Sheila Wildeman (LLM Toronto) (MA Columbia) (LLB Dalhousie) is an Associate Professor at the Schulich School of Law. She is a member and former Associate Director of the Dalhousie Health Law Institute and a Vice-Chair of East Coast Prison Justice Society. Through her work with the Health Law Institute, Sheila has contributed to law and policy analysis for Nova Scotia’s Department of Health and Wellness for close to 15 years. More generally, she has engaged in research, writing, policy analysis, and community-based advocacy in support of disability rights and (more recently) prison justice. She was part of the Bill 59 Community Coalition, which won a 2017 Nova Scotia Human Rights Award for advocacy relating to provincial accessibility legislation. From 2016-2018, she worked on a project centred in Ireland, which brought together advocates, academics, and policymakers from around the world to co-create knowledge and critiques of disability-based guardianship and institutionalization.
