Professor Dayna Scott joined Osgoode’s faculty in 2006 after completing a SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship at McGill’s Faculty of Law. She is cross-appointed with the Faculty of Environmental Studies. Professor Scott's teaching is in administrative law, environmental law, and international environmental governance. Her current research project, Environmental Justice for the Aamjiwnaang, tackles the issue of chronic pollution on an Ontario reserve. Specifically, she seeks to apply a critical perspective to the examination of law's treatment of the "risks" of long-term, low-dose exposures to pollutants. Professor Scott's 2005 dissertation is a socio-legal analysis of the transformative potential of international law’s “precautionary principle” as it has been employed by the environmental health movement. Among other awards, Professor Scott has been a recipient of Fulbright and SSHRC Fellowships, and the Law Commission of Canada’s “Audacity of Imagination” Prize. She is interested in questions of environmental regulation and governance from an interdisciplinary perspective, especially work that interrogates the interaction between local and global modes of governing and ways of knowing. In 2008-09, Professor Scott was appointed as the Director of the National Network on Environments and Women's Health.

Areas of interest: Public Law, Environmental Law, Gender and Environmental Health