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DAYNA NADINE SCOTT
Curriculum Vitae
Associate Professor, 4700 Keele St.
Osgoode Hall Law School/ Toronto, ON
Faculty of Environmental Studies, 416-736-5721
York University [email protected]
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2019-2020 York Visiting Scholar, Massey College, University of Toronto
2018-2023 York Research Chair in Environmental Law & Justice in the Green Economy
2013-2016 Graduate Program Director, Osgoode Hall Law School
2013 Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of
California, Berkeley, USA (Winter)
2012 Visiting Scholar, Kent Center for Law, Gender and Sexuality, Kent Law School,
UK (October)
2010- Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School and the Faculty of Environmental
Studies, York University, Toronto
2008-2013 Director, National Network on Environments and Women’s Health, a research
institute / Center of Excellence located at York University
2007- 2011 Member, Chemicals Management Plan Challenge Advisory Panel, appointed by
the Ministers of Health and the Environment, Government of Canada
2007- 2009 Member, Environmental Review Tribunal for Ontario, appointed by the Premier
of Ontario
2006- 2010 Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School and the Faculty of Environmental
Studies, York University, Toronto
2005-2007 Legal Research Fellow, Center for International Sustainable Development Law,
McGill University, Montreal
2005- 2006 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal
2004-2005 Global Research Fellow, Hauser Global Law Program, New York University
School of Law, New York, NY
2001-2002 Federal Court of Canada, Trial Division, Law Clerk to Madam Justice
Dolores Hansen
1998-1999 Sierra Legal Defence Fund, Researcher and Writer
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Law (Osgoode Hall Law School, 2005). The Mutual Constitution of Risk and
Precaution: Reflections on the Precautionary Principle in Action.
M.E.S. (York University, Faculty of Environmental Studies, 2001). Carbon Sinks Science and
the Kyoto Protocol: Opportunities for Paradigmatic Policy Shift. Awarded the York University
Thesis Prize.
LL.B. (Osgoode Hall Law School, 2001).
B.Sc. (Honours) (University of Guelph, Ecology, 1997).
ACADEMIC HONOURS
2011, 2017 Osgoode Hall Research Fellowship, awarded annually by Osgoode Hall Law
School to a faculty member engaged in a significant research project; allows for a
term of teaching release to allow for a sustained period of focused research
2005 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Post-doctoral Fellowship, McGill University Faculty of Law ($40,000 /year)
2005 Killam Post-doctoral Fellowship Award (declined), University of British
Columbia Faculty of Law ($50,000 /year)
2005 Law Commission of Canada, Nathalie Des Rosiers Audacity of Imagination
Award, Risk and Trust ($2000)
2004 Canada – US Fulbright Scholarship, Independent Research Award ($15,000 US)
2003-2005 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Doctoral
Fellowship ($19,000 / year)
2003 Law Commission of Canada, Legal Dimensions Award, Law & Risk ($5000)
2003 Environment Canada, Applied Environmental Economics and Policy Research
Scholarship ($4,000)
2002 Policy Research Initiative (SSHRC, CIHR, NSERC), Canadian Policy Research
Awards Graduate Prize
2002 Osgoode Hall Law School, Graduate Scholarship ($10,000)
2000 Environmental Law Center, University of Alberta, Calgary, Sir John A.
Mactaggart Essay Prize in Environmental Law
1997-1999 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Master’s Scholarship in Science Policy ($15,000 / year)
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PUBLICATIONS
Books
Dayna Nadine Scott (ed.) Our Chemical Selves: Gender, Toxics and Environmental Health, UBC
Press, 2015 (412pp).
Edited Special Issue Shiri Pasternak and Dayna Nadine Scott, Special Issue on Getting Back the Land: Anti-Colonial and Indigenous Strategies of Reclamation, (2020) 119(2) South Atlantic Quarterly.
Journal Articles
Dayna Nadine Scott, “Extraction Contracting: The Struggle for Control of Indigenous
Lands” (2020) 119(2) South Atlantic Quarterly, Special Issue on Getting Back the Land:
Anti-Colonial and Indigenous Strategies of Reclamation 269-299.
R Dayna Nadine Scott & Andrée Boisselle, “If there can only be ‘one law’, it must be Treaty
law. Learning from Kanawayandan D’Aaaki” (2019) 70 University of New Brunswick Law
Review, Special Issue on ‘The Perils of Pipelines and the Riddle of Resources’ 230-283.
R Jessica Eisen, Roxanne Mykitiuk & Dayna Nadine Scott, “Constituting Bodies into the
Future: Intergenerational Harm, Toxics and Relational Theory” (2018) 51(1) UBC Law
Review 1-53.
R Gus Van Harten & Dayna Nadine Scott, “Investment Treaties and the Internal Vetting of
Regulatory Proposals: A Case Study from Canada (Part Two)” (2017) Yearbook on
International Investment Law and Policy 2015-2016, 30pp.
R Dayna Nadine Scott & Adrian A. Smith, “Sacrifice Zones in the Green Energy Economy:
Towards an Environmental Justice Framework” (2017) 62(3) McGill Law Journal 1-38.
R Dayna Nadine Scott & Adrian A. Smith, “Sacrifice Zones in the Green Energy Economy:
The ‘New’ Climate Refugees” (2017) 26(2) Transnational Law & Contemporary
Problems (Symposium: International Environmental Law, Environmental Justice and the
Global South) 371-381.
R Dayna Nadine Scott & Adrian A. Smith, “The Abstract Subject of the Climate Migrant:
Displaced by the Rising Tides of the Green Energy Economy” (2017) 8(1) Journal of
Human Rights and the Environment 30-50.
R Dayna Nadine Scott, Jennie Haw & Robyn Lee, “Wannabe Toxic-Free? From
Precautionary Consumption to Corporeal Citizenship” (2017) 26(2) Environmental Politics
322-342 (published online 2016).
R Gus Van Harten & Dayna Nadine Scott, “Investment Treaties and the Internal Vetting of
Regulatory Proposals: A Case Study from Canada” (2016) 7(1) Journal of International
Dispute Settlement 92-116.
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R Dayna Nadine Scott, “Pollution et limites des corps: échelle des perturbations
endocriniennes, genre et recours au droit par une communauté amérindienne du Canada”
(2016) 34 (3) Sciences Sociales et Santé 77-101 (French translation of book chapter in
Feminist Torts, below).
R Dayna Nadine Scott, “‘We Are the Monitors Now’: Experiential Knowledge,
Transcorporeality and Environmental Justice” (2016) 25(3) Social & Legal Studies 261- 287 (2015 for OnlineFirst version).
R Leila Harris, Megan Peloso, Dayna Nadine Scott & Jyoti Phartiyal, “Women Talking
about Water: Feminist Subjectivities and Intersectional Understandings” (2015) 2/3 30
Canadian Women’s Studies Journal, Special Issue on Women and Water 15-22.
