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Dr. Shaw received his PhD from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (2024), Master of Laws from Dalhousie University (2016), and Juris Doctor and Bachelor of Science (Honours) from the University of Manitoba (2015/2012).
As a legal scholar, Shaw studies the legal classification of the human body and bodily materials, and norms around their use and disposal. His critical and theoretical study of law and medicine, and law and the dead, have relevance to legal decision-making and public policy, including the application of private law to biomaterials, and the regulation of anatomy and dissection, organ and tissue donation and transplantation, and biotechnologies.
Shaw is joining the College of Law from the United Kingdom, where he is currently a Lecturer in Law (equivalent to Assistant Professor) at the University of Kent, in Canterbury, England (2023-2025). There he has taught medical law, property law and tort law. Previously, in Canada, he was appointed as a Schulich Fellow (Assistant Professor-Limited Term) at Dalhousie University (2022-2023), where he taught jurisprudence and tort law.
He is a lawyer who is qualified in Ontario, having articled at the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC/O). After his call to the bar, he continued to work at the IPC/O within their health policy department on legislative and public policy matters.