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	Name	Research
image of Haniehalsadat Aboutorabifard	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
image of Adewale Adekunle Adeyeye	Adewale Adekunle Adeyeye	This research raises a key question, "how did the landmark case of Amodu Tijani v. Secretary, Southern Nigeria impact indigenous land rights after its determination in 1921?" Thus, this research investigates selected conflicting judicial decisions on indigenous land rights in Canada and Nigeria. Areas of Research: Property Law, Comparative International Legal History, African Legal History, Indigenous Land Rights, Public International Law
image of Ephraim Ajijola	Ephraim Ajijola	Why should Canada encourage non-bank fintech adoption? Canada's banking system is rated as the strongest in the world, and authorities appear keen on preserving the status quo. Yet, things may not be as they seem, and the system may benefit from improved non-bank consumer facing fintech engagements Areas of Research: Fintech, Banks, Financial Regulation, Financial Stability, Payments
image of Davi Almeida	Davi Almeida	Does a diverse body of judges produce diverse decisions? This question is vital for democracy and the analysis of the decisions of a group of minorities appointed judges in the Federal Justice of Canada will help to answer it. Areas of Research: Constitutional Law, Socio-legal studies, Administrative Law, Law and Democracy, Legal Theory
image of Odelia Bay	Odelia Bay	Areas of Research: Disability Legal Studies, Labour Law , Canadian Human Rights Law, Legal Research and Writing
image of Frances Carnerie	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
image of Carolyn Carter	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
image of Jay De Santi	Jay De Santi	How has British imperialism shaped contemporary common law extradition practices? Focusing on Canada, Ireland, and the UK, this dissertation examines the historical development of extradition and its contemporary practices, with special attention paid to human rights dimensions. Areas of Research: Extradition Law, Criminal Law, International Law, Human Rights, Administrative Law
image of Jake Okechukwu Effoduh	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
image of Kenneth Grad	Kenneth Grad	My dissertation studies the efficacy of the criminal sanction and other regulatory measures as tools for combating racist speech. My research question is: assuming that hate speech harms vulnerable groups and pollutes our discourse, what can history tell us about the law’s ability to combat it? Areas of Research: Criminal law, Human rights, Legal history, Constitutional law, Anti-discrimination
image of Roojin Habibi	Roojin Habibi	Areas of Research: Public Health Law, Human Rights, International Law, International Relations, Action Research
image of Shushanna Harris	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
image of Malcolm Katrak	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
image of Jon Khan	Jon Khan	Areas of Research: Human-centered design; empirical legal research; access to justice; judicial decision-making; empirical legal reform.
image of Josh Lamers	Josh Lamers	Areas of Research: Anti-Black Racism, Child Welfare/Family Law, Social Work, Black Studies, Activism/Organizing
image of Catherine Le Guerrier	Catherine Le Guerrier	Areas of Research: Contracts in the welfare state, Consumer protection, Adhesion contract, Private law and contract theory, Law and political economy
image of Luna Li	Luna Li	This shift towards “quantification” of the workforce and pervasive collection of workers' data create a complex legal terrain. This study aims to empower workers in Canada by investigating how the law can evolve and innovate in the sphere of data ownership and data property rights for workers. Areas of Research: Employment and Labour Law, Artificial Intelligence, Data Property Rights, Algorithmic Management, Human Rights
image of María Corina Muskus Toro	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
image of Amir Hossein Nahidi	Amir Hossein Nahidi	What is the legal character, scope and content of the right to freedom of thought and how can it be applied in the context of emerging technologies that violate the forum internum via various neuroscientific techniques? Areas of Research: Public International Law, International Human Rights Law, Jurisprudence, Law and Technology, aw and Religion
image of Adaora Nwajiaku	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
image of Odunayo Olowookere	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
image of Ona Oshen	Ona Oshen	How, and to what extent, has the emergence of AI been received and internalized in international law? This research seeks to explore how international law norms have evolved in response to AI. It also examines how, in reverse, the AI life cycle is impacted by international law. Areas of Research: Artificial Intelligence, International Law, Human Rights, Responsible AI
image of Joanne Prince	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
image of Steven Rita-Procter	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
image of Zoe Savitsky	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
image of Alexandra Scott	Alexandra Scott	Areas of Research: Law and Technology, Science and Technology Studies, Artificial Intelligence, International Law, Engineering Ethics
image of Clare Shrybman	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
image of Sam Skinner	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
image of Jagteshwar Singh Sohi	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
image of Deanne Sowter	Deanne Sowter	Areas of Research: Legal Ethics, Family Law, Family Violence, Dispute Resolution, Feminist Legal Theory
image of Amanda Turnbull	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
image of Pauline Vengeroff	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
image of Simon Wallace	Simon Wallace	Areas of Research: Immigration law, Refugee law, Administrative law
image of Kerry Watkins	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
image of Vincent Wong	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