HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA | CANADA B3H 4R2 | +1 (902) 494-3495
Constance MacIntosh
B.A. (Concordia) Honours, Class Gold Medalist, 1992; M.A. (University of Alberta) 1996; L.L.B. (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University) Class Gold Medalist, 1999.
Associate Professor
Telephone: (902) 494-3554
E-mail: constance.macintosh@dal.ca
Associate Professor Constance MacIntosh has been a faculty member with the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, since 2002. Prior to joining the law school, from 2000-2002 she was an Associate Lawyer at Mandell Pinder, a boutique firm which specializes in First Nation rights and resource management. From 1999 to 2000 she articled at Faskens after receiving her LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School where she was the Class Gold Medalist in 1999. Professor MacIntosh's current research focuses upon the impact of provincial/federal jurisdictional divisions on First Nation reserve water Quality.
Publications and commissioned reports:
- Constance MacIntosh, “Indigenous Self-Determination and Research on Human Genetic Material: A Consideration of the Relevance of Debates on Patents and Informed Consent, and the Political Demands on Researchers” (2006) Health Law Journal (in press)
- Constance MacIntosh, “Assessing Human Trafficking in Canada: Flawed Strategies and the Rhetoric of Human Rights” (2006) St Thomas Human Intercultural Human Rights Law Review (in press)
- Constance MacIntosh, "Jurisdictional Roulette: Constitutional and Structural Barriers to Aboriginal Access to Health" in C. Flood, ed., Just Medicare (Toronto: U of Toronto Press, 2006)
- Constance MacIntosh, “When Feminist Beliefs Became Credible as Political Opinion: Returning to a Key Moment in Canadian Refugee Law” (2005) Can. J. Women and the Law (in press)
- Constance MacIntosh, "Law, Policy and the Populations Health of Aboriginal Canadians", in T. Bailey, T. Caulfield and Ries, eds., Public Health Law and Policy in Canada (Butterworths: Toronto, 2005)
- Constance MacIntosh, “Aboriginal Rights Litigation: Peeling an Orange and Finding an Apple – Book Review of Joseph Magnet and Dwight Dorey eds., Aboriginal Rights Litigation (Markham: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2003)” (2005) Alberta Law Review 481.
- Constance MacIntosh, Shifting Connections: A Report on Emerging Federal Policy Relating to Women's Health, the New Genetics and Biotechnology (Toronto: Centre of Excellence for Women's Health at York University, 1999).
- Constance MacIntosh, "Conceiving Fetal Abuse" (1998) 15 Can. J. Fam. L. 178.
- David Young, Grant Ingram & Constance MacIntosh, "The Dilemma Posed by Minority Medical Traditions in Pluralist Societies: The Case of China and Canada" (1995) 18(3) J. of Ethnic & Racial Studies 75.
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