R Dayna Nadine Scott, “The Networked Infrastructure of Fossil Capitalism: Implications of
the New Pipeline Debates for Environmental Justice in Canada” (2013) 43 Revue générale
de droit, Special Issue on Environmental Justice and Human Rights 11-66.
R Dayna Nadine Scott, “Situating Sarnia: Unimagined Communities in the National Energy
Debate”, Special Issue on the National Energy Strategy, (2013) 25 Journal of
Environmental Law and Practice 81-112.
R Roxanne Mykitiuk & Dayna Nadine Scott, “Risky Pregnancy: Liability, Blame and
Insurance in the Governance of Pre-natal Harm” (2011) 43(2) UBC Law Review 311-
360.
Dayna Nadine Scott, “Body Polluted: Questions of Scale, Gender and Remedy”, (2010)
44(1) Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 121-156 (Special Symposium Issue on Injuries Without Remedies).
R Dayna Nadine Scott, ““Gender-Benders”: Sex and Law in the Constitution of Polluted
Bodies”, (2009) 17 Feminist Legal Studies 241-265.
R Dayna Nadine Scott, “Testing Toxicity: Proof and Precaution in Canada’s Chemicals
Management Plan” (2009) 18:1 Review of European Community and International
Environmental Law (RECIEL) 59-76.
R Dayna Nadine Scott, “Confronting Chronic Pollution: A Socio-Legal Analysis of Risk
and Precaution” (2008) 46:2 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 293-343.
R Sarah Hartley & Dayna Nadine Scott, “Out-of-Bounds? Resisting Discursive Limits in the
Debate over Food Biotechnology” (2006) 56 Canadian Review of Social Policy 104-109.
R Dayna Nadine Scott, “When Precaution Points Two Ways: Confronting “West Nile
Fever”” (2005) 20 (2) Canadian Journal of Law and Society 27-65.
R Dayna Nadine Scott, “Nature/ Culture Clash: The Transnational Trade in GMOs”, Global
Law Working Paper Series 2005 edited by Joseph Weiler, NYU School of Law, (55pp.).
R Dayna Nadine Scott, “Carbon Sinks Science and the Preservation of Old Growth Forests
Under the Kyoto Protocol” (2001) 10 (2) Journal of Environmental Law and Practice
105-145.
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Book Chapters
Dayna Nadine Scott & Lara Tessaro, “The Uneven Distribution of Pollution” in Chemicals
& the Law, Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law edited by Lucas Bergkamp, Adam
Abelkop, Lynn L. Bergeson and Bethami Auerbach (forthcoming, 2021).
Nathalie Chalifour & Dayna Nadine Scott, “Environmental Justice”, Chapter 4 in Al Lucas
et al (eds.) Environmental Law & Policy, 4th edition (Emond, 2020).
Dayna Nadine Scott & Adrian A. Smith, “Energy without Injustice? Green Energy Projects
as Expressions of Indigenous Jurisdiction” Environmental Justice and Sustainable
Development, Critical Perspectives, Sumudu Attaptu, Sara Seck and Carmen Gonzalez (eds.)
(Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Dayna Nadine Scott, “Environmental Justice and the Hesitant Embrace of Rights”, in
Human Rights and the Environment: Indivisibility, Dignity, and Legality, edited by James
R. May and Erin Daly, Encyclopedia of Environmental Law (Edward Elgar Press and the
IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, 2019) at 447-459.
Adrian A. Smith & Dayna Nadine Scott, “Transforming Relations in the Green Energy
Economy: Control of Lands and Livelihoods”, in Energy Justice: U.S. and International
Perspectives (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) (edited by Raya Salter, Carmen G. Gonzalez,
and Elizabeth Kronk Warner).
Dayna Nadine Scott, “The Environment, Federalism and the Charter” in Natalie Des
Rosiers, Patrick Macklem and Peter Oliver (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian
Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2017) 493-516 (invited).
• Re-published as “The Environment & the Charter” in Law Society of Upper
Canada, Special Lectures 2017. Canada @150: The Charter and the Constitution.
Dayna Nadine Scott, “The Smell of Neglect: Material Feminisms for Environmental
Justice”, Sheryl Hamilton, Diana Majury, Neil Sargeant, Dawn Moore, and Christiane
Wilke (eds.) Sensing Law (Routledge, 2017) 162-178.
Dayna Nadine Scott, Lauren Rakowski, Laila Zahra Harris & Troy Dixon, “The
Production of Pollution and the Consumption of Chemicals in Canada”, in Dayna Nadine
Scott (ed.) Our Chemical Selves: Gender, Toxics and Environmental Health (UBC Press,
2015).
Dayna Nadine Scott & Sarah Lewis, “Sex, Gender and the Chemicals Management
Plan”, in Dayna Nadine Scott (ed.) Our Chemical Selves: Gender, Toxics and
Environmental Health (UBC Press, 2015).
R Dayna Nadine Scott, “Pollution and the Body Boundary: Exploring Scale, Gender and
Remedy” in Janice Richardson and Erica Rackley (eds.) Feminist Perspectives on Tort
Law (Routledge, 2012) 55-79.
Dayna Nadine Scott & Sidra Sabzwari, "The Quest for Environmental Justice on a
Canadian Aboriginal Reserve", in Yves Le Bouthillier et al., Environment, Law &
Poverty, IUCN Academy of Environmental Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012).
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R Dayna Nadine Scott, “Risk as a Technique of Governance in an Era of Biotechnological Innovation”, Law Commission of Canada (ed.) Risk & Trust (Halifax: Fernwood Press,
2007) 23-56.
R Dayna Nadine Scott, “Shifting the Burden of Proof: The Precautionary Principle and its
Potential for the Democratization of Risk” in Law Commission of Canada (ed.) Law &
Risk (Vancouver: UBC Press and Les Presses de L’Université Laval, 2005) 50-85.
Book Reviews, Review Essays, Encyclopedia Entries and Other Short Publications
Shiri Pasternak and Dayna Nadine Scott, “Introduction: Getting Back the Land”, (2020) 119(2)
South Atlantic Quarterly, Special Issue on Getting Back the Land: Anti-Colonial and
Indigenous Strategies of Reclamation 205-213.
Dayna Nadine Scott, “Extractivism: Socio-Legal Approaches to Relations with Lands and
Resources” in Mariana Valverde, Kamari Clarke, Eve Darian-Smith and Prabha Kotiswaran, eds,
Handbook of Law and Society (Abingdon: Routledge, forthcoming 2021).
Dayna Nadine Scott, Commentary: “The Forces that Conspire to Keep us ‘Idle’” (2013) 28(3)
Canadian Journal of Law & Society 425-428.
Dayna Nadine Scott, “Environmental Justice”, Encyclopedia of Action Research (Sage, 2013).
Dayna Nadine Scott, “Law’s Slow Violence”, Review Essay, Rob Nixon, Slow Violence: The Environmentalism of the Poor (HUP, 2010), (2013) 50 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 479-489.
