Current Doctoral Students
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| Haniehalsadat Aboutorabifard |
In my research project, I focus on the sustainable development aspect of foreign direct investments to examine this central question: how investors-state dispute settlement tribunals (ICSID) could hold foreign investors environmentally responsible to foster sustainable development in host States.
Areas of Research: Investment Law, Environmental Law, Sustainable Development, Investor-State Dispute Settlement Tribunals, Transnational Legal Theory |
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| Aida Abraha |
My doctoral research examines how Canadian courts and labour arbitrator interpret and respond to the use of AI-powered surveillance technologies in the workplace.
Areas of Research: Critical Theories of Law and Technology, Law and Political Economy , AI Regulation and Governance , Privacy and Data Protection Law, Labour, employment and workplace human rights |
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| Adewale Adeyeye |
My research asks, how did the 1921 landmark case of Amodu Tijani v. Secretary, Southern Nigeria impact and could impact Indigenous land rights, jurisprudence, laws, and policies in Canada and Nigeria? The is to investigate/present an African contribution to the development of international law.
Areas of Research: Property Law, Comparative International Legal History, Indigenous Land Rights, Public International Law, TWAIL |
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| Ephraim Ajijola |
My research seeks to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the legal framework for resolving Canadian big banks when they struggle and become non-viable.
Areas of Research: Fintech, Banking, Contracts law, Commercial law, Cryptocurrency |
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| Ruba Al-Hassani |
My dissertation aims to understand and reconcile different popular perspectives on Iraqi state sovereignty, particularly in the context of the Tishreen Protests and the war on ISIS, by asking: 'How can Digital Sociology aid the study of post-2003 Iraqi state sovereignty?'
Areas of Research: Transitional Justice, Sociology of Social Movements, Sociology of Law, Iraqi Studies |
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| Davi Almeida |
Is judicial recruitment by appointment democratic? This question is vital to the legitimacy of the judiciary, and examining both the appointment system and the profile of appointed judges in Brazil and Canada helps to address it.
Areas of Research: Constitutional Law, Comparative Public Law, Sociolegal Studies, Political Science, Legal Philosophy |
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| Robert Balcom |
The focus of my research is on the ever-changing corporate law and governance frameworks resulting from the treatment of corporate purpose and ESG and stakeholder capitalism movements.
Areas of Research: Corporate Governance, Corporate Purpose, Corporate Democracy, Environmental, Social and Governance, Stakeholder Theory |
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| Nancy Barkhordari |
My proposed research raises questions about whether and how inter alia procedural and statutory rules, procedural vehicle, and liability rules contribute the damages lottery in tort law; and, whether same are (a) consistent with the make-whole conception of damages, and (b) problematic for tort law.
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| Odelia Bay |
Areas of Research: Disability Legal Studies, Labour Law , Canadian Human Rights Law, Legal Research and Writing |
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| Frances Carnerie |
The Youth Criminal Justice Act aspires to protect the public by holding accountable youth who have committed offences, while promoting their rehabilitation; yet does not define "rehabilitation". This is a study of approaches to rehabilitation deployed in a Toronto youth mental health court.
Areas of Research: Youth Criminal Justice, Law and Justice, Child and Adolescent Psychology, Health Systems and Society |
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| Carolyn Carter |
How can public legal education and information (PLEI) help low-and-modest-income racialized Canadians gain meaningful access to civil justice? My dissertation examines the effectiveness of PLEI in helping racialized Canadians address their civil legal problems.
Areas of Research: Access to Civil Justice, Public Legal Education and Information, Advocacy, Race, Critical Race Theory |
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| Madeline Davis |
I am interested in analysing: (1) how Canada, the United Kingdom, France and the United States define and conceptualize cultural heritage within their domestic laws; and (2) how domestic regulatory regimes relating to cultural heritage affect repatriation claims.
Areas of Research: Law, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Property, Colonialism |
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| Jay De Santi |
My dissertation project examines Canadian extradition law and practices through the lenses of criminal, administrative, and international law. Using critical theories arising from these legal fields, it will trace the impacts of British imperialism on extradition's legal and political dimensions.
Areas of Research: Extradition, Criminal Law, International Law, Human Rights, Administrative Law |
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| Jake Okechukwu Effoduh |
This dissertation investigates the legitimization of AI in Anglophone Africa and its impact on human rights praxis. It examines the role of AI in addressing the legitimization crisis affecting human rights advancement, using evidence from Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa (the African Triangle).
