Schulich School of Law

Faye Woodman

Schulich School of Law

Email: faye.woodman@dal.ca
Mailing Address:

Room L114C, Weldon Law Building, 6061 University Avenue
PO Box 15000 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2

Research Topics:

Professor Woodman has taught a wide range of upper-law courses, with primary emphasis on tax courses and the law of trusts.

Areas of supervision: Taxation, Succession, Property, Trusts, Estate Planning, Tax Policy, Elder Law

Professor Woodman's research interests include Tax Policy, Women and the Economy, Elder Law, Social Assistance and Succession Law.

Professor Woodman has a written on a wide array of subjects including the impact of the tax system on women.

Mark Gillen et al, The Law of Trusts: A Contextual Approach, 1st, 2nd, 3rd ed (Toronto: Edmond Montgomery, 2000, 2008, 2015).
Faye Woodman, "The Taxation of Aquaculture in Canada: A Comparison with the Taxation of Agriculture and Its Policy Implications" in David Vanderzaag & Gloria Chao, eds, Aquaculture Law and Policy: Towards Principled Access and Operations (London: Routledge, 2006).
Faye Woodman, "The Taxation of Trusts" in Gillen and Woodman, eds, The Law of Trusts: A Contextual Approach (Toronto: Edmond Montgomery, 2000).
Faye Woodman, "Women, The Law and the Economy: Reflections from the Income Tax System" (1998) 47 UNBLJ 311.
Faye Woodman, "Financial Obligations of Parents to Adult Disabled Children: Inter Vivos" (1998) EPTJ 131.

Chair of the Dalhousie Pension Advisory Committee for the Dalhousie Pension Plan
2003 Member of the Advisory Group to the Law Commission of Nova Scotia on the Reform of the Nova Scotia Wills Act