Dayna Nadine Scott, Review of Ellen Omohundro, Living in a Contaminated World: Community
Structures, Environmental Risks and Decision Frameworks (Ashgate 2004), (2006) 15 Review of
European Community and International Environmental Law (RECIEL) 240.
Dayna Nadine Scott, “Law as Local Knowledge”, Review of Sheila Jasanoff & Marybeth Long
Martello (eds.) Earthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental Governance (MIT Press,
2004) (2005) 1 McGill International Journal of Sustainable Development Law 81.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Dayna Nadine Scott, Fire in the Ring: Settler Law and Indigenous Jurisdiction on an Extractive
Frontier, manuscript in progress.
EXTERNAL RESEARCH FUNDING
2019 SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant (PI) with Cole Atlin and Estair Van Wagner,
Regional, Indigenous-Led and Sustainability-Informed Impact Assessment in
Ontario’s Ring of Fire ($28,830)
2016-2019 SSHRC Insight Grant (PI) with Andrée Boisselle, Deborah McGregor, & Estair
Van Wagner, Consent & Contract: Authorizing Extraction in Ontario’s Ring of
Fire ($160,533)
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2016-2019 SSHRC Partnership Development Grant (co-PI) with Shiri Pasternak, in
partnership with the Indigenous Network on Environments and Trade
(INET) and MiningWatch Canada, Reconciling Sovereignties: New
Techniques for Authorizing Extraction on Indigenous Territories
($175,710)
2016-2017 SSHRC CURA (Community-University Research Alliance), Adapting Canadian
Workplaces (ACW) Sub-Grant (PI Carla Lipsig-Mumme), Taking Ownership
(and Control) of the Green Energy Economy (with co-investigators Professor
Adrian Smith and Bruce Campbell of the Canadian Center for Policy
Alternatives) ($14,000)
2012-2015 SSHRC Insight Grant (Co-PI with Professor Gus Van Harten), Investigating
Regulatory Chill: Contemporary Constraints on Decision-Making to Protect the
Environment ($113,607)
2012-2015 Water Economics Policy & Governance Network (WEPGN) Sub-grant, The
Gender Implications of Putting a Price on Water ($34,000)
2012 Small Change Fund, Protecting Communities Downstream. Indigenous Youth
Make the Connection (PI)($1,530)
2010-2011 Law Foundation of Ontario, Access to Justice Fund, Community Forum on
Pollution and Action -- Aamjiwnaang Youth Photovoice Project on
Environmental Justice (PI) ($18,000)
2010 CIHR Meetings and Dissemination Grant, Community Forum on Pollution and
Action, with Aamjiwnaang First Nation Health and Environment Committee (PI)
($15,980)
2009-2014 CIHR/Health Canada, Team Grant on the Effects of Brominated Flame
Retardants on Reproductive Health, Social, Legal and Ethical Aspects,
($500,000 over five years, shared amongst team of three researchers)
2009-2014 CIHR/Health Canada, Team Grant on the Effects of Phthalates and “Green”
Plasticizers on Reproductive Health, Social, Legal and Ethical Aspects,
($500,000 over five years, shared amongst team of three researchers)
2008-2011 SSHRC Standard Research Grant, Environmental Justice for the Aamjiwnaang:
Constructions of Risk and Causation at the Local/Global Interface (PI) ($90,000)
2006 Law Commission of Canada, Virtual Scholar in Residence ($50,000 to the
faculty for teaching release, plus $10,000 research budget)(declined) “The Role of Citizens in the Regulation of Risk”
2004-2005 Collaborator, “Sharing Knowledges of Risk: Citizen Engagement with Science,
Law & Biotechnology”, SSHRC and the Law Commission of Canada
“Relationships in Transition” Program ($40,000)
2004 Canada – US Fulbright Scholarship, Independent Research Award ($15,000 US)
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2003-2004 Deliberating on Science & Sovereignty: The Precautionary Principle at the WTO
(PI) ($4,000), Economic and Regulatory Affairs Division, Environment Canada,
International Environmental Policy Competition
2003 Shifting the Burden of Proof: The Precautionary Principle and the
Democratization of Risk ($3,000) Law Commission of Canada, “Law & Risk”
INTERNAL RESEARCH FUNDING
York Research Chair in Environmental Law & Justice in the Green Economy (awarded through a
competitive process by the Vice-President of Research and Innovation, York University; $20,000
per year and associated course release for 2018-2023).
Harry Arthurs Collaborative Research Grant, with Professors Van Wagner (Lead Applicant),
Lawrence, Daum Shanks, Buchanan and Sutherland, The Feminist Judgments Project: Canada
(2018-2019, $4000)
Harry Arthurs Collaborative Research Grant, with Professors Williams (Lead Applicant), Craig,
Wai, Hay, Boisselle, and Bhatia, Osgoode Commons Reading Circle: Capital, Property, and
Laws, 2014-2015 ($4000)
Harry Arthurs Collaborative Research Grant, with Professors Boisselle (Lead Applicant),
McNeil, Lawrence, Bhatia, and Imai, Learning Law on the Land: Osgoode Aboriginal Awareness Camp, 2014-2015 ($4000)
Harry Arthurs Collaborative Research Grant, with Professors Imai (Lead Applicant), Van Harten,
Wood, Williams, Boisselle, Osgoode Workshop on Corporate Social Responsibility, awarded by
Osgoode Hall Law School, Research and Seminars Committee, 2013-2014 ($5000)
Research Intensification Fund (VPRI, York), Law’s Slow Violence, Co-Applicant with Professors
Lawrence, Buchanan, Zumbansen, Boisselle, Mykitiuk, and Osgoode Catalyst Fellow Pooja
Parmar ($1000)
Deans Conference Funding (Osgoode) , Law’s Slow Violence, Co-Applicant with Professors
Lawrence, Buchanan, Zumbansen, Boisselle, Mykitiuk, and Osgoode Catalyst Fellow Pooja
Parmar ($1890)
Harry Arthurs Collaborative Research Grant, Co-Applicant with Professors Lawrence, Buchanan,
Zumbansen, Boisselle, Mykitiuk,and Osgoode Catalyst Fellow Pooja Parmar, Law`s Slow
Violence: A Workshop, awarded by Osgoode Hall Law School, Research and Seminars
Committee, 2012-2013 ($5000)
SSHRC Small Travel Grant, 2011 ($1350), 2012 ($475)
Environmental Justice for Aamjiwnaang: The Environmental Health Effects of Chronic
Pollution and Legal Strategies to Combat it, 2007-2008, York University
Knowledge Mobilization Faculty Incentive Grant and Course Release (PI) ($4000)
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RESEARCH CENTER DIRECTORSHIP
National Network on Environments and Women’s Health, a federally-funded Center of
Excellence in Women’s Health from 2008-2013. Directed the research program; hired researchers
and trainees; drafted the responses to Calls for Proposals; implemented the research plans; partnered
with communities and other stakeholders; reported to advisory committee; and oversaw budgets
totaling over $1.8M for 5 years.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Courses taught: Osgoode Hall Law School: Environmental Law; International Environmental Law;
Environmental Justice & Sustainability Clinic; Risk & Regulation; Administrative Law; Law in a
Global Context (graduate). Faculty of Environmental Studies: Environmental Law & Justice
(graduate; integrated).