Areas of Research: Human Rights, Artificial Intelligence, International Law, TWAIL, Africa |
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| Daniel Escott |
My research explores how to integrate AI into the Canadian justice system to improve access to justice while upholding constitutional principles like judicial independence. I'm using a mixed-methods approach to understand technology's impact on all system actors' rights and obligations regarding AI.
Areas of Research: Access to justice, Access to justice, Legal process engineering, Artificial intelligence, Artificial intelligence |
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| Shushanna Harris |
Research Question: When we center the voices of Black women survivors of Intimate Partner Violence who are or were in relationships with Black men who abused them, what do we learn about their experiences and their encounters with the Criminal Law System? do alternative justice models emerge?
Areas of Research: Intimate Partner Violence, Intersectionality, Racism, Black feminism, Law |
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| Malcolm Katrak |
I seek to carry out case studies of independent unions (eg - ALU), established unions (eg- Teamsters), and unions that have formed coalitions with alt-labour movements (eg- Quebec's CSN's collaboration with the IWC-CTI), focusing specifically on their efforts in organizing Amazon warehouse workers
Areas of Research: Labour Law, Employment Law, Law and Technology, Law of Contracts |
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| Jon Khan |
Areas of Research: Human-centered design; empirical legal research; access to justice; judicial decision-making; empirical legal reform. |
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| Josh Lamers |
The central question to my research is whether the experiences and outcomes of the legal adoption of Black adoptees into white households reflect the paramount legal purpose in Ontario's child welfare legislation, specifically concepts of best interest, protection and well-being of Black children.
Areas of Research: Family Law, Child Welfare, Adoption Studies, Social Work, Anti-Black Racism |
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| Catherine Le Guerrier |
Areas of Research: Contracts in the welfare state, Consumer protection, Adhesion contract, Private law and contract theory, Law and political economy |
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| Luna X. Li |
Areas of Research: Technology Law, Intellectual Property, Labour Law/Industrial Relations, International and Comparative Law, Data Ownership |
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| Tekleab Mowos |
My research seeks to explore the reasons for the compliance crisis plaguing the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights. Research Question: Is there a relationship between the domestic dynamics of the state and the phenomenon of general noncompliance with the African Court’s decisions?
Areas of Research: Domestic Governance, Compliance Theories/Challenges, International/Regional Courts, Human Rights Law, International Law |
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| María Corina Muskus Toro |
My dissertation will foster a critical examination of the criminal law system in Venezuela through a feminist and restorative lens. I will offer the first feminist analysis of the criminal law system by shedding light on the experiences of women who have experienced sexual violence.
Areas of Research: Criminal law, Sexual Violence, Feminist Legal Theory, Gender Studies, Venezuela |
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| Amir Hossein Nahidi |
This doctoral research investigates how public actors violate the right to freedom of thought through the use of emerging AI and quantum technologies.
Areas of Research: Philosophy of Law, Public International Law, International Human Rights Law, Constitutional Law, Law and Emerging Technology |
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| Adaora Nwajiaku |
The world gets smaller per minute with big impacts on people, particularly women.
I'm researching Canada and Nigeria's bilateral engagements to understand their impact (if any) on women's rights in both spheres. I investigate the nature, attainments, problems, and prospects of these relations.
Areas of Research: Women's Rights, Human Rights, International Relations, International Law, African Feminism |
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| Daniel Olika |
How can we ensure that cross-border tax issues do not threaten the successful implementation of the Agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)? My research project seeks to address how trade and tax issues intersect (and even conflict) in the context of the AfCFTA.
Areas of Research: Fiscal Policy, International Economic Law, Tax Law, Human Rights and Development, International Trade Law, International Tax Law & Policy |
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| Odunayo Olowookere |
In the process of digitizing money, what legal frameworks and foundational principles that govern monetary affairs should be preserved or restructured?
What are the potential implications of neglecting or overlooking these established legal frameworks/structures and principles?
Areas of Research: Monetary Law, Law and Technology, Institutional design, Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), Monetary Sovereignty |
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| Ona Oshen |
This research investigates whether, and to what extent, a norm on responsible AI has emerged under international law.
Areas of Research: Artificial Intelligence, International Law, Al Governance, Human Rights, Technology Regulation |
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| Joanne Prince |
i) Is civil forfeiture similar to other hybrid criminal /civil statutes that ask citizens to control crime?
ii) How does the enforcement of civil forfeiture statutes impact vulnerable members of society?
iii) Are these statutes effective?
