Sheila Wildeman

Experience

• 2004–present
  Associate professor, Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law

Education

• 2012 
  University of Toronto, LLM
• 1993 
  Columbia University, MA

Publications

• 2020
  "Disabling Solitary: An Anti-Carceral Critique of Canada's Solitary Confinement Litigation" , in The Legacies of Institutionalisation: Disability, Law and Policy in the ‘Deinstitutionalised’ Community, Claire Spivakovsky, Linda Steele and Penelope Weller, eds (Oxford: Hart, forthcoming 2020).
• 2019
  “Freedom: A Work in Progress” (with Rusi Stanev), ” in Eilionoir Flynn et al, eds, Global Perspectives on Legal Capacity Reform (Oxford: Routledge, 2019)
• 2018
  "Making Sense of Reasonableness", in Colleen Flood & Lorne Sossin, eds, Administrative Law in Context (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2018)
• 2018
  “The road to Dunsmuir or, on re-reading administrative law’s bumpy kinky chain novel in the fading light of ‘a culture of justification’” , (2018) Canadian Journal of Administrative Law and Practice (Special Issue: “A Decade of Dunsmuir,” Paul Daly & Leonid Sirota, eds) 69
• 2016
  “Agonizing Identity in Mental Health Law and Policy (Part II): A Political Taxonomy of Psychiatric Subjectification", (2016) 39:1 Dalhousie Law Journal 147
• 2016
  “Consent to psychiatric treatment: From insight (into illness) to incite (a riot)” , in Colleen Flood & Jennifer Chandler, eds, Law and Mind: Mental Health Law and Policy in Canada (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2016)
• 2015
  "Agonizing Identity in Mental Health Law and Policy: Part 1", (2015) 38:2 Dalhousie Law Journal 619
• 2013
  “Substitute consent practices in the face of uncertainty: a survey of Canadian researchers in aging” (with Gina Bravo, Marie-France Dubois, Scott YH Kim, Carole Cohen, Janice Graham and Karen Painter), 25:11 (2013) International Psychogeriatrics 1821
• 2013
  “Surrogate Consent for Dementia Research: Factors Influencing Five Stakeholder Groups from the SCORES Study” (with Gina Bravo, , Scott Y.H. Kim, Marie-France Dubois, Carole A. Cohen and Janice E. Graham) , (2013) 35:4 IRB: Ethics in Human Research 1-11
• 2013
  “Protecting Rights and Building Capacities: Challenges to Global Mental Health Policy in Light of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities” , (2013) 41:1 Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 48
• 2012
  “Understanding ‘Elder Abuse and Neglect’: A Critique of Assumptions Underpinning Responses to the Mistreatment and Neglect of Older People” (with Joan Harbison, Stephen Coughlan, Marie Beaulieu, Jeff Karabanow, Madine Vanderplaat and Ezra Wexler), 24:2 Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect (2012) 88-103
• 2011
  “Insight Revisited: Relationality and Psychiatric Treatment Decision-Making Capacity”, in J. Downie & J. Llewellyn, eds Being Relational: Reflections on Relational Theory and Health Law (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011) 255-286
• 2011
  “Are Canadians Providing Advance Directives about Health Care and Research Participation in the Event of Decisional Incapacity?” (with Gina Bravo, Marie-France Dubois, Carole Cohen, Janice Graham, Karen Painter, Suzanne Bellemare), (2011) 56(4) Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 209-218
• 2010
  “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

Grants and Contracts

• 2019
  Partnership Engage Grant

  Role:

  P.I.

  Funding Source:

  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada