New Faculty Spotlight

Over the past two academic years, the Department of Law and Legal Studies has welcomed nine new faculty members. Our new instructors and professors teach and conduct research in areas of social justice, environment, marginalization, and criminal law to highlight a few. While we transition back to campus, you can learn more about our new faculty members that you will be seeing around campus. See their introductions, below:

Professor Danika Littlechild

Professor Atiya Husain

Professor Mohammad Hasan

Professor Pierre Cloutier de Repentigny

Professor Nadine Ijaz

Professor Jean-Michel Marcoux

Professor Ksenia Polonskaya

Professor Hollis Moore

Professor William Hébert

See all of our Department Faculty members

Review course outlines for Fall/Winter 2021-2022

Danika Littlechild

Assistant Professor – Environment, Social Justice and Indigenous Relations

“Danika Billie Littlechild is Cree from Ermineskin Cree Nation, Neyaskweyahk, Maskwacis (Alberta) in Treaty No. 6 territory. Prior to joining the Department of Law and Legal Studies in January of 2020, Danika practiced law in Canada for almost two decades, advising Indigenous Peoples across Canada and internationally. Within Canada, Danika has served First Nations in the areas of…”

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Atiya Husain

Assistant Professor – Race, Racialization and Social Justice

“Drawing on the fields of sociology, legal studies, cultural studies, and Black studies, my research program is guided by a fundamental interest in how “race” constitutes a material reality; is an organizing principle in European colonial structures of thought; and is a contested idiom that is claimed and deployed in multiple and often contradictory ways…”

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Mohammad Hasan

Instructor I – Law and Legal Studies

“Professor Hasan joined the Department of Law and Legal Studies of Carleton University as an Instructor-I in July 2020. He has a Ph.D. in Law from Osgoode Hall Law School (2020), an MA in Legal Studies from Carleton University (2013), and LL.B with honours and LL.M from the University of Dhaka Law Faculty (2005). Before moving to Canada, Professor Hasan taught undergrad and graduate courses in two Bangladeshi Law Schools….”

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Pierre Cloutier de Repentigny

Assistant Professor – Environment, Law and Social Justice

“I am a non-binary queer disabled lecturer (tenure-track) in the Department of Law and Legal Studies. I am currently finishing my PhD at the Centre for Environmental Law and Global Sustainability at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa where I was a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar and a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholar…”

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Nadine Ijaz

Assistant Professor – Regulating Health

“Dr. Nadine Ijaz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies. As an interdisciplinary, mixed-methods scholar, her work critically interrogates the epistemic, socio-cultural, economic and evidentiary complexities associated with governing medical pluralism. Dr. Ijaz’s anticolonial research program centralizes traditional / Indigenous medical knowledges and the delivery of culturally-responsive…”

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Jean-Michel Marcoux

Assistant Professor – Regulation, Business and Economic Power

“Jean-Michel Marcoux is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. He holds a PhD in Law (University of Victoria), an MA in International Studies (Institut québécois des hautes études internationales, Université Laval) and a BA in Public Affairs and International Relations (Université Laval). He previously taught in the Graduate School of International Studies and the Faculty of Law at Université Laval. Before joining…”

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Ksenia Polonskaya

Assistant Professor – Law, Property and Private Power

“Dr. Ksenia Polonskaya is looking to supervise students in the areas of commercial arbitration, investment arbitration, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) law. She is particularly interested in the projects that examine the intersection of international economic law with human rights and climate change…”

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Hollis Moore

Assistant Professor – Criminal Law and Marginalization

“Dr. Hollis Moore researches the sociality of uneven carceral expansion, with a focus on the experiences, relationships, and understandings of people targeted by the criminal law. She is a Sociocultural Anthropologist by training and has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in and around prisons in Northeast Brazil. By amplifying marginalized perspectives and centering the Global South…”

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William Hébert

Assistant Professor – Law and Criminalization

“Trained as a social-cultural anthropologist, I am an interdisciplinary researcher with interests in critical criminology, prison studies, gender and sexuality studies, and legal and medical anthropology. My research attends to the conditions of and limits to ‘inclusion’, broadly defined, with a focus on ‘vulnerable’ populations and their everyday experiences, demands for social change,…”

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