{"id":25421,"date":"2021-02-11T15:19:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T20:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?page_id=25421"},"modified":"2025-07-14T10:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T14:30:13","slug":"faculty-research-areas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/research\/faculty-research-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Research Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n        \n        \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-cu-black-50 pt-10 pb-12\" style=\"\">\n\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-cu-black-800 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Faculty Research Areas\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"faculty-research-areas\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Faculty Research Areas<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Our teaching staff possess a number of research area strengths, including but not limited to the below major categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on specific faculty members, click on the below faculty names, or view one of the following directory pages: <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/faculty-supervision-areas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Faculty Supervision Areas<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/faculty-staff\/department-faculty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department Faculty<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/faculty-staff\/adjunct-professors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adjunct Researchers<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/emeritus-professors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emeritus Professors<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also peruse details about our faculty&nbsp;recipients of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/category\/research-grants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">research grants<\/a>&nbsp;and their impressive and important projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"subject-areas\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Subject Areas<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Topic<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>Scope<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>Citizenship, Human Rights and Political Economy<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Research in this area brings together faculty strengths around hierarchies of economic and political power, both between and within states.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/melanie-adrian\/\">M. Adrian<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/buss-doris-e\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">D. Buss<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/dickson-jane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">J. Dickson<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/douglas-stacy-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">S. Douglas<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/gaucher-megan\/\">M. Gaucher<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/kaisary-philip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">P. Kaisary<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/kazmierski-vincent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">V. Kazmierski<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/moore-dawn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">D. Moore<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/ozsu-umut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U. Ozsu<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/rigakos-george-s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">G. Rigakos<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/wilke-christiane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">C. Wilke<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/wright-j-barry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">B. Wright<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>Crime, Governance and Security<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">This field addresses crime from local, national and international perspectives. Research in this area looks at crime as a social phenomena linked to questions of morality, identity, gender, political economy, history and culture. We take on the problem of security from the neighbourhood to the globe.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/balasubramaniam-ratna-rueban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">R. Balasubramaniam<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/buss-doris-e\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">D. Buss<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/dickson-jane\/\">J. Dickson<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/gaucher-megan\/\">M. Gaucher<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/william-hebert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">W. H\u00e9bert<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/khan-ummni\/\">U. Khan<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/maeder-evelyn\/\">E. Maeder<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/moore-dawn\/\">D. Moore<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/rigakos-george-s\/\">G. Rigakos<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/spencer-dale\/\">D. Spencer<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/wright-j-barry\/\">B. Wright<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>Gender, Sexuality and Identity<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">This field captures longstanding faculty expertise and research and incorporates social justices issues around race, disability, and sexual identity.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/melanie-adrian\/\">M. Adrian<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/buss-doris-e\/\">D. Buss<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/douglas-stacy-2\/\">S. Douglas<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/gaucher-megan\/\">M. Gaucher<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/hamilton-sheryl\/\">S. Hamilton<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/william-hebert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">W. H\u00e9bert<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/kazmierski-vincent\/\">V. Kazmierski<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/khan-ummni\/\">U. Khan<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/maeder-evelyn\/\">E. Maeder<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/moore-dawn\/\">D. Moore<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/ksenia-polonskaya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">K. Polonskaya<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>Globalization, International Law and Transnational Justice<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">This field explores the limits and relevance of international law in the emerging networks of global interdependence of peoples and states.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/melanie-adrian\/\">M. Adrian<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/balasubramaniam-ratna-rueban\/\">R. Balasubramaniam<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/buss-doris-e\/\">D. Buss<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/douglas-stacy-2\/\">S. Douglas<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/appel-kuzmarov-betina\/\">B. Kuzmarov<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/oklopcic-zoran\/\">Z. Oklopcic<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/ozsu-umut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U. Ozsu<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/ksenia-polonskaya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">K. Polonskaya<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/rigakos-george-s\/\">G. Rigakos<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/wilke-christiane\/\">C. Wilke<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>Law, History, Culture and Humanities<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">This interdisciplinary field interrogates the various ways in which law is mediated by culture, by history, by language, or by religion. At the same time, the ways in which law regulates social, cultural, religious, literary, or linguistic practices within society are also examined.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/melanie-adrian\/\">M. Adrian<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/dickson-jane\/\">J. Dickson<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/douglas-stacy-2\/\">S. Douglas<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/hamilton-sheryl\/\">S. Hamilton<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/william-hebert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">W. H\u00e9bert<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/kaisary-philip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">P. Kaisary<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/khan-ummni\/\">U. Khan<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/malette-sebastien\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">S. Malette<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/moore-dawn\/\">D. Moore<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/oklopcic-zoran\/\">Z. Oklopcic<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/ozsu-umut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U. Ozsu<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/wilke-christiane\/\">C. Wilke<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/wright-j-barry\/\">B. Wright<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty Research Areas Our teaching staff possess a number of research area strengths, including but not limited to the below major categories. For more information on specific faculty members, click on the below faculty names, or view one of the following directory pages: Faculty Supervision Areas, Department Faculty,&nbsp;Adjunct Researchers,&nbsp;Emeritus Professors. 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