Current Doctoral Students
Name | Dissertation Title | |
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Haniehalsadat Aboutorabifard |
Examining the role of transnational environmental initiatives in incorporating environmental values into international investment law
Areas of Research: International Environmental Law, International Investment Law, Incorporating environmental issues into international investment law, Examining the implication and likely effectiveness of voluntary environmental governance, Exploring the challenges of EIA to address climate change issues |
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Ephraim Ajijola |
A Practical Approach to Fintech Regulation & Financial Stability in Canada
Areas of Research: Fintech, Payments System, Financial Regulation, Financial Stability, Systemic Risk |
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Sarah Alghamdi | Migration Before and After the Revolution: Governing Migration in Tunisia from Above and Below | |
Wissam Aoun | The International Patent Practice Narrative: Patent Agents, Epistemic Capture and the Patent Bargain | |
James Barry | A Legal Biography of John Reeves | |
Odelia Bay |
Promoting Self-Care in the Accommodation of Episodic Disability at Work
Areas of Research: Disability Legal Studies, Labour Law , Canadian Human Rights Law, Legal Research and Writing |
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Frances Carnerie |
An Ethnographic Examination of the Toronto Community Youth Court: The Rehabilitation Ideal and Justice-Involved Youth with Mental Health and Substance Abuse Issues
Areas of Research: Youth Criminal Justice, Law and Justice, Child and Adolescent Psychology, Health Systems and Society |
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Carolyn Carter | Access to Family Justice: An Empirical Study of the Lived Experience of Black Women Navigating Ontario’s Family Courts | |
Helen Cheng | Reimagining digital connectivity through a fiduciary lens: a focus on data privacy and content management at Facebook | |
Jay De Santi |
Comparative Common Law Extradition and the Executive-Judicial-Individual Relationship (working title)
Areas of Research: Extradition Law, Constitutional Law and Rights, Criminal Law |
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Julie DeWolf | Impacts of stigma, colonialism, and systemic racism on Indigenous sex worker parents involved in Child Protection proceedings in Canada | |
Okechukwu Effoduh |
Masquerade Dance in Tennis Shoes: On the Legitimization of Artificial Intelligence and its Effects on Human Rights in Anglophone Africa
Areas of Research: Human Rights, Artificial Intelligence, International Law, TWAIL, Africa |
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Kenneth Grad |
Prosecuting hateful speech: An historical analysis of Zundel, Keegstra, and the criminal law's ability to protect vulnerable communities
Areas of Research: Hate speech/anti-discrimination, Legal history, Criminal law, Constitutional law, Tort law |
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Roojin Habibi |
The Progressive Development of International Law to Address Public Health Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and Response: The Role of Non-State Standard-Setting Efforts
Areas of Research: Public Health Law, Human Rights, International Law, International Relations, Action Research |
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Samaneh Hemat | Understanding International Religious Freedom Promotion: Perspectives from Canadian Development on Sacred Indigenous Land | |
Danardo Jones | Criminal Sentencing Reform: Imagining a Race-Conscious Approach to Sentencing Black Offenders. | |
Jon Khan |
The Absence of Deliberate Design in Canada's Legal System
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 Golden Ticket? Black Child Welfare Survivors, Racial Displacement Through Adoption & the End of Family Policing Systems
Areas of Research: Anti-Black Racism, Child Welfare/Family Law, Social Work, Black Studies, Activism/Organizing |
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Catherine Le Guerrier |
Consumer contracts for credit: Private law in socio-econo-historical context
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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Robin MacKnight |
Analog to Digital: Retooling the Taxation of Private Canadian Corporations
Areas of Research: Federal income tax, Canadian private corporations, Tax policy, Intergenerational tax planning |
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John McKay | Colonial Discourse and the Grounds of Law | |
María Corina Muskus Toro |
Exploring alternatives to the criminal system for Venezuelan women who have experienced sexual violence
Areas of Research: Criminal law, Sexual Violence, Feminist Legal Theory, Restorative Justice, Venezuela |
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Adaora Nwajiaku |
Canadian-Nigerian Engagements in the Area of Women's Rights
Areas of Research: Human Rights, Women's Rights, International Law, International Human Rights, Policy Making In Government |
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Ona Oshen |
The International Legal Regulation and Internalization of Artificial Intelligence: Norms, Practices and Transnationality
Areas of Research: International Law, Emerging Technologies and the Law |
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Inbar Peled | Multiracialized: The Predicament of Racialized Minorities in Multicultural Societies | |
Joanne Prince |
Conditonal Ownership: Challenging Responsiibility with the Ontario Civil Remedies Act, 2001
Areas of Research: Property, Forfeiture, Criminal law, Anti-social behaviour |
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Steven Procter |
Confronting the Contemporary “Art Flipping” Crisis with Artists’ Resale Rights: Millennial Investors and the Chase for Trophy Art in a Post-Pandemic Landscape.
Areas of Research: artist's resale rights (droit de suite), IP Law, Law & Art, Law & Literature, Canadian copyright law |
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Alexandra Scott |
Dealing in a World of Reality: Autonomous Weapons Systems, Law, and Professional Ethics
Areas of Research: Law and Technology, Science and Technology Studies, Artificial Intelligence, International Law, Engineering Ethics |
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Joshua Shaw |
Sorting Flesh, Making Waste: A Lawscape of Human Remains
Areas of Research: Administrative Law, Health Law, Property Law, Public Law, Legal Theory |
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Clare Shrybman |
A Dissolving Dichotomy: Recognizing Positive Rights to Life, Liberty and Security of the Person Under Section 7 of the Charter
Areas of Research: Human Rights law, Constitutional Law, Poverty Law, Reproductive Healthcare, Health Law |
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Jagteshwar Singh Sohi |
Environmental justice struggles in India: extractive industries, marginalized communities, and the law
Areas of Research: Environmental Law and Justice, Environmental Politics and Policy, Social Movements, South Asia, Tribes |
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Defne Sokmen | Repurposing the ‘S’: From Performance Disclosure in the Energy and Chemicals Industries | |
Deanne Sowter |
Towards a Modified Conception of the Family Lawyer
Areas of Research: Legal Ethics, Family Law, Family Violence, Dispute Resolution, Feminist Legal Theory |
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Vanisha Sukdeo |
Regulating the Corporation from Within and Without: Corporate Governance, Codes of Conduct, and Workers' Interests
Areas of Research: Corporate governance, Labour and employment law, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Associations |
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Amanda Turnbull |
Law, Language, and Emergent Creativity: The Algorithmic Turn
Areas of Research: Philosophy of Law, Law and Literature, Law and Technology, Legal History |
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Simon Wallace |
Banished from Canada: the deportation of de facto citizens
Areas of Research: Immigration law, Refugee law, Administrative law |
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Kerry Watkins |
Questioning Canada's Confessions Rule: A Comparative Analysis of Interrogation Law, Practices and Protections
Areas of Research: Canadian confessions law, Canadian police suspect questioning practices |
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Vincent Wong |
Structuring and Silencing Unfree Migrant Labour: Racial Capitalism and Canada’s Status-Excluded Communities
Areas of Research: Racial Capitalism, Law and Political Economy, Immigration Law, Access to Justice, International Human Rights Law |
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Colin Wood | The Inertia of the Prison: A Socio-Legal Inquiry into the Persistence of Canadian Carcerality | |
Summaiya Zaidi |
Legal Education in Pakistan: Traditions and Transitions
Areas of Research: Legal profession, Legal education, Sociology of lawyering, Postcolonial legalities, Legal practice |