Lorna A. Turnbull is an activist mother of three, and a professor and former Dean in the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba. Her research is focused on the work of care, its importance to carers and those who depend on the care, and how legal frameworks support or fail these important relationships through the lens of Canada’s constitutional guarantees and international obligations. She is the author of Double Jeopardy: Motherwork and the Law (2001).