Special guest teaching: Las Nubes Field Course (Costa Rica): Environmental Justice and Land
Defence (2020-postponed); Monash Law School Exchange Program (Prato, Italy): International
Environmental Law (2016); Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Centre for Environmental Law Studies
(CEDAT) (Tarragona, Spain): In Search of Climate Justice (2018)
CONFERENCE PAPERS / INVITED PRESENTATIONS
Environmental Justice, Structural Racism and Air Pollution in Canada, invited presentation to
the Air Quality Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, July 30, 2020
[recorded]
Extraction Contracting: Why IBAs should not be confused with Indigenous consent, Ontario
Bar Association annual meeting, May 12, 2020
Fire in the Ring: Settler Law and Indigenous Jurisdiction in Ontario’s Far North,
Intersections Seminar Series, Geography University of Toronto, March 6, 2020
Community Interventions for Visualizing Petrochemical Violence in Canada, with Garance
Malivel, In the Shadow of the Petrochemical Smokestack, Lyon, France, November 29, 2019
“Consent & Contract: Thinking through the consequences of governing by ‘agreement’ in the
extractive sector” Panel presenter and organizer, JELP Environmental Law Conference,
Vancouver Island, BC, June 8, 2019
“Consent by Contract: Disregarding Climate, Caribou, Culture and Cumulative Impacts in
the Ring of Fire”, Piercing the Corporate Veil Conference, Osgoode Hall Law School,
November 16, 2018
Indigenous Resistance to Mining in Ontario’s Far North, with John Cutfeet and Donna
Ashamock, Guest Lecture, Osgoode Hall Law School, October 17, 2018
Indigenous and Colonial Law in Conversation, with Val Napoleon, Sarah Morales, and Deb
Curran, Law & Society Association, Toronto, June 7, 2018
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Consent & Contract: Indigenous Law and Jurisdiction in Ontario’s Far North, faculty
research seminar, Institute for International Law and the Humanities, Melbourne Law School,
May 22, 2018
Consent & Contract: Indigenous Law and Jurisdiction in Ontario’s Far North, faculty
seminar, UNSW, Sydney, May 28, 2018
Learning from Kanandayandan D’Aaki: Is There (Still) Only One Law? With community-
based researchers Donna Ashamock and John Cutfeet, and Professor Andrée Boisselle,
Decolonizing Law?, University of Windsor, April 2, 30, 2018
The Charter & the Environment, Law Society of Upper Canada’s Special Lecture Series,
Toronto, November 29, 2017,
Reconciling Sovereignties: New Techniques for Authorizing Extraction on Indigenous
Territories, Law & Society Association , Mexico City, June 24, 2017
Sacrifice Zones in the Green Energy Economy, Invited, Geography Department Faculty
Speaker Series, University of Western Ontario, March 31, 2017
Sacrifice Zones in the Green Energy Economy: Toward an Environmental Justice Framework,
Environment, People, Rights, Law. Special Issue of the McGill Law Journal Symposium,
Montreal, March 9, 2017
Sacrifice Zones in the Green Energy Economy, International Law and the Global South CRN,
Law & Society Association, New Orleans, June 2, 2016
Consent, Contract & Vultures: Contemporary Modes of Authorizing Extraction and Energy
Generation on Indigenous Lands, Fossil Fuels and Radical Sovereignties, UC Berkeley, January
29, 2016
Layers of Law and Hierarchies of Rights. The Case for (and Contours of) an Activist Research Project in Ontario’s Ring of Fire, Law & Society Association, Seattle, May 31, 2015
(Not) Shopping our Way to Safety: Endocrine Disruptors and Precautionary Consumption,
Politics of Evidence: Is Your Body a Toxic Site? University of Toronto, May 15, 2015
Environmental Health and the Charter: Proving Pollution’s Impact in Canada’s Chemical Valley, Environment and Health Program, University of Toronto, November 4, 2014
Aspiring to the Good Green Life? Ecological Citizenship in the City, Invited Lecture in the City Talks! Series at the University of Victoria, September 18, 2014
Intergenerational Justice and the Regulation of Everyday Exposures to Toxics, Law and Society Association, Minneapolis, May 30, 2014
Fighting Fossil Capitalism: The Legal Regulation of Dissent in Canada, Law and Society
Association, Minneapolis, May 30, 2014
Pipelines & Protest: The Legal Regulation of Dissent, Speaker Series, Socio-legal Studies, York
University, November 4, 2013
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Legal Regulation of Dissent to the ‘Responsible Resource Development’ Agenda, Special Event,
Oil: From the Tar Sands to Lac-Mégantic, The Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University,
October 17, 2013
Knowing Slow Violence, Response to Rob Nixon, Law’s Slow Violence Workshop, Osgoode Hall Law School, June 14, 2013
Prospects for Bringing the Upstream and Downstream Effects of a Coast-to-Coast Pipeline into
the New National Energy Debate, Emerging Issues in Canadian Public Law, University of
Ottawa, May 23, 2013, Ottawa
Unimagined Communities in the New Pipeline Debates, JD/MES Seminar, The New Law and
Politics of Pipelines in Canada, York University, February 14, 2013, Toronto
Getting our “Fix”: Fossil Capitalism and the Implications of the New Pipeline Proposals for
Environmental Justice in Canada, Faculty Seminar Series, Osgoode Hall Law School, January
30, 2013, Toronto Winaaptae (It is Blowing Dirty): A Corporeal Feminism for Environmental Justice, Feminist
Legal Studies Seminar Series, Faculty of Law, Queens University, January 21, 2013, Kingston
Proof of Harm: Endocrine Disruption and the Battle for Epistemological Control, Institut Nationale de la santé, December 14, 2012, Paris, France
Unimagined Communities in the National Energy Strategy, Environmental Justice and Human Right Symposium, University of Ottawa, November 9, 2012, Ottawa
The Smell of Neglect: A Material Feminism for Environmental Justice, Kent Center for Law,
Gender and Sexuality, October 23, 2012, Kent Law School, UK
Situating Sarnia: Unimagined Communities in the National Energy Strategy, Annual Meeting of
the Journal of Environmental Law & Practice, June 1, 2012, Cypress Hills, SK Situating Sarnia: Multiple Legal Orders and the "Unintentional" Production of Pollution in
Canada, Carleton University Department of Law, March 22, 2012, Ottawa
Fighting over Expertise and Authority in Canada`s Chemical Valley, «Qui gère le risque
environnemental? La prise en charge juridique du risque en Europe et au Canada», Faculté de
droit de l'Université de Montréal, September 29, 2011, Montreal
The Environmental Justice Movement in Canada, American Bar Association Annual Meetings,
Panel on Cross-Border Environmental Justice Organizing, August 7, 2011, Toronto
Indigenous Activism and Community, Canadian Law & Society Association, May 30, 2011,
Fredericton, NB
The ‘Unintentional’ Production of Pollution in Canada, Osgoode Hall Law School Faculty
Seminar Series, March 28, 2011, Toronto
The Laws of Pollution Dynamics, Global North/Global South Perspectives on Transnational
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Governance, Jindal Global Law School, March 14, 2011, Delhi, India
Community Forum on Pollution and Action, Opening Remarks, Aamjiwnnag First Nation Health
& Environment Committee, February 11, 2011, Sarnia, ON
Gender-Bending Pollution & Environmental Justice: The Way we Talk about Endocrine
