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Michael Hadskis

University Teaching Fellow


Email: michael.hadskis@dal.ca
Phone: (902) 494-2534
Fax: (902) 494-6849
Mailing Address: 
Room 328, Weldon Law Building
6061 University Avenue
PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2 Canada
 
Research Topics:
  • Health law and policy
  • Tort law

Education

  • BSc (Hons), pilipiliĀž»­
  • LLB, pilipiliĀž»­
  • LLM, Osgoode Hall, York University

Biography

Michael Hadskis is a faculty member of theĀ Schulich School of Law, School of Health Administration, and . Michael teaches courses in the areas of health law and tort law. His research is both interdisciplinary and collaborative and deals with contemporary health law and policy issues.

Teaching

  • Tort Law and Damage Compensation ()
  • Advanced Negligence: Medical Malpractice ()
  • Indigenous Blacks & Miā€™kmaq Initiative Pre-law Course
  • Healthcare Law ()
  • Advanced Healthcare Law (HESA 6362) Not offered Winter 2025

Selected awards and honours

  • Appointed, University Teaching Fellow, 2019
  • 2023 and 2018 Recipient, Hanna and Harold Barnett Award for Excellence in Teaching First Year Law (Schulich School of Law)Ā  ā€“Ā  Nominee in 2020
  • 2017 Recipient, Faculty of Health Teaching Excellence Award (Faculty-wide Award)
  • 2014 Recipient, Law Student Society and Alumni Association Award for Teaching Excellence (Schulich School of Law)Ā  ā€“Ā  Nominee in 2020, 2011 and 2008
  • 2007 Recipient, Dalhousie Health Sciences Research Ethics Board Distinguished Service Award
  • 2018 and 2014 Nominee, Dalhousie Alumni Association Award of Excellence for Teaching (University-wide Teaching Award)

Grants

  • 2017-18: "Developing Vaccine Product Monograph Language that Supports Evidence-based Use of Vaccines in Maternal Immunization Programs" -Ā  $157,791 Public Health Agency of Canada, Co-investigator
  • 2011-17: "Rehabilitative and Diagnostic Innovation in Applied Neuro Technologies (RADIANT)ā€ -Ā  $1,650,000 Natural Sciences Engineering Research Council, Collaborator
  • 2004-10: "Neuroimaging Ethics: From Theory to Practice" -Ā  $1,484,868 Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Co-investigater

Current service and activity

  • Chair, Admissions Committee, Schulich School of Law
  • Member, Research Ethics Appeal Board, pilipiliĀž»­
  • Member, Admissions & Curriculum Committee, School of Health Administration

Selected publications

  • ā€œDeveloping Product Label Information to Support Evidence Informed Use of Vaccines in Pregnancy" (2019) 37:48 Vaccine 7138-7146 (with Manca TA, Graham JE, et al.).

  • Dental Law in Canada, Third Edition (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2019) (with Leah Hutt and Mary McNally).

  • "A Critique of Canadian Jurisprudence on the Theraputic Privilege Exception to Informed Consent" (2018) 12:1 McGill Journal of Law and Health 1-28.

  • "Incidental Findings and the Minimal Risk Standard in Pediatric Neuroimaging Researchā€ (2015) 37(5) IRB: Ethics & Human Research 11-19 (with Matthias Schmidt, Jocelyn Downie, and Jennifer Marshall).

  • "Informed consent comes to Britain" (2015) 44(3). The Advocates' Quarterly 403-410 (with Vaughan Black).

  • "In Defense of Consent and Capacity Boards for End-of-Life Care" (2014) 61(10) Canadian Journal of Anesthesia 899-904 (with Jocelyn Downie).

  • "Pediatric Magnetic Resonance Research and the Minimal Risk Standardā€ (2011) 33(5)Ā IRB: Ethics & Human ResearchĀ 1-6 (with Matthias Schmidt, Jennifer Marshall, and Jocelyn Downie).