Other Research Advisors

Annie Bunting

Professor of Law and Society, Department of Social Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies

Supervision: LLM and PhD

Annie Bunting is Professor of Law and Society in the Department of Social Science. Her research expertise includes socio-legal studies of marriage and childhoods, feminist international law, contemporary slavery, and culture, religion and law. Since 2010, she has directed an international research collaboration (SSHRC-funded Partnership) called Conjugal Slavery in War: Partnership for the study of enslavement, marriage and masculinities. This project includes partners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda, Canada and England.

She has interest in community-based, participatory and arts-based research methods. She is the co-editor of ‘Research as more than extraction: Knowledge production and gender-based violence African societies’ (Ohio Univ. Press, 2023) with Allen Kiconco and Joel Quirk; ‘Contemporary Slavery: Popular Rhetoric and Political Practice’ (Univ. of British Columbia Press, 2017; Cornell Univ. Press, 2018) with Joel Quirk; and ‘Marriage by Force? Contestation over Consent and Coercion in Africa’ (Ohio Univ. Press, 2016) with Benjamin Lawrance and Richard Roberts. She is currently working on the impact of COVID in Liberia; peacekeeper-perpetrated gender violence’ and youth, health and gender justice.

Professor Bunting is willing to read preliminary proposals from strong students in the areas of interest listed, and comment on interest in supervision prior to submission of an official application.

Nergis Canefe

Supervision: LLM and PhD

Nergis Canefe is a Full Professor at the Department of Politics, York University, Toronto, Canada and a graduate faculty member at Graduate Programmes in Social and Political Thought, Socio-Legal Studies, Humanities, Osgoode Hall Law School and Graduate Programme in Public Policy and Law at the same institution. She received her PhD at York University, Programme in Social and Political Thought and her SJD (PhD in Law) on international criminal law at Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada.

Fields of Research:

  • Global Politics of Dispossession
  • Critical Forced Migration and Citizenship Studies
  • Trauma, Memory, Atrocities of War and Societal Crimes
  • Jurisprudential debates on International Criminal Law
  • Nationalism and Mass Violence
  • Theories of Justice and Debates on Collective Responsibility
  • Politics and Ethics of Hope

Tesh Dagne

Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration

Supervision:  LLM and PhD

Professor Dagne’s research focuses on intellectual property in a development context and addresses the societal impacts of artificial intelligence from the perspective of data and intellectual property governance. His most recent work examines the intersections between Canadian intellectual property law and emerging technologies, exploring the challenges of big data and copyright governance that the application of advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and related technologies bring in different sectors.

He is currently working on the following projects in which he seeks graduate students to supervise: (1) Intellectual Property, Traditional Knowledge and Development (2) Sectoral Consideration of Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Applications in Health and Agriculture: Legal, Regulatory and Ethical Challenges and Opportunities (3) Labor and Environmental Considerations in Artificial Intelligence Governance.

Professor Dagne is willing to read preliminary proposals from strong students in the areas of interest listed, and comment on interest in supervision prior to submission of an official application.

Ian Stedman

Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies

Supervision: LLM and PhD

Professor Stedman is interested in supervising research in the areas of: 1) public sector ethics and accountability, and 2) the legal and ethical implications of technologies and policies relevant to personalization in healthcare, including current and potential uses of genome editing and artificial intelligence. He is also open to supervising other projects related to health law and policy and healthcare ethics, more generally.

Professor Stedman is willing to read preliminary proposals from strong students in the areas of interest listed, and comment on interest in supervision prior to submission of an official application.