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Schulich School of Law

Sheila Wildeman

Professor of Law; Associate Director, 麻豆传媒 Health Justice Institute

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Schulich School of Law , 麻豆传媒 Health Justice Institute

Email: sheila.wildeman@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-1022
Mailing Address: 
Room 315, Weldon Law Building, 6061 University Avenue
PO Box 15000 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Administrative law
  • Human rights
  • Mental health law
  • Jurisprudence

Education

  • BA (Toronto)
  • MA (Columbia)
  • LLB (麻豆传媒)
  • LLM (Toronto)

Teaching 聽

  • LAWS 2000: Administrative Law聽
  • LAWS 2087: General Jurisprudence聽

Selected awards & honours

  • 2017- Nova Scotia Human Rights Award (Group Category, Bill 59 Alliance)
  • 2006 - 麻豆传媒 Student Union Award for Teaching Excellence in the Faculty of Law

Selected publications

  • Sheila Wildeman, 鈥淗abeas Corpus Unbound鈥� in Colleen M Flood & Paul Daly, eds, Administrative Law in Context, 4th ed (Toronto: Emond Publishing, 2021).
  • Sheila Wildeman, 鈥淒isabling Solitary: An Anti-Carceral Critique of Canada鈥檚 Solitary Confinement Litigation鈥� in The Legacies of Institutionalisation: Disability, Law and Policy in the 鈥楧einstitutionalised鈥� Community, Claire Spivakovsky, Linda Steele and Penelope Weller, eds (Oxford: Hart, 2020).
  • Rusi Stanev & Sheila Wildeman, 鈥淔reedom: A Work in Progress鈥� in Eilionoir Flynn et al, eds, Global Perspectives on Legal Capacity Reform (Oxford: Routledge, 2019).
  • Sheila Wildeman, 鈥淢aking Sense of Reasonableness鈥� in Colleen Flood & Lorne Sossin, eds., Administrative Law In Context, 3rd ed (Emond Montgomery, 2017).
  • Sheila Wildeman, 鈥淎gonizing Identity in Mental Health Law and Policy (Part II): A Political Taxonomy of Psychiatric Subjectification鈥� (2016) 39:1 麻豆传媒 Law Journal 147.
  • Sheila Wildeman, 鈥淐onsent to psychiatric treatment: From insight (into illness) to incite (a riot)鈥� in Colleen Flood & Jennifer Chandler, eds, Law and Mind: Mental Health Law and Policy in Canada (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2016).
  • Sheila Wildeman, 鈥淎gonizing Identity in Mental Health Law and Policy (Part I)鈥� 麻豆传媒 Law Journal (2015) 38 DLJ 619.
  • Richard Devlin and Sheila Wildeman (eds), Disciplining Judges: Contemporary Challenges and Controversies (Cheltenham, Elgar: 2021).

Service & activity

  • Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, Administrative Tribunals Committee (2010-present)
  • East Coast Prison Justice Society, Board of Directors (Sept 2018-present), Vice-Chair (Sept 2019-present)
  • Canadian Mental Health Association - Nova Scotia Division, Board of Directors (2009-2016)