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This page lists all full-time faculty members in the Department of Law and Legal Studies and their respective areas of expertise for undergraduate and graduate supervisions. All supervisions should be with full-time faculty, including Emeritus and Adjunct Professors<\/strong>. Contract Instructors are not available for supervisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note that faculty on leave or sabbatical are not available to take on new supervisions during their leave period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

UNDERGRADUATE SUPERVISIONS

<\/strong>All faculty members may supervise Tutorials and the Honours paper in Law. LAWS 4901 and LAWS 4902 are half-credit courses (0.5) and the Honours Paper LAWS 4908 is a full credit course (1.0).


GRADUATE SUPERVISIONS

<\/strong>All tenure-track and tenured professors (assistant professors, associate professors, and full professors) may supervise MA Theses and Masters Research Essays (MRE). Assistant professors who are not yet tenured can co-supervise PhD Theses. Teaching Stream professors cannot supervise PhD Theses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact details are available via faculty members’ profile pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name<\/th>Research Areas<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Melanie Adrian <\/strong>
Associate Professor
(on leave- not taking supervisions)<\/em><\/td>		Religion (Islams, Judaisms & Christianities); Religious Freedom in Canada & Internationally; Religious Rights; Theories of Rights; Human Rights; Pluralism; Liberalism; Multiculturalism (North America & Europe); Social Theory<\/td><\/tr>
Betina Appel Kuzmarov<\/strong>
Associate Professor<\/td>		International Law; International Legal Theory; Cultural Property<\/td><\/tr>
Rueben Balasubramaniam<\/strong>
Associate Professor
(on sabbatical- not taking supervisions)<\/em><\/td>		Legal philosophy in general; Issues of Methodology in Legal Philosophy; Moral Conception of the Rule of Law; Democracy; Constitutional Design for Deeply Divided States<\/td><\/tr>
Zeina Bou-Zeid<\/strong>
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream<\/td>		Immigration and Refugee Law; Citizenship and Multiculturalism Theory; Human Rights; Constitutional Law; Employment Law<\/td><\/tr>
Doris Buss<\/strong>
Professor<\/td>		Transnational Legal Dimensions of Women\u2019s 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\u2019l Criminal Trials and Transitional Justice in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia; Int\u2019l Legal Regulation and Post-colonialism; Law and Sexuality<\/td><\/tr>
Lynn Campbell
<\/strong>Professor Emeritus<\/td>		Business Law; Corporations; Director’s Duties
e-commerce; Labour and Arbitration<\/td><\/tr>
Michael Christensen
<\/strong>Associate Professor<\/td>		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<\/td><\/tr>
Pierre Cloutier de Repentigny<\/strong>
Lecturer<\/td>		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<\/td><\/tr>
Jane Dickson<\/strong>
Professor<\/td>		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<\/td><\/tr>
Stacy Douglas<\/strong>
Associate Professor
(on sabbatical- not taking supervisions)<\/em><\/td>		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<\/td><\/tr>
Megan Gaucher<\/strong>
Associate Professor<\/td>		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<\/td><\/tr>
Sheryl Hamilton<\/strong>
Professor<\/td>		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<\/td><\/tr>
Mahmud Hasan<\/strong>
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream<\/td>		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<\/td><\/tr>
William H\u00e9bert
<\/strong>Associate Professor<\/td>		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<\/td><\/tr>
Atiya Husain<\/strong>
Associate Professor
(on leave- not taking supervisions)<\/em><\/td>		Race and knowledge; Terrorism and political violence; Islam in the United States; Black radicalism<\/td><\/tr>
Nadine Ijaz<\/strong>
Associate Professor<\/td>		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<\/td><\/tr>
Philip Kaisary<\/strong>
Professor<\/td>		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<\/td><\/tr>
Vincent Kazmierski<\/strong>
Associate Professor<\/td>		Law and Democracy; Disability, Law and Society; Unwritten constitutional principles and constitutional interpretation; Theories of Judicial Review; Law and Legal Studies Pedagogy<\/td><\/tr>
Ummni Khan<\/strong>
Associate Professor<\/td>		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<\/td><\/tr>
Gulay Kilicaslan<\/strong>
Assistant Professor<\/td>		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<\/td><\/tr>
Evelyn Maeder<\/strong>
Professor
(on sabbatical- not taking supervisions)<\/em><\/td>		Law and Psychology; Jury Decision-Making; Quantitative Research Methods; Mental Health Law; Moral Psychology and Punishment; Extralegal Factors (Race, Gender) in Legal Decision-Making<\/td><\/tr>
Sebastien Malette<\/strong>
Associate Professor<\/td>		Law and Indigeneity; Governmentality Studies; Contemporary Legal and Political Theory; Decolonization; Environmental Laws and Indigenous Worldviews; Indigenous Legal Traditions Metis Studies<\/td><\/tr>
Dawn Moore<\/strong>
Professor
(on leave- not taking supervisions)<\/em><\/td>		Socio-Legal Theory; Domestic Violence; Laws of Evidence; Visual Evidence; Law and Subjectivity; Prisoner\u2019s Rights; Imprisonment; Drug Policy; Morality, Regulation, Risk; Women and the Law; Feminist Legal Theory; Gender Issues; Science and the Law; State Mandated Therapy<\/td><\/tr>
Hollis Moore<\/strong>
Assistant Professor<\/td>		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<\/td><\/tr>
Zoran Oklopcic<\/strong>
Associate Professor<\/td>		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<\/td><\/tr>
Umut \u00d6zsu<\/strong>
Professor<\/td>		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<\/td><\/tr>
Ksenia Polonskaya<\/strong>
Associate Professor
(on leave- not taking supervisions)<\/em>
<\/td>		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<\/td><\/tr>
Sean Richmond<\/strong>
Associate Professor<\/td>		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<\/td><\/tr>
George Rigakos<\/strong>
Professor<\/td>		Political Theory; Police Science (Public, Private and Quasi-public); Policing; Security and Anti-security; Marxian Political Economy; Cooperative Production, Mutualist, Anarcho-syndicalism; Critical Criminology<\/td><\/tr>
Alberto Salazar<\/strong>
Associate Professor<\/td>		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<\/td><\/tr>
Dale Spencer<\/strong>
Professor<\/td>		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<\/td><\/tr>
Steve Tasson<\/strong>
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
(on sabbatical, not taking supervisions)<\/em><\/td>		Classical and contemporary social theory
\u2018Imagination\u2019 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<\/td><\/tr>
Christiane Wilke<\/strong>
Professor
(on sabbatical, not taking supervisions)<\/em><\/td>		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<\/td><\/tr>
Barry Wright<\/strong>
Professor Emeritus<\/td>		History of criminal law and its administration, especially 19th century reforms in Canada and throughout the British Empire; Political trials and national security measures<\/td><\/tr>
Ania Zbyszewska<\/strong>
Associate Professor
(on sabbatical, not taking supervisions)<\/em><\/td>		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;
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