Disruption, Keynote Address, Canadian Women’s Health Network, CIHR Gender & Health
Conference, November 23, 2010, Toronto
Legal Consciousness and Ecological Citizenship in Comparative Perspective, Osgoode-Jindal
Global Law Workshop, October 26, 2010, Toronto
“Injuries without Remedies”, Invited Participant in the 2010 Loyola Law Review “Access to
Justice Symposium”, Loyola Law School, March 26, 2010, Los Angeles, CA
“Gender-Benders”: Sex and Law in the Constitution of Polluted Bodies, Invited Guest,
University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, Faculty Seminar Series, March 23, 2009, London
“Re-Thinking the Endocrine Disruption Discourse”, Guest Lecture, Health & Environment,
Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, April 1, 2009, Toronto
“The Healthy City: Poverty, Risk and Environment”, The Learning City, 4th
Annual
Constitutional Law Roundtable, Osgoode Hall Law School, March 5-6, 2009, Toronto
Critical and Comparative Studies of Indigenous Community Consultation, Panel Chair and
Commentator, Rethinking Extractive Industry: Regulation, Dispossession, Emerging Claims,
York University, March 6, 2009, Toronto
“The Challenge of Contemporary Pollution: Chronic Low-Dose Exposures within Legally Sanctioned Limits”, Women’s Health and Well-Being Speaker Series, York University, February
11, 2009, Toronto
“Confronting Chronic Pollution: Environmental Justice for the Aamjiwnaang”, Environment and
Health Seminar, Center for the Environment, University of Toronto, January 22, 2009, Toronto
“Oversaturated Airsheds, Pollution Hotspots and Cumulative Impacts: Legal Strategies”
(with Andrea Bradley and Sidra Sabzwari), IUCN Academy of Environmental Law,
Environmental Protection & Poverty Alleviation, November 13, 2008, Mexico City, Mexico
“The Production of Pollution and the Consumption of Chemicals in Canada”, Introductory
Remarks, Gender and Environmental Health Symposium, National Network on Environments
and Women’s Health, November 7, 2008, Toronto
“Gender-Benders”: Sex and Law in the Context of Chronic Pollution, Inaugural Lecture of the
Shirley Greenberg Chair for Women and the Legal Profession and the Environmental Law Group,
University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, September 10, 2008, Ottawa
"Gender-Benders": Risk and Law in the Shaping of a Contaminated Identity, Law and Society
Annual Meetings, June 6, 2008, Montreal, QC
“Gender-Benders": Risk and Law in the Shaping of a Contaminated Identity on the
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Aamjiwnaang Reserve, the Feminist Fridays, Institute for Feminist Legal Studies, Osgoode Hall
Law School, September 7, 2007, Toronto
Constructing Causal Narratives: Organizing for Environmental Justice, Law and Society Annual Meetings, July 27, 2007, Berlin, Germany
Environmental Justice and the Toxic Tort: A Warning, Law Union of Ontario, Annual Conference, “Justice for a Dying Planet”, February 10, 2007, Toronto
Constructions of Risk and Causal Narratives at the Local/Global Interface: Environmental
Justice for the Aamjiwnaang, Osgoode Faculty Seminar, February 9, 2007, Toronto
Risk Governance and Urban Environmental Health, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, February 21, 2006, Toronto
Disassembling the Double Helix: Science and Law at the WTO, McGill University Faculty of
Law, Faculty Seminar, February 8, 2006, Montreal, QC
The Precautionary Principle in Canadian Law, Ryerson University, Graduate Program in
Environmental Health, October 24, 2005, Toronto
Risk as a Technique of Governance, Law’s Empire, Canadian Law and Society (CLSA) Annual
Meetings, June 26-29, 2005, Harrison Hot Springs, BC
Risk as a Technique of Environmental Governance, Environmental Studies Association of
Canada, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, June 4, 2005, London, ON
Risk as a Technique of Governance in an Era of Biotechnological Innovation, Law Commission
of Canada Panel on Risk & Trust, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, June 4, 2005,
London, ON
Discourses of Risk and Precaution in Health, Annual Regional Socio-Legal Conference, Baldy
Center for Law & Social Policy, University of Buffalo, May 18, 2005, Buffalo, NY
Roundtable on Risk, Law Commission of Canada, Invited discussant, March 30, 2005, Ottawa
International Environmental Law Seminar, NYU School of Law and Woodrow Wilson School,
Princeton University, Invited discussant, January – April 2005
Disentwining Discourses: Ethics, Science & Law in the Regulation of Contested Technologies
Ethics and the Life Sciences, Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association,
University of Delaware, October 23, 2004, Newark, NJ
“Fellows Forums”, Hauser Global Law School Program, Invited discussant, seminars for visiting
fellows and faculty chaired by Professor Joseph Weiler, NYU School of Law, 2004-2005, New York
When Precaution Points Two Ways: Confronting “West Nile Fever”, Canadian Law and Society
Association (CLSA) Meetings, June 4, 2004, Winnipeg, MB
Deliberating on Science and Sovereignty (The Precautionary Principle at the WTO),
“Disciplining Law”, Graduate Law Students Association Conference, May 6, 2004, Toronto
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Professing to Educate…and Educating to Profess, McGill University, Panellist, “What is
Graduate Legal Education For?” A Symposium for Academics, July 4, 2003, Montreal, QC
Shifting the Burden of Proof: The Precautionary Principle and the Democratization of Risk
Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers (CALT) and the Canadian Law
and Society Association (CLSA), June 2, 2003, Halifax, NS
KNOWLEDGE DISSEMINATION / POPULAR CONTRIBUTIONS
Climate Litigation in Canada, constitutional aspects, McGill Law Journal podcast, July 2020
The battle for the ‘breathing lands’: Ontario’s Ring of Fire and the fate of its carbon-rich
peatlands (research profiled in story by James Wilt), The Narwhal, July 11, 2020
The Day After: Infrastructure, examining the perils and possibilities of our collective response to
COVID-19, Canadian Dimension Magazine, June 26, 2020
Fire in the Ring: Settler Law and Indigenous Jurisdiction on an Extractive Frontier, The Massey
Dialogues, a conversation with Principal of Massey College Nathalie Des Rosiers, The Honourable
Harry LaForme, and Junior Fellow Myim Bakan Kline, May 29, 2020
Ottawa steps into ‘Ring of Fire’ debate with Doug Ford, with David Peerla, Opinion, The
Conversation, February 17, 2020
Federal Government establishes a Regional Assessment Process for the Ring of Fire, Interview,
CBC Radio Thunder Bay, (and subsequent print coverage) February 13, 2020
Protecting the Planet & Peoples: Is responsible sourcing of minerals for renewable energy
possible? MiningWatch Annual Conference, “Turning Down the Heat: Can We Mine Our Way
Out of the Climate Crisis? Invited Commentary, Ottawa, Nov.15, 2019
After the Far North Act: Indigenous Jurisdiction in Ontario’s Far North (with John Cutfeet),
Yellowhead Institute Brief, July 9, 2019
Ontario Readies the Far North for Extraction, Legislative update, MiningWatch Canada AGM,
April 26, 2019, Ottawa
Doug Ford’s repeal of the Far North Act won’t gain the respect of Indigenous communities, Op-
Ed, The Globe and Mail, March 25, 2019.
