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:6061 University Avenue
PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2 Canada
- Health law and policy
- Tort law
Education
- BSc (Hons), ϳԹ
- LLB, ϳԹ
- LLM, Osgoode Hall, York University
Biography
Michael Hadskis is a faculty member of the 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 & Mi’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) – 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) – Nominee in 2020, 2011 and 2008
- 2007 Recipient, ϳԹHealth Sciences Research Ethics Board Distinguished Service Award
- 2018 and 2014 Nominee, ϳԹAlumni 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" - $157,791 Public Health Agency of Canada, Co-investigator
- 2011-17: "Rehabilitative and Diagnostic Innovation in Applied Neuro Technologies (RADIANT)” - $1,650,000 Natural Sciences Engineering Research Council, Collaborator
- 2004-10: "Neuroimaging Ethics: From Theory to Practice" - $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, ϳԹ
- Member, Admissions & Curriculum Committee, School of Health Administration
Selected publications
- “Developing 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 Research” (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 Standard” (2011) 33(5) IRB: Ethics & Human Research 1-6 (with Matthias Schmidt, Jennifer Marshall, and Jocelyn Downie).