David Weisstub

David Norman Weisstub (born 1944) is the Philippe Pinel professor of legal psychiatry and biomedical ethics at the Université de Montréal.

He is the founder and honorary life president of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health(IALMH).

[1] He is also the co-president of the International Academy of Medical Ethics and Public Health(IAMEPH), which he co-founded in 2016.

[3] He was awarded honorary doctorates by the Sigmund Freud University (2015) and by the Law Society of Upper Canada (2016).

He has been made a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in France, a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion in the Netherlands, and Grande Ufficiale in Italy.