Areas of Research: Property Rights, Criminal Law, Pre-Crime, Property Law |
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| Steven Rita-Procter |
As the saying goes, “apart from drugs, art is the biggest unregulated market in the world.” My research examines the historical and legal origins of the art market's unique and unprecedented culture of secrecy and opacity.
Areas of Research: Art markets, Financial market oversight and regulation, Intellectual property, Legal history, International criminal law |
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| Zoe Savitsky |
This dissertation examines how business corporations became "persons," how they gained the human power of speech or expression, and how, in the modern era, so much of their speech/expression is legally protected, even when it may be deceptive—and may be implicated in significant real-world harm.
Areas of Research: Corporate Law, Coporate Accountability, Comparative constitutionalism, Litigation, Free speech and expression |
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| Alexandra Scott |
Areas of Research: Law and Technology, Science and Technology Studies, Artificial Intelligence, International Law, Engineering Ethics |
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| Clare Shrybman |
My research examines human rights claims engaging socioeconomic aspects of the right to life and security of the person under section 7 of the Canadian Charter and the reasons that Canadian courts have given for declining to find a positive component to the right.
Areas of Research: Human Rights law, Constitutional Law, Poverty Law, Socio-economic rights |
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| Didar Shwan |
This dissertation interrogates the archives of international law to trace how coloniality has shaped the formation and operation of the international legal order in its engagement with slavery. It focuses on the conceptual and legal marginalization of the enslavement of women in the Global South.
Areas of Research: Third World Approaches to International Law, Post-Colonial Feminism, Human Rights, International Legal History, International Law |
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| Nicola Simpson |
How does the forum non conveniens doctrine reinforce dominance in Canadian transnational family law? Combining doctrinal and comparative analysis with decolonial, feminist, Indigenous, and intersectional frameworks, this research reimagines jurisdiction to consider marginalized families.
Areas of Research: Social/Restorative Justice, Indigenous Legal Orders, Transnational Family Law, Feminist Legal Theory, Post-colonial Legal Theory |
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| Sam Skinner |
What does the exceptional status of the agriculture industry from criminal animal cruelty law enforcement reveal about both the purpose of criminal law and the legal conception of animals? My research empirically reviews case law to prove the exception, and critically discusses both areas of law.
Areas of Research: Criminal Law, Animal Law, Consitutional Law, Legal Personhood, Critical Legal Studies |
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| Jagteshwar Singh Sohi |
I research practices and performance of justice to understand whether it is equally available to all or if its enactments are precariously distributed by studying an environmental justice struggle of marginalized mining affected communities of Goa/India and their interactions with the law and state.
Areas of Research: South Asia, Law/Justice, Environmental Justice, Forest laws, Indigenous/Tribal |
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| Deanne Sowter |
I am currently studying gender-based violence, lawyers’ ethics in relation to myths and stereotypes in family law cases, and the implications for victims’ access to justice. My doctoral research considers whether the prevailing understanding of the lawyer’s role properly captures family law.
Areas of Research: Legal Ethics and Professionalism, Family Law, Dispute Resolution, Feminist Legal Theory, Gender-Based Violence |
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| Amanda Turnbull |
My doctoral research examines how law, language, and authority function in the “Algorithmic Turn” in society, wherein algorithms are becoming the main mediator through which power is effected.
Areas of Research: Law and Technology, Contract Law, Feminism and law, Philosophy of law, Cybersecurity |
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| Pauline Vengeroff |
This research examines the regulation of AI training data to mitigate algorithmic biases, emphasizing a reformed privacy approach, and exploring implications in health information and copyright laws. It advocates for a framework ensuring ethical and trustworthy AI through data governance.
Areas of Research: Privacy Law and Data Governance, Artificial Intelligence Regulation, Personal Health Information, Data Quality for AI systems, Algorithmic Discrimination |
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| Kerry Watkins |
I am interested in the criminal justice implications of the gap between the Supreme Court of Canada's ambition that its statement law reflect social science knowledge of confessions and the limited degree to which this ambition has been realized, and I would like to know if this gap can be narrowed.
Areas of Research: Statement law, Confessions, Interrogation, Psychology of interrogation and confession |
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| Vincent Wong |
My dissertation uses the lens of racial capitalism to consider whether and to what extent the contemporary structuring of status-excluded labour in Canada echo (or are dissimilar) to the ways in which negatively racialized migrant labour has been structured in the past.
Areas of Research: Racial Capitalism, Immigration Law, Critical Race Theory, Labour Law, Legal History |