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). He is also the co-president of the International Academy of Medical Ethics and Public Health(IAMEPH), which he co-founded in 2016. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, as well as co-editor of the Ethics, Medicine, and Public Health journal and of Springer's International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. He also sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Ethics in Mental Health.

Over the course of his career, he received numerous honours and awards. He has been made a Officier of the Légion d'honneur in France, a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion in the Netherlands, and Grande Ufficiale in Italy.

David Weisstub is also a poetry enthusiast and has published two poetry books. His first book, Heaven Take my Hand, published in 1968, was anthologized in various books and translated. In 2016, he published his second poetry book, The Four Corners.

He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2025.