Dr. Margaret Isabel Hall, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD is a Professor and BC Notaries Chair in Applied Legal Studies in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. Margaret's research interests include law and aging, mental capacity and undue influence, legal responses to vulnerability, and systemic theories of liability in tort law. Margaret's research integrates doctrinal analysis with qualitative research methodologies. Prior to joining SFU Margaret was an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Thompson Rivers University (as a founding member of that faculty) and an Assistant Professor in the UBC Faculty of Law. Margaret has also worked in law reform and was the first Director of the Canadian Centre of Elder Law Studies.