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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 dscott@osgoode.yorku.ca

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