Dr. Stacy Douglas
Assistant Professor, Law and Legal Studies
Stacy’s interest in law and legal studies is fuelled by broad questions about theories of democracy, the role of the state, the relationship between government and governed, and processes of decolonization. These concerns have pushed her to think critically about the role of constitutions, and their imagined relationship to political community. More specifically, Stacy researches and teaches around the concept of sovereignty (especially its limits) and our encounters of it in law, theory, and aesthetics. In so doing, she draws on legal and political theory, as well as queer and feminist scholarship to prod at the hegemony of liberal capitalism and its fetishization of the neutral rights-bearing subject.
In her two years at Carleton, Stacy has worked with students on projects that think critically about liberalism, rights, and the rule of law in the contexts of social reproduction, sovereignty, security certificates, labour law, gay and trans social movements, reconciliation, and constitutionalism. These diverse areas represent a broad array of approaches to addressing the adverse affects of settler colonialism and of western juridical thinking more broadly.
More information about Stacy can be found here: http://www.carleton.ca/law/people/douglas-stacy/
Courses taught with Aboriginal content
LAWS 2502: Law, State, and Citizen
LAWS 4100: Modern Legal Theory
LAWS 5000: Theories of Law and Social Transformation
Syllabi for these courses can be found here
Student research (supervisory/committee)
Honours Projects
Feyza Celik (current) “Educational Reform for First Nations’ Education”
Leila Edwards (current) “Liberalism and Racism”
Geneva Grzybowski (current) “Indigenous Constitutions”
Ph.D.
Carolyn Laude (current) “Confronting the Political and Socio-Legal Impacts of Cumulative Resource Development on Aboriginal and Treaty Rights”
Relevant publications
Edited Collections
Douglas, Stacy and Suzanne Lenon (Eds.). 2014. Law and Decolonization [Special Issue]. Canadian Journal of Law and Society. Vol. 29, Issue 2.
Douglas, Stacy, Suhraiya Jivraj, and Sarah Lamble (Eds.). 2011. Liabilities of Queer Anti-Racist Critique [Special Issue]. Feminist Legal Studies. Vol. 19, Issue 2.
Book Reviews
Douglas, Stacy. 2012. “Contesting the Cartography of Sovereignty: Mark Rifkin’s Erotics of Sovereignty”. Theory & Event. Vol. 15, Issue 3.
Scholarly Commentary
——–. 2011. “Beyond Barbarism: David Kato, Uganda and the American Right”. Truthout. 17 February. http://www.truth-out.org/beyond-barbarism-david-kato-uganda-and-american-right67737.
——–. 2011. “Race, Civility, and a Good Cup of Tea: Considering ‘the Political’ in the London Riots”. Canadian Dimension. 25 October. http://canadiandimension.com/articles/4247/.