Schulich School of Law
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA | CANADA B3H 4R2 | +1 (902) 494-3495

Sheila Wildeman

B.A. (Toronto), 1991; M.A. (Columbia University) 1993; L.L.B. (Dalhousie) 1999; LLM (Toronto) 2011.

Assistant Professor

Telephone: 902 494-1022
E-mail: sheila.wildeman@dal.ca

Biography:

Assistant Professor of Law, Dalhousie University (2004 to present). Research Associate, Health Law Institute (2001), Articled student, Eberts Symes Street & Corbett (1999-2000).

Publications:

  • Sheila Wildeman, Gina Bravo, Marie-France Dubois, Carole Cohen, Janice Graham, Karen Painter, Suzanne Bellemare "Substitute Decision-Making about Research: Identifying the Legally Authorized Representative in Four Canadian Provinces" McGill Journal of Law and Health (forthcoming, 2012).

  • Joan Harbison, Stephen Coughlan, Marie Beaulieu, Jeff Karabanow, Madine Vanderplaat, Sheila Wildeman, Ezra Wexler, "Understanding "Elder Abuse and Neglect": A Critique of Assumptions Underpinning Responses to the Mistreatment and Neglect of Older People" 24:2 Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect (forthcoming, 2012).

  • Sheila Wildeman, "Introduction to the Lectures of Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin and Nova Scotia Provincial Court Judge Anne Derrick: Law and mental health: A relationship in crisis?" (2010) 33 Dalhousie Law Journal 1.

  • Sheila Wildeman, "Insight Revisited: Relationality and Psychiatric Treatment Decision-Making Capacity" in J. Downie & J. Llewellyn, eds., Relational Theory and Health Policy, (UBC Press, 2011).

  • Gina Bravo, Marie-France Dubois, Carole Cohen, Sheila Wildeman, Janice Graham, Karen Painter, Suzanne Bellemare "Are Canadians Providing Advance Directives about Health Care and Research Participation in the Event of Decisional Incapacity?" (2011) 56(4) Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 209.

  • Marie-France Dubois, Gina Bravo, Janice Graham, Sheila Wildeman, Carole Cohen, Karen Painter, Suzanne Bellemare, "Comfort with proxy consent to research involving decisionally-impaired older adults: do type of proxy and risk-benefit profile matter?" (2011) 23 International Psychogeriatrics 1479.

  • Gina Bravo, Marie-France Dubois, Sheila Wildeman, Janice Graham, Carole Cohen, Karen Painter, Suzanne Bellemare, "Research with Decisionally Incapacitated Older Adults: Practices of Canadian Research Ethics Boards" (2010) 32:6 IRB: Ethics and Human Research 1.

  • Sheila Wildeman, “A Fine Romance? The Modern Standards of Review in Theory and Practice” in C. Flood & L. Sossin, eds., Administrative Law in Context (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2008).

  • Sheila Wildeman, “The Supreme Court of Canada at the Limits of Decisional Capacity” in J. Downie & E. Gibson, eds., Health Law at the Supreme Court of Canada (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2007)

  • Sheila Wildeman, “Access to Treatment of Serious Mental Illness: Enabling Treatment or Enabling Choice?” in C. Flood, ed., Just Medicare: What's In, What's Out, How We Decide (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006)
  • Gina Bravo, Michaël Gagnon, Sheila Wildeman, David T. Marshall, Mariane Pâquet, and Marie-France Dubois, “Comparison of Provincial/Territorial Legislation Governing Substitute Consent to Research” (2005) 24:3 Canadian Journal on Aging 237.
  • Sheila Wildeman & Jocelyn Downie, “Genetic and Metabolic Testing of Newborns: Must Health Care Providers Seek Explicit Parental Consent?“ (2001) 9 Health Law Journal 61

  • Sheila Wildeman & Jocelyn Downie, “Screening of Newborns for Genetic and Metabolic Disorders: The Issue of Parental Choice” (2001) 2:3 ISUMA: Canadian Journal of Policy Research 56 [condensed version of the article noted above].

  • Beth Symes & Sheila Wildeman, “Taking the Tribunal to Court: Practical Tips”, in Taking the Tribunal to Court: A Practical Guide for Administrative Law Practitioners, Canadian Bar Association (Ontario) Continuing Legal Education conference materials (October 20, 2000).

  • Vaughan Black & Sheila Wildeman, “Parsing the Supreme Court’s New Pronouncements on Vicarious Liability for Sexual Battery” (1999) 44 Canadian Cases on the Law of Torts (2d) 126.

  • Sheila Wildeman, “Vicarious Liability for Sexual Assault: Two New Tests for Scope of Employment in B.(P.A.) v. Curry and T.(G.) v. Griffiths” (1998) 7 Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies 1

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