Colonial and Indigenous Laws Colliding in the Ring of Fire, York Circle Talks, York University
Alumni event, November 17, 2018
Confusion and concern over land-use planning across northern Ontario (with John Cutfeet and
Donna Ashamock) The Conversation and the National Post, March 12, 2018.
These chemicals are bad for babies and whales: Why haven’t they been banned in Canada? (with
Lara Tessaro) The Conversation, October 9, 2017.
Toxic by Design: Eliminating harmful flame retardant chemicals from our bodies, homes, &
communities. Contributor to a White Paper by the Endocrine Disruptors Action Group (2017).
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Built-in Exposures: A Toxic Treadmill That We Can’t Get Off, Op-Ed with Michelle Murphy,
Globe & Mail, October 26, 2016.
Engaging Ethically in the Age of Sustainable Consumption, Editorial, Ethical & Sustainable
Consumerism? Women & Environments International Magazine, Fall 2016.
Wannabe Toxic-Free? Beyond Precautionary Consumption, Panelist at Café Scientifique:
Hidden Household Chemicals: What do they mean for you and your family? McGill University,
Montreal, May 12, 2015 (televised).
Northern Gateway: With feds poised to approve oil sands pipelines, Premier Clark’s “conditions” are not met, Op-ed, Globe & Mail, June 11, 2014.
Lac-Mégantic disaster shows Canada needs a national oil-transport plan, Op-Ed, Globe &
Mail, July 10, 2013.
Feminist Epistemologies for Knowing (& Resisting) Law`s Slow Violence, Guest Post to the
Institute for Feminist Legal Studies (IFLS) Blog, Osgoode Hall Law School, June 7, 2013
Interview on Breast Cancer and Occupational Exposures to Chemicals. Funding Research on
Women’s Health and the Environment, CBC Radio, Central Morning, November 20, 2012
Canada`s National Energy `Strategy`, Op-Ed, The Hill Times, June 25, 2012
The Weight on Our Shoulders, Editorial, Asbestos & Women`s Health, Women and
Environments International Magazine, Spring -Summer 2012
Science, Law and the Precautionary Principle, Are Women Automotive Plastics Workers at
Risk? Starting the Conversation, Workshop and Focus Groups, The National Network on
Environments and Women’s Health and the Canadian Auto Workers, January 27, 2012, Windsor
Interview on the public hearings into the Northern Gateway pipeline proposal, CHRY
Campus/Community Radio, York University, January 12, 2012
Beyond BPA: We need to get tough on toxics, Op-Ed, Globe & Mail, January 4, 2012
A new "climate justice" alliance is being forged between First Nations youth downstream from
Sarnia's Chemical Valley and Alberta's Tar Sands. Make the Connection, with Adrian A. Smith,
46 Canadian Dimension, January 2012
Sex, Gender & Chemicals: How the federal government’s Chemicals Management Plan is failing
Canadians, In Her Own Words, Rabble online, November 24, 2011
Pollution and Civil Rights aired August 16, 2011 on The Academic Minute, a National Public
Radio program featuring professors from top institutions across the US and the world, delving
into challenging topics but delivering messages in less than 2 minutes.
When Pollution Gets Personal: Can the chronic chemical pollution experienced by members of
the Aamjiwnaang First Nation near Sarnia, Ontario constitute a violation of their Charter rights? Published in the Sarnia Observer, November 9, 2010
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Oil spills not just 'out there,' Canadian feds should act now to prevent future crisis, with Sarah
Wiebe, published in The Hill Times, Aug.9, 2010
PEER-REVIEW AND EDITORIAL BOARD SERVICE
Journal of Environmental Law & Practice, Co-Editor, 2020-
Canadian Journal of Law & Society, Book Review Editor, 2017- 2020
SSHRC Insight Grants Adjudicator, Committee #23 (Multi-Disciplinary Social Sciences) 2017
SSHRC Insights Grants Expert Assessor, 2016, 2018
SSHRC Partnership Grants Expert Review Panel Member, 2016
Publications Review Committee, Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP),
Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2015-2020
Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Editorial Board Member, 2013-2020
Editorial Board Member, Women and Environments International, a journal associated with the
Women and Gender Studies Institute Studies, New College, University of Toronto and the
Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, 2007-2017
SERVICE TO THE BROADER ACADEMY
Tenure File Scholarship Assessments for UBC Faculty of Law, University of Victoria Faculty of Law,
University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, University of Calgary Faculty of Law, Thompson Rivers
University Faculty of Law
Article Peer-reviews for Alberta Law Review, Australian Indigenous Law Journal, Canadian
Journal of Law and Society, Indigenous Law Journal, Journal of Canadian Studies, Journal of
Environmental Law and Practice, Journal of Law & Social Policy, Law and Social Inquiry,
McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy, Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Onati
Socio-Legal Series, Ottawa Law Review, Queens Law Journal, Regulation & Governance,
Review of European Community and International Environmental Law (RECIEL), Supreme
Court Review, Sustainability, UBC Law Review, University of Toronto Law Review, Windsor
Yearbook of Access to Justice.
Manuscript Reviews for Fernwood Press, UBC Press, University of Calgary Press, Routledge.
PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Invited Speaker, Environmental Justice, Structural Racism and Air Quality in Canada, Science and
Technology Branch, Environment and Climate Change Canada, July 30, 2020
Lead Author, Request for a Regional Impact Assessment in the Ring of Fire, on behalf of the
Osgoode Environmental Justice & Sustainability Clinic, February 13, 2020 [successful]
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Legal Technical Support, Nishnawbe Aski Nation, Far North Act Think Tank, May 2019
Lead author, Submission under the Environmental Bill of Rights, ERO Registry #013-4734,
Proposal in support of the province’s review of the Far North Act, on behalf of the Osgoode
Environmental Justice & Sustainability Clinic, April 7, 2019
External Examiner, PhD Oral Defence, Cole Atlin: Pushing for Better: Confronting Conflict,
Unsustainability, and Colonialism through Sustainability Assessment and Regional Assessment in
the Ring of Fire, University of Waterloo, School of Environment, March 18, 2019
Legal Technical Support, Yellowhead Institute’s Red Paper Workshops, Ryerson University,
November 10-11, 2018
Convenor and Co-Host, Panel Discussion, “Critical Theory for the Anthropocene Future”, Law &
Society Association Side-Event, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, June 6, 2018
Lead author, Submission under the Environmental Bill of Rights, EBR Registry #013-1680, on
Ontario’s Proposed Policy for Cumulative Effects Assessment in Air Approvals, on behalf of the
Osgoode Environmental Justice & Sustainability Clinic, February 7, 2018
Convener and Moderator, Panel Discussion, “Air to Breathe: Regulating Cumulative Air Emissions
Canada’s Chemical Valley”, Osgood e Hall Law School, November 20, 2017
External Examiner, PhD Oral Defence, Chad Walker, “Wind energy policy, development, and
justice in Ontario and Nova Scotia, Canada: A comparison of technocratic and community-based
siting processes”, Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario, June 2017.
Invited Expert Witness, House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and
Sustainable Development, Review of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999. Brief
submitted and expert testimony provided on June 9, 2016, Ottawa (testimony cited in final
majority report; listen to my testimony here).
External Examiner, MA Oral Defence, Dave Hibbs, “Individualised Environmentalisms: The
Deadly Sins of Environmental Organizations”, Communications and Culture, York University,
August 2015
Participant, Gender/Dissent Workshop, Osgoode Hall Law School, May 12, 2014
Participant, Roundtable on Graduate Legal Education in Canada, McGill University Faculty of
Law, May 5, 2014
From Line 9 to Northern Gateway: The New Law and Politics of Energy Pipelines in Canada,
Panellist, JD/MES Program Seminar, Faculty of Environmental Studies and Osgoode Hall Law
School, York University, February 14, 2013
Forum on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals, Chair, The National Network on Environments and
Women`s Health in partnership with the Canadian Auto Workers and Breast Cancer Action
Montreal, February 1, 2013, Toronto
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Law & Resistance in Canada's Chemical Valley, Roundtable on Community-Engaged
Scholarship, Osgoode Research Celebration, March 2012, Toronto
Safe Environments Directorate Speaker Series (Health Canada) Invited Speaker, “Sex, Gender
and Chemicals”, November 30, 2011, Ottawa
ArtSlam, Co-Convenor in partnership with the Green Teens of Aamjiwnaang, an event for
Indigenous youth concerned about environmental justice, August 30, 2011, Aamjiwnaang
External Examiner, Ph.D. oral defence, So-Yan Seto, “A "Tricky Business" - Knowledge
Production in Children's Environmental Health”, OISE, University of Toronto, April 7, 2011
Community Forum on Pollution and Action, Forum Co-Convenor in partnership with the
Aamjiwnaang First Nation Health and Environment Committee, February 28, 2011, Sarnia
Pre-selection Adjudication Committee Member, SSHRC 2010 Doctoral Fellowships Competition
“Consuming” Chemicals Policy Forum, Chair, Health Canada and the National Network on
Environments and Women’s Health, Ottawa, February 26, 2009
Critical Perspectives on Environment and Women’s Health, Workshop Convenor, National
Network on Environments and Women’s Health and Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto,
January 30, 2009
Environmental Health Symposium, Participant, Aamjiwnaang First Nation / Sarnia,
March 26 and 27, 2008
Administrative Law in Context: A Symposium, Panellist: “Regulation and Rule-making”,
University of Toronto Faculty of Law, June 11, 2007
Exercise of Discretion in the Context of Administrative Agencies, Regional Roundtable Participant, Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, Toronto, May 30, 2007
Legal Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation by Vulnerable Communities, Learning Course
Instructor, United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, New York, May 3, 2007
Global Roundtable on Climate Change, Invited Participant and Representative of the Center for
International Sustainable Development Law, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, New
York, December 18-19, 2006
New Faculty Teaching at York, Summer Institute, Participant, York University Center for the
Support of Teaching, August 14-18, 2006
Fin de Siecle, Legal Theory Reading Group for Faculty, Fellows and Graduate Students
Participant, McGill University Faculty of Law, 2005-2006
Roundtable on Risk, Law Commission of Canada, Invited discussant, March 30, 2005, Ottawa
International Environmental Law Seminar, NYU School of Law and Woodrow Wilson School,
Princeton University, Discussant, weekly seminars for graduate students chaired by Professor
Richard Stewart, NYU, and Professor Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton, January – April 2005
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Globalization and its Discontents, Participant, weekly seminars chaired by Professors Kevin Davis and Joseph Weiler, NYU School of Law, January – April 2005
“Fellows Forums”, Hauser Global Law School Program, Discussant, weekly seminars for
visiting fellows and faculty chaired by Professor Joseph Weiler, NYU School of Law, 2004-2005
Managing and Protecting Natural Resources, Conference Participant, Fulbright Enrichment
Seminar, February 17 – 20, 2005, Tempe, Arizona
Public Science in a Liberal Democracy, Conference Participant, University of Saskatchewan,
October 18, 2004, Saskatoon
Professing to Educate…and Educating to Profess, McGill University, Panellist, “What is
Graduate Legal Education For?” A Symposium for Academics, July 4, 2003, Montreal
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
University Senate, 2020-
Standing Committee on Teaching and Learning, Osgoode (Chair 2018-2019)
Appeals Committee, FES (Chair, 2017-2018)
Willms and Shier Environmental Law Moot Coach, National competition, Osgoode (2017; 2019)
Academic Policy, Planning and Research Committee of Senate, York University (Member 2016-
2019)
Adjudicator, Trudeau Doctoral Fellowships Competition, York University, 2015
