Michael Da Silva, University of Ottawa

Research

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human rights socio-economic rights law philosophy law and philosophy public policy health health care

Latest papers

Cracking the code: a scoping review to unite disciplines in tackling legal issues in health artificial intelligence.
BMJ health & care informatics · 2025
The Epistemic Case for Federalism: A Framework and Critical Analysis
Publius The Journal of Federalism · 2025 · first author
Subsidiarity, States, and Intermediate Groups: Maintaining Subsidiarity's Distinct Contribution to Moral Philosophy
Journal of Social Philosophy · 2025 · first author

All 102 publications

Latest funding

Optimizing Medical Device Regulation of Artificial Intelligence
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$355,724

All 1 grants and awards

102 publications.

01

Cracking the code: a scoping review to unite disciplines in tackling legal issues in health artificial intelligence.

Nunnelley S, Flood CM, Da Silva M, Horsley T, Kanathasan S, Thomas B, Da Silva EA, Ly V, Daniel RC, Sheikh Hassani M, Singh D

BMJ health & care informatics20254 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1136/bmjhci-2024-101112 PMID: 40216451

02

The Epistemic Case for Federalism: A Framework and Critical Analysis

Michael Da Silva

Publius The Journal of Federalism20252 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1093/publius/pjaf057

03

Subsidiarity, States, and Intermediate Groups: Maintaining Subsidiarity's Distinct Contribution to Moral Philosophy

Michael Da Silva

Journal of Social Philosophy2025First authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1111/josp.70002

04

Association Between Exposure to Smartphones and Tablets and Motor Development in Early Childhood: A Systematic Review

Rinelly Pazinato Dutra, Yasmin Marques Castro, Veridiana Moran, Vicente Gabriel Wink Mattos, Paulo Victor Moura Rodrigues, Eliane Denise Araújo Bacil, Michael Da Silva

Child Care Health and Development2025Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1111/cch.70180 PMID: 41239815

05

Subsidiarity as a Normative Political Concept: Contemporary and Historical Reflections

Michael Da Silva, Daniel Weinstock

Journal of Social Philosophy2025First authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1111/josp.70013

06

Itamar Mann, lifeboats and climate politics: An introduction

Michael Da Silva, David Andrew Owen

Global Constitutionalism2025First authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1017/s2045381725100105

07

Responsibility Gaps

Michael Da Silva

Philosophy Compass20249 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1111/phc3.70002

08

A(nother) democratic case for federalism

Michael Da Silva

European Journal of Political Theory20246 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1177/14748851241240324

09

A Millian Case against Epistemic Arguments for Federalism

Michael Da Silva

Utilitas20243 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1017/s095382082400013x

10

Good Governance Strategies for Human-Centered AI in Healthcare

Michael Da Silva, Jean‐Louis Denis, Catherine Régis

20242 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1201/9781003320791-13

Optimizing Medical Device Regulation of Artificial Intelligence

Co-investigatorCIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Flood, Colleen M

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Comparative Law; Health Law And Policy; Machine Learning Medical Devices; Medical Device Regulation

$355,724

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

Frequent collaborators

Queen's Law
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Department of Philosophy
Department of Paediatrics
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
Centre de recherche en droit public
Gestion, évaluation et politiques de santé
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Colleen Flood

Queen's Law

5 shared papers, latest 2025

Devin Singh

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

4 shared papers, latest 2025

Katherine Boydell

Department of Psychiatry

4 shared papers, latest 2019

Tanya Horsley

Family Medicine

3 shared papers, latest 2025

Daniel Weinstock

Department of Philosophy

3 shared papers, latest 2025

Rayfel Schneider

Department of Paediatrics

2 shared papers, latest 2012

Matthew Herder

Noveltechethics

1 shared papers, latest 2022

Jean-Louis Denis

Gestion, évaluation et politiques de santé

1 shared papers, latest 2024

Anna Goldenberg

Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology

1 shared papers, latest 2022

Taniya Nagpal

Academic Programs

1 shared papers, latest 2020

Catherine Régis

Centre de recherche en droit public

1 shared papers, latest 2024

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