Sheila Wildeman

Sheila Wildeman (LL.B (Dalhousie), M.A. (Columbia), LL.M. (Toronto)) is an Associate Professor at Dalhousie University’s Schulich School of Law where she teaches administrative law and jurisprudence.  She is a member of the Health Law Institute and a Founding Fellow of the MacEachen Institute for Public Policy and Governance. Sheila’s research in disability law has focused on medico-legal constructions of consent and capacity, with attention to international and domestic human rights as a source of entitlement to supports for the exercise of agency and choice. Her current research asks how law can promote deinstitutionalization and decarceration in ways that bridge the disability justice and prison justice movements. This work approaches freedom as a function of equal access to the social determinants of health and community living.