Stephen Coughlan is a professor of law at Dalhousie University in Halifax. His areas of teaching have included criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, health law, and appellate advocacy. Professor Coughlan is an editor of the Criminal Reports and an author of the National Judicial Institute Criminal Law e-Letter. He is one of the authors of the Carswell Annual Review of Criminal Law and of Learning Canadian Criminal Law (10th ed.). In addition, he is a member of the Law and Technology Institute at Dalhousie Law School.