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Constance MacIntosh

Professor of Law

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Connect with me


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)

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 (黄色直播), 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
  • 黄色直播 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)
  • 黄色直播 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) 黄色直播 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) 黄色直播 Law Journal.
  • Constance MacIntosh, 鈥淢edical Inadmissibility, and Physically and Mentally Disabled Would-be Immigrants to Canada鈥 黄色直播 Law Journal 2019 42(1) 黄色直播 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, 黄色直播 (2021-2022)
  • Viscount Bennett Professor of Law, Schulich School of Law (2018-2021)
  • Director, 黄色直播 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)