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Faculty Profiles and access challenges in health; and legal foundations for a national disease control and surveillance agency in Canada. Professor Gibson presented at a public health law conference co-sponsored by the Centres for Disease Control and the American Society of Law, Medicine and
issues relating to alternative dispute resolution. In June 2005, Professor Ginn traveled to Vietnam as part of a CIDA funded project, and in October, project participants from Vietnam and the Philippines came to Dalhousie Law School for a conflict management workshop
Girard brought his historical interests to a wider audience through his participation in the CBC TV special on Joseph Howe, aired in connection with the bicentenary of Howe’s birth in 2004.
Ethics in Atlanta, Georgia on the subject of “Post - SARS: Principles for Design of a Public Health Information System”. Other presentations included the topics of Provincial Public Health and Emergency Powers; Legal Issues in Public Health Surveillance; Legal Dimensions of Electronic Health Records; and the Role of Law in the Construction of Citizenship and Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities. Professor Gibson taught Advanced Negligence: Medical Malpractice as well as Health Care Ethics and Law, supervised a number of graduate students, and was Acting Director of the Health Law Institute for 2004-05. In that capacity she shepherded renovations to a suite of offices on the first floor of the Law School, now known as the ‘Health Law Institute Annex’.
organized by Professor Ginn. In August 2005, she co-presented a paper at Cambridge University, addressing the role of religious reasoning in the context of legislators and judges. In 2005, she continued as the Law School representative on the Nova Scotia Law Reform Commission. In March, 2005, Professor Ginn received the Harold and Hannah Barnet Teaching Award, and in May, she received the class ring from the graduating class.
Compass for Issue-Mapping in Neuroimaging” that appeared in The American Journal of Bioethics and has completed another article (with Jocelyn Downie and several others), “Legal and Ethical Issues of MRI Research Involving Children: An Issue Scoping Overview”, which has been submitted for publication. Michael also served as Chair of the Abstracts Committee for the Canadian Bioethics Society 17th Annual Conference and Meeting.
In 2005, Diana Ginn continued as Associate Dean Academic, and taught Property Law.
Philip Girard will continue as Associate Dean Graduate Studies and Research until June 2006, when Richard Devlin will take over the post. Aside from the appearance of his book Bora Laskin: Bringing Law to Life, published in November 2005 and noticed elsewhere in this issue, Professor Girard continued to be very active in the legal history field. He contributed a chapter to a forthcoming volume on
Michael Hadskis continued to teach Health Law, act as the faculty supervisor for the Health Law Placement course, oversee and deliver teaching in the Faculty of Medicine at the M.D. and post-graduate levels, and oversee the health law curriculum in the Faculties of Dentistry and Health Professions. Professor Hadskis also took on the competition administrator role for the 2005 Trilateral Moot Court Competition. Professor Hadskis remained actively involved in the research ethics community. In October 2005, he was invited by the Center for Biology & Society, Arizona State University, to speak on the subject of whether research participant representatives should be granted standing before Institutional Review Boards. (His decision to accept this invitation was not influenced by the fact that Arizona is home to over 50 spectacular golf courses.) He also delivered a talk entitled, “… And Procedural Justice for All: REBs
Professor Ginn’s writing in 2005 focused on A Legal Guide for Canadian Churches (a book co-written with Professor David Blaikie and to be published by Novalis Press); on “Religious Discourse in the Public Square”, also co-written with David Blaikie and to be published in Constitutional Forum; and on
Canada in the new Oxford History of the British Empire, entitled “British Justice, English Law and Canadian Legal Culture,” and his articles on Richard Chapman Weldon, Sir Charles Townshend (CJNS 1907-15), and James Wilberforce Longley appeared in vol. XV of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Professor
and Administrative Law”, at the 2005 Canadian Association of Research Ethics Boards Annual Conference in Toronto. Michael served on several boards and working groups including the IWK Health Centre Research Ethics Board, the Dalhousie Health Sciences Research Ethics Board, the Nova Scotia Research
He has had an extensive round of conference and other special lectures, usually on Criminal Law or Mental Disability Law and their intersection, speaking in Calgary, Moncton, and Halifax and in other Dalhousie Departments, including Nursing and Social Work. He has had several active public advocacy responsibilities
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Ethics Oversight Steering Group, and the IWK Privacy and Research Working Group. He pursued his research interests in the areas of regulating biomedical research and neuroimaging. He co-wrote an article with Jocelyn Downie entitled “Finding the Right
Archibald Kaiser Professor H. Archibald (Archie) Kaiser has had a busy year. After finishing his term as Chair of the Senate Academic Appeals Committee, he has continued his other Dalhousie duties, teaching Criminal Law (the Deferred Course, for IB&M Initiative and other students), Criminal Procedure and Mental Disability Law in the Law School and also Legal Issues in Psychiatry in the Residency Training Program in the Department of Psychiatry.