Recruitment Committee for the Selection of the Catalyst Fellow, Osgoode Hall Law School, Chair
(2016, 2015), Member (2014)
Planning Committee, Anishinaabe Law Camp at Neyashiinigmiing, Osgoode, Member (2014-2015);
Co-Chair (2016-2017)
Sub-Committee of Faculty Recruitment Committee for the CRC in Indigenous Environmental
Justice, Osgoode/FES, Chair (2013)
Graduate Studies Committee, Osgoode, Chair (2013-2016), Member (2006-2009; 2020-)
Faculty Recruitment Committee, Osgoode, Member (2013-2016)
Osgoode Hall Faculty Association, Bargaining Committee Member, 2012-2013
MES/JD Program Coordinator (Osgoode), 2011-2012; 2013-2014; 2017-2018
Tenure and Promotions Committee, Faculty of Environmental Studies, 2010-2012
MES/JD Joint Program Committee, Osgoode Hall Law School and the Faculty of Environmental
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Studies, Member 2009-
National Network for Environments and Women’s Health (within the York Institute for Health Research), Director, 2008-2013; Co-Director, 2014-2016
Merit Pay Committee (with Profs. Brooks and Condon), Osgoode Hall Law School, 2009
Institute for Feminist Legal Studies, Osgoode Hall Law School, Board Member, 2006-
Committee of Instruction, Faculty of Environmental Studies, 2006-
MES Curriculum Sub-Committee, Faculty of Environmental Studies, Member 2007-2016
Equality Committee, Osgoode Hall Law School, Member 2007-2009, Co-Chair 2009-2012; 2013-2014; 2014-2015; 2015-2016
Working Group on Fostering Inter-Disciplinary Work in Sustainable Development at McGill,
with Dean Nicholas Kasirer and Professor Richard Janda, McGill University, 2005-2006
POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW SUPERVISION
2015-2016 Dr. Shiri Pasternak, SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow, Economic Uncertainty, Risk,
and Aboriginal Title
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION (Primary Supervisor)
2020- Garance Malivel, PhD (FEUC)
2020- Jagteshwar Singh Sohi, PhD (Law)
2018-2019 Jagteshwar Singh Sohi, LL.M., Aranyer Adhikar (The Right to the Forest) – The
Story of the Struggle at Niyamgiri
2018-2019 Caroline Kovesi, MA, Critical Disability Studies, Collectively Acquired
Impairments and Environmental Racism: The Case of Flint Michigan
2018-2019 Amanda Spitzig, MES/JD, Indigenous-led Environmental Assessment in the Ring
of Fire
2018- Laura Tanguay, PhD (FES), Enclave Economies and the DEW Line in the Arctic
2017-2018 Jacqueline Hebert, MES/JD, Conservation Policy and Reconciliation in Ontario’s
North
2017- Chris Albinati, PhD (Osgoode), Understanding Indigenous law through resistance
in Secwépemcúl̕ecw (on leave)
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2016- Dustin Klaudt, LL.M., Climate Change Litigation (on leave)
2016- Jacob McLean, Ph.D (FES), New Materialist Approaches to Extractivism 2016-2018 Lara Tessaro, LLM, Toxics and Environmental Health Justice (supervision shared
with Professor Mykitiuk)
2015- Reena Shadaan, Ph.D (FES), Transgenerational Organizing by Women-of-
Colour Environmental Justice Activists 2015- Asma Atique, Ph.D (Osgoode), A Capabilities Approach to Environmental
Justice for Migrant Workers on Saadiyat Island 2015-2016 Amanda Smijovic, BES (Senior Honours Work), Breast Cancer and Work
2015-2016 Isabelle Owston, LLM, Climate Change and Human Rights
2015-2017 Chris Albinati, LLM, Indigenous Resistance to Resource Extraction (with Prof.
Boisselle)
2015-2017 Jacqui Kotyk (MES), Omnibus Legislation and Environmental Law
2014-2020 Sara Ghebremusse, Ph.D (Osgoode), The Resource Curse and Good Governance
in Sub-Saharan Africa (nominated for York University’s Dissertation Prize)
2014-2015 Emma Landy, MES/JD, Regulating Land-Grabbing in Sub-Saharan Africa
2014-2016 Andrea De Shield, MES, Regulating Drinking Water on First Nation Reserves
2013-2014 Crystal Lamont, MES, The Political Economy of Oil Transportation in Canada
2013-2014 Valerie McCarrol, MA (SLST), Elsipogtog and the Legacy of Oka: A Critical Environmental Justice Analysis
2013-2020 Mohammed Hassan, Ph.D. (Osgoode), The Phulbari Resistance in
Bangladesh: Environmental Justice for Adibasi
2013-2016 Luz Elena Valenzuela, LL.M. (Osgoode), Corporate Codes of Conduct and
Transnational Harm by Canadian Mining Companies
2013-2014 Erica Stahl, (MES/JD) Climate Justice and the LNG Proposals in BC
2013-2014 Rebecca Hall-McGuire, (MES/JD) Public Consultation and the Joint Review Panel
Hearings for the Northern Gateway Pipeline 2013-2014 Samandeep Jassy, MES, Environmental Justice in Indigenous Communities
2012- Jyoti Phartiyal, MES, Gender, Race and Class in Practices of Precautionary
Consumption (withdrawn for medical reasons) 2010-2014 Michael Posluns, LL.M. (Osgoode) Proof Burdens in Crown-First Nations
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Litigation
2010-2012 Erin Konsmo, MES, Reproductive Justice and Resource Extraction in Metis
Communities
2010-2012 Jessica Dawe, MES, Environmental Justice and Animals Rights in the Context of
Resource Extraction
2010-2012 Daniel Pomerants, MES, International Governance of the Arctic: The Beaufort
Sea Dispute
2010-2012 Sarah Lewis, MES, First Nations` Women`s Experiences and Use of Water
2009-2013 Sarah Wiebe, Ph.D. (Ottawa, Poli.Sci.)(external committee member but primary
field supervisor) Anatomy of Place: Environmental Health Politics in Canada`s
Chemical Valley
2009-2014 Ellen Sweeney, Ph.D. (FES) Breast Cancer Social Movements and
Environmental Illness
2009-2017 Bryony Halpin, Ph.D. (FES) First Nations Water Governance and Environmental
Justice (on leave 2014-2016)
2008-2015 Patricia Hania, Ph.D. (Osgoode) Water Law and Sustainability in Canada
2007-2013 Nora Farrell, Ph.D. (Osgoode) Challenges to Notions of Impartiality and
Independence
2007-2009 Andre Martin, MES/JD, Industrial Ecology and Extended Producer
Responsibility: A Case Study of Packaging Waste in Ontario
2007-2009 Tony Morris, MES, Biodiversity Policy in Ontario
2007-2010 Tracey Powell, LL.M. (Osgoode) Models of Law and Development in Jamaica
(shared supervision with Professor Buchanan)
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Academic Advisor, Friends of the Attawapiskat River Protectors, 2018-
Member, planning committee for “Into the Ring with Ford”, a fundraiser for Neskantaga and
Eabametoong First Nations, Ryerson University and the Yellowhead Institute, November 9, 2018
Member, Mooshkahan, cross-university planning committee for the ‘Water is Life’ visit by
Winona LaDuke, University of Toronto Convocation Hall, September 24, 2017
Member, The Politics of Evidence Working Group, a coalition of academics interested in the use
of science, data and evidence in support of environmental and health protection, 2014-2016
Academic Advisor, The Green Teens of Aamjiwnaang, a youth organization using creative voices
to bring awareness to the realities of life in Aamjiwnaang and taking action to defend their culture
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and land, Sarnia, 2010- 2012
Steering Committee Member, Environmental Health, Equity, and Law: Making the Links, a
project of the Canadian Environmental Law Association, 2009-2012
Advisory Group Member, Environmental Health Justice in the City, Research Interest Group,
University of Toronto, 2008-2010