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| Name | Class Of | Thesis/Major Research Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Vincenzena Suppa | 2023 | Women Who Kill: Battered Woman’s Syndrome As A Justification For Self-Defence; Self-Defence, Mental Health, And Racial Visibility; A Comparative Case Analysis Of R V. Lavallee (1990) And R V. Naslund (2022) |
| Taek Kyoon Oh (Mike) | 2023 | Anti-Gentrification Movement(S) In Parkdale |
| Samantha Clark-Alldread | 2023 | Sex Work In Canada: Morality Policies Fueling Stigma And Discrimination |
| Rianna Spence | 2023 | "Custom Cars": Risky Driving Or Discrimination? |
| Juan Daniel Villamil Ardila | 2023 | Artificial Intelligence And Advanced Analytics For Decision-Making At The Canadian Border: Perpetuation Of Historical Biases And Discrimination, And The Violation Of Human Rights |
| Iqra Adil Butt | 2023 | Surveillance Capitalism, Privacy And Regulation In Canada: A Case Study Of Google Home Devices |
| Hayden West | 2023 | Canadian Neoliberalism And Mining: Investigating How Domestic Extractivist Policies Leave The State Unaccountable For Foreign Human Rights Violations |
| Allessia Chiappetta | 2023 | Artificial Intelligence (Ai): How The Special Committee On Artificial Intelligence In A Digital Age (Aida) Engages The Question Of Bias And Discrimination And What These Debates Reveal About How Meps Understand Artificial Intelligence (Ai) |
| Alisha Ilyas | 2023 | Gender-Based Disparities In The Workplace: Women In Corrections In Canada |
| Alanah Broomfield | 2023 | Perpetuation Of Racial Inequality For The Advancement Of The National Collegiate Athletic Association (Ncaa): The Use Of Antitrust Law As A Means To Correct The Racial Inequalities Affecting Black Male Student Athletes. |
| Subahini Srikantha | 2022 | The Politics Of Ex-Prisoner Reintegration In Canada: A Critical Analysis Of Systemic Failures In Release Programs |
| Natalie De Luca | 2022 |
"Law, Violence, And Injustice: Examining The Legal Response To Sexual Assault Victimization" |
| Michael Augustus Akagbor | 2022 | When Legal Orders Collide: Legal Pluralism And Lgbtq+ Rights In Ghana. |
| Metin Gun | 2022 | The Instrumentalization Of Authoritarian Law In Turkey: The Trustee Strategy Of The Erdogan Regime |
| Isaiah A Scipio | 2022 | The Differential Impact Of Covid-19 On Policing: The Amplification Of Systemic Racism And Racial Profiling |
| Hui Ying Song | 2022 | The Abortion Debate: A Comparative Analysis On Abortion Law Development In Canada And Ireland |
| Heather Lobb | 2022 | The Alberta Energy Regulator Hearing Process: Hearing Indigenous Voices |
| Ava Mahmood Pour Tehrani | 2022 | How Parole Requirements Impact Quality Of Life For Parolees In Ontario: A Critical Human Rights Assessment |
| Alicia Abbott-Mcleod | 2022 | Adultification As Discrimination: Contradictions In Canadian Legislation Pertaining To The Rights Of A Child |
| Alexia Vanessa Chamale | 2022 | Domestic Sex Trafficking In Canada: A Feminist Critique Of The Underground Sex Economy |
| Alexandria Medeiros | 2022 | Institutional Sexism In The Carceral System: The Problem Of Solitary Confinement Of Incarcerated Women |
| Zoe Sheikh | 2021 | China’s ‘Re-Education’ Camps: A Case Study Of Chinese Anti-Islamic ‘Cultural Genocide’ Targeting The Uyghur Minority |
| Tanya Pabla | 2021 | "Murdered And Missing Indigenous Women And Girls: A Discourse Analysis Of Gendered Colonial Violence In Canada" |
| Shivangi Svetