legal issues.
Laird Hunter, QC is a partner in the Richards Hunter law firm in
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Since 1975, his practice has concentrated
on matters for nonprofits and charities. He was intervenor counsel at the
Canadian Supreme Court in Vancouver Society of Immigrant and Visible
Minority Women v Minister of National Revenue (1998) and the Amateur
Youth Soccer Association case (2007). Mr Hunter has had a long-standing
involvement in public policy matters related to charities of various sorts.
He ...