Melanie Adrian
Associate Professor |
- Religion (Islams, Judaisms & Christianities)
- Religious Freedom in Canada & Internationally
- Religious Rights
- Theories of Rights
- Human Rights
- Pluralism
- Liberalism
- Multiculturalism (North America & Europe)
- Social Theory
|
Betina Appel Kuzmarov
Associate Professor |
- International Law
- International Legal Theory
- Cultural Property
|
Ratna Rueban Balasubramanian
Associate Professor |
- Legal Philosophy in general, Issues of Methodology in Legal Philosophy, Moral Conception of the Rule of Law
- Rule of Law, Democracy, Constitutional Design for Deeply Divided States
|
Zeina Bou-Zeid
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream |
- Immigration and Refugee Law
- Citizenship and Multiculturalism Theory
- Human Rights
- Constitutional Law
- Employment Law
|
Doris E. Buss
Professor |
- Transnational Legal Dimensions of Women’s Rights and Violence Against Women
- Gender, Conflict and Post-conflict State building
- Gender Equality, Advocacy and Measurement in Global Contexts
- Gender and Artisanal Mining, particularly in Conflict affected Africa
- Int’l Criminal Trials and Transitional Justice in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia
- Int’l Legal Regulation and Post-colonialism
- Law and Sexuality
|
Lynn Campbell
Professor Emeritus |
- Business Law
- Corporations
- Director’s Duties
- e-commerce
- Labour and Arbitration
|
Michael Christensen
Associate Professor
(on sabbatical- not taking any new supervisions) |
- Law, Democracy and Digital Culture
- Privacy, Data Justice and Social Inequality
- Science and Technology Studies
- Social and Political Theory
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Computational Social Science and Digital Research Methods
- History of Human Rights and Western Humanitarianism
- History of the Social Sciences
|
Pierre Cloutier de Repentigny
Assistant Professor |
- Ocean and Coastal Law
- Biodiversity Protection
- Green theory
- Political ecology
- International legal theory
- Access to justice for trans people
- Queer theory
- Critical Legal Theory
- Administrative law
- Legal History
- Discourse Analysis
|
Brettel Dawson
Associate Professor
(on sabbatical- not taking any new supervisions) |
- Feminism and Law
- Equality and Human Rights
- Judicial decision-making
- Judicial Education
- Private Law
|
Jane Dickson
Professor |
- Aboriginal People and Criminal Justice
- Sentencing and Gladue
- Community Justice (sentencing circles, healing circles, etc.)
- Restorative Justice Theory and Practice
- Restorative Justice and family violence
- Aboriginal People and Cross-Border Issues
- Specific Claims
- Role of civil litigation I compensation for loss of culture
|
Stacy Douglas
Associate Professor |
- Constitutional Law and Theory
- Contemporary Legal and Political Theory
- Post-colonial Legal Theory
- Sovereignty and Nationalism
- Feminist and Critical Race Theory
- Theories of Democracy
- Law and Aesthetics
|
Violet Ford
Assistant Professor |
- Inuit legal orders and theoretical approaches
- Inuit laws and legitimacy within legal pluralism and it’s application in arctic marine governance
|
Megan Gaucher
Associate Professor |
- Immigration and Refugee Law
- Temporary Foreign Workers
- Critical Citizenship Theory
- Family Law and Politics
- Law and Identity
- Gender, Race, Sexuality and Other Axes of Difference in Relation to the Law
|
Sheryl Hamilton
Professor |
- Cultural Studies of Law
- Senses and the Law (specifically touch)
- Legal Personhood and Subjectivity
- Intellectual Property
- Law and Emotions
- Regulation of the Body and Biopolitics
- Governance Theory
|
Mohammad Hasan
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream |
- Environmental Justice Theory
- Third World Approaches to International Law [TWAIL]
- Toxic Colonialism
- Indigeneity
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Labour Rights and Industrial Relations in the global South
|
William Hébert
Associate Professor |
- Criminal Justice Reforms
- Criminalization of Marginalized Populations
- Imprisonment
- Access to Justice
- Governance
- Gender, Sexuality, Race, Disability, and Other Axes of Difference in Relation to the Law
- Critical Criminology
- Legal and Medical Anthropology
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Ethnography
- Community-Based Research and Engaged Scholarship
- Contemporary Social and Political Theory
|
Atiya Husain
Associate Professor
(on leave- not taking any new supervisions) |
- Race and knowledge
- Terrorism and political violence
- Islam in the United States
- Black radicalism
|
Nadine Ijaz
Assistant Professor |
- Health professional regulation
- Medical pluralism and the state
- Traditional, complementary and integrative medicine
- Epistemic hybridity and cultural misappropriation
- Evidentiary debates in medicine
- Risk discourse in the policy sphere
- Postcolonial eco-feminism(s)
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
|
Philip Kaisary
Associate Professor |
- Black diasporic legal and social theory from the Haitian Revolution to Black Marxism
- Critical theory
- Law and literature, law and film
- Law, culture, and the humanities
- Postcolonial studies
- Sociology of law and culture
- Law, race, and class
|
|
Vincent Kazmierski
Associate Professor
(on sabbatical- not taking any new supervisions) |
- Law and Democracy
- Disability, Law and Society
- Unwritten constitutional principles and constitutional interpretation
- Theories of Judicial Review
- Law and Legal Studies Pedagogy
|
|
Ummni Khan
Associate Professor |
- Sex, Race, Gender, Disability and other axes of difference in Relation to the Law
- Law In Popular Culture and the Media
- Law and Literature
- Critical Legal Theories
- Deviance and the Law
- Surveillance Studies
- Feminist Legal Theory
|
|
Gulay Kilicaslan
Assistant Professor |
- Critical forced migration studies
- Refugee law and politics of citizenship and resettlement
- Nation-state and border violence
- Resistance and social movements in the Global South (particularly in the Middle East)
- Digital activism and culture
|
Evelyn Maeder
Professor |
- Law and Psychology
- Jury Decision-Making
- Quantitative Research Methods
- Mental Health Law
- Moral Psychology and Punishment
- Extralegal Factors (Race, Gender) in Legal Decision-Making
|
Sebastien Malette
Associate Professor |
- Law and Indigeneity
- Governmentality Studies
- Contemporary Legal and Political Theory
- Decolonization
- Environmental Laws and Indigenous Worldviews
- Indigenous Legal Traditions Metis Studies
|
Jean-Michel Marcoux
Assistant Professor
(on leave- not taking any new supervisions) |
- International trade law
- International investment law
- International arbitration
- business and human rights (interdisciplinary perspective)
|
Dawn Moore
Professor |
- Socio-Legal Theory
- Domestic Violence
- Laws of Evidence
- Visual Evidence
- Law and Subjectivity
- Prisoner’s Rights
- Imprisonment
- Drug Policy
- Morality, Regulation, Risk
- Women and the Law
- Feminist Legal Theory
- Gender Issues
- Science and the Law
- State Mandated Therapy
|
Hollis Moore
Assistant Professor |
- Criminal Law and Marginalization
- Ethnographic and Feminist Research Methods
- Incarceration and Critical Carceral Studies
- Gender, Family Relations, and Household Reproduction
- Police Violence in the Americas
- Brazil and Latin America
|
Zoran Oklopcic
Associate Professor (on leave- not taking any new supervisions) |
- Constitutional Theory (popular sovereignty, constituent power of the people)
- International Law (self-determination of peoples)
- Normative Theories of Secession
- Theories of Multinationalism Federalism
- Political Theories of Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt
- Democratic Theory
|
Umut Özsu
Professor |
- Public international law
- History and theory of international law
- International human rights law
- Law and development
- Marx and Marxism
- Critical legal theory
- Issues of decolonization, humanitarian intervention, and state-building
|
Ksenia Polonskaya
Assistant Professor |
- International economic law (especially digital trade)
- International public law (particularly the projects on legal authority and gender in international law)
- Private law theory
- Legal pluralism
- Transnational extractive industries
- Artificial Intelligence and the future of work agenda
|
Sean Richmond
Associate Professor
(on sabbatical- not taking any new supervisions) |
- Public International Law
- International Relations
- Use of Military Force
- International Criminal Law
- Crime of Aggression
- International Organizations
- International Law of Armed Conflict
- Canadian, British and Australian Foreign Policy
- Afghanistan Conflict
- Korean War
- Treatment of Prisoners
- Humanitarian Intervention
|
George S. Rigakos
Professor |
- Political Theory
- Police Science; Public, Private and Quasi-public
- Policing
- Security and Anti-security
- Marxian Political Economy
- Cooperative Production; Mutualist; Anarcho-syndicalism
- Critical Criminology
|
Alberto Salazar
Associate Professor |
- Consumer Protection Law (with a particular interest in food choices and public health)
- Intersections of International Investment Law and Local Consumer Protection Policies
- Competition Law and Policy
- Corporate Law and Governance
- Comparative Corporate Governance
- Corporate Social Responsibility in Rich and Poor Countries
- Socio-economics of Business Law
|
Dale Spencer
Professor |
- Contemporary Social and Political Theory
- Criminalization of Marginalized Populations, with a focus on youth and homeless people
- Violence
- Victimization
- Embodiment
- Men and Masculinities
- Qualitative Methods
- Criminal Law
- Policing
- Biopolitics
|
Steve Tasson
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream |
- Classical and contemporary social theory
- ‘Imagination’ in law, legal methods, and Fuller’s jurisprudence
- Constitutional law and frameworks of citizenship
- Criminal law, wrongful convictions and criminal justice reform
- Legal consciousness and popular legal education
- Large-group pedagogy
|
Christiane Wilke
Associate Professor |
- International law, armed conflict & technologies
- Law, visuality, and knowledge
- Critical histories of international law
- Decolonizing international law and human rights
- Transitional justice and international criminal law
- Law, memory, and the politics of reconciliation
|
J. Barry Wright
Professor Emeritus |
- History of criminal law and its administration, especially 19th century reforms in Canada and throughout the British Empire
- Political trials and national security measures
|
Ania Zbyszewska
Associate Professor |
- Employment and Labour Law and Policy
- Labour Market Regulation
- Gender and Work
- Political Economy of Work and Labour Markets
- Time and Temporalities
- Feminist theories of Law
- Feminist Political Economy
- Care and Social Reproduction
- Labour/Environmental Sustainability Nexus
- Feminist Political Ecology and Ecofeminism
- Law and Politics
- EU Law and Governance
- Post-Socialist Transitions
- Neoliberalism
|