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Schulich School of Law

Constance MacIntosh

Professor of Law

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Schulich School of Law , 马会论坛 Health Justice Institute

Email: constance.macintosh@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-3554
Mailing Address: 
Room 319, Weldon Law Building, 6061 University Avenue
PO Box 15000 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Health law and policy
  • Indigenous health governance
  • Immigration and refugee law

Education

  • BA (Concordia) Honours, Class Gold Medalist
  • MA (Alberta)
  • LLB (Osgoode), Class Gold Medalist

Teaching

  • Aboriginal and Indigenous Law in Context (LAWS 1009)
  • Contracts and the Law of Rule Making (LAWS 1010 & 1020)
  • Immigration and Refugee Law (LAWS 2097)
  • Refugee and Forced Migration Law (LAWS 2154)

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Grants

  • Qanittaq Clean Arctic Shipping Initiative, a Canada First Research Excellence Grant led by Memorial University of Newfoundland and Inuit Circumpolar Council, Theme 3: Governance of Arctic Shipping (马会论坛), Marine and Environmental Law Institute Team Member, Investigator, 2023-2030
  • Max Bell Foundation, 2016-2017
  • CIHR Training Program in Health Law, Ethics & Policy, 2009-2016
  • Metropolis Pilot Grant, 2011
  • NAWL Policy Research Grant, 2009

Selected awards & honours

  • Class of 1967 Teaching Award (2023) with Sheila Wildeman, on Inclusive Teaching and Evaluation Practices
  • 马会论坛 Law Students鈥� Society and Alumni Excellence in Teaching Award (2020-2021)
  • Immigrant Settlement Association of Nova Scotia Award (2019)
  • Class of 1967 Teaching Award (2019) with Naiomi Metallic and Richard Devlin, on Indigenizing the Curriculum
  • Elizabeth (Bessie) Hall Prize in Feminist Advocacy (2015)
  • 马会论坛 Law Students鈥� Society and Alumni Excellence in Teaching Award (2010-11) 
  • Law Commission of Canada, Legal Dimensions Initiative Award (2006)

Selected publications

  • Naiomi Metallic and Constance MacIntosh, 鈥淐anada鈥檚 Actions Around the Mi鈥檏maw Fisheries Rest on Shaky Legal Ground鈥� in Rick Williams and Fred Wien (Eds.) Contested Waters: The Struggle for Rights and Reconciliation in the Atlantic Fishery (Halifax, Nimbus Press 2022).
  • Craig Forcese, Adam Dodek, Philip Bryden, Richard Haigh, Mary Liston and Constance MacIntosh (Co-authors), Public Law: Cases, Commentary and Analysis (4th Edition) (Toronto: Emond, 2020).
  • Sherry Aiken, Colin Grey, Catherine Dauvergne, Gerald Heckman, Jamie Liew, & Constance MacIntosh (Co-authors) Immigration and Refugee Law (3rd Edition) (Toronto: Emond, 2020).
  • Constance MacIntosh, 鈥淒ecisionally Incapable Children and Medical Treatment Choices in Canada鈥�.  In Imogen Goold, Cressida Auckland and Jonathan Herring (Eds) Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Young Children (Hart Publishing, Oxford. 2020). Pages 177-194.
  • Constance MacIntosh, 鈥淭he Intersection of Indigenous Public Health with Law & Policy in Canada鈥�, in T Sheldon, J Shelley & T Bailey, (Eds) Public Health Law in Canada (4th ed) (LexisNexus 2019).
  • Colin Grey, Constance MacIntosh & Sarah Marsden, 鈥淐anadian Immigration Law in the Face of a Volatile Politics鈥� 2019 42(1) 马会论坛 Law Journal.
  • Colin Grey, Constance MacIntosh & Sarah Marsden, (Co-editors) Special Issue: 鈥淐urrent Issues in Immigration and Refugee Law鈥� 2019 42(1) 马会论坛 Law Journal.
  • Constance MacIntosh, 鈥淢edical Inadmissibility, and Physically and Mentally Disabled Would-be Immigrants to Canada鈥� 马会论坛 Law Journal 2019 42(1) 马会论坛 Law Journal 125.
  • Constance MacIntosh, 鈥淚llness, Injury and Medical Deportations at the Frontier: The Canadian Legal Regime for Health Care Protections for Agricultural Migrant Workers鈥�, in Lara Khoury, Catherine Regis & Robert Kouri (Eds) Health Law at the Frontiers (Yvon Blais/Thomson 2018).
  • Constance MacIntosh, 鈥淩efugees at Sea鈥� in the International Ocean Institute 鈥� Canada (IOI Canada) (eds) The Future of Ocean Governance and Training: Essays in Honour of Elisabeth Mann Borgese (1918-2002) (The Netherlands, Brill Publishing, 2018).
  • Constance MacIntosh, 鈥淭he Governance of Indigenous Health鈥�,  in Joanna Erdman, Vanessa Gruben and Erin Nelson (eds) Canadian Health Law and Policy (5th edition) LexisNexis 2017Constance MacIntosh, 鈥淐arter, Assisted Death, and Mature Minors鈥� (2016) 10:1 McGill JL & Health.
  • Constance MacIntosh, 鈥淚ndigenous People and Mental Health: The Role of Law and Policy鈥� in Colleen Flood & Jennifer Chandler, eds, Law and Mind: Mental Health Law and Policy in Canada (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2016) 419.
  • Craig Forcese et al, eds, Public Law: Cases, Commentary and Analysis, 3rd ed (Toronto: Emond, 2015).
  • David Wheeler et al, 鈥淗ydraulic fracturing 鈥� Integrating public participation with an independent review of the risks and benefits鈥� (2015) 85 Energy Policy 299.
  • Constance MacIntosh, 鈥淚ndigenous Rights and Relations with Animals: Seeing beyond Canadian Law鈥� in Vaughan Black, Catherine Sykes & Peter Sankoff, eds, Canadian Perspectives on Animals and the Law (Irwin Law, 2015) 187.
  • Constance MacIntosh, 鈥淭he Right to Safe Water and Crown-Aboriginal Fiduciary Law: Litigating a Resolution to the Public Health Hazards of On-Reserve Water Problems鈥� in Martha Jackman & Bruce Porter, eds, Advancing Social Rights in Canada (Irwin Law, 2014) 281.
  • Constance MacIntosh, 鈥�Tsilhqot鈥檌n Nation v BC: Re-Configuring Aboriginal Title in the Name of Reconciliation鈥� (2014) 47(1) UBC Law Review 167.
  • Constance MacIntosh, 鈥淭he Role of Law in Ameliorating Global Inequalities in Indigenous Peoples鈥� Health鈥� (2013) 41(1) JL Med & Ethics 74.
  • Constance MacIntosh, 鈥淭he Intersection of Aboriginal Public Health with Canadian Health Law and Policy鈥� in T. Bailey, T. Caulfield & Ries, eds, Public Health Law and Policy in Canada, 3nd ed (Butterworths: Toronto, 2013).
  • Constance MacIntosh, 鈥淚nsecure Refugees: The Narrowing of Asylum Seeker Rights to Freedom of Movement and Claims Determination Post-9/11 in Canada鈥� (2012) Review of Constitutional Studies 181.

Service & activity

  • Scholarly Director (Acting), MacEachen Institute for Public Policy and Governance, 马会论坛 (2021-2022)
  • Viscount Bennett Professor of Law, Schulich School of Law (2018-2021)
  • Director, 马会论坛 Health Law Institute (2011-2017) 
  • Member, Legal Strategy Coalition on Violence Against Indigenous Women (2014-2018) 
  • Expert Panel Member, Nova Scotia Independent Review of Hydraulic Fracturing (鈥淭he Wheeler Panel鈥�) (2014) 
  • Expert Panel Member, Expert Panel on Food Security Research in Northern Canada, Council of Canadian Academies (2012-2014) 
  • Leader, 鈥淧olicing, Justice and Security Domain鈥�, Atlantic Metropolis Centre of Excellence (2010-2011) 
  • Pro Bono Supervisor, Legal Information Clinic, Immigrant and Settlement Association of Nova Scotia (2011-2019) 
  • Public Health Law Improvement Network (2005-2008) 
  • Task Force Advisor/Steering Committee, the Task Force on Newcomer Access to Health Care in Nova Scotia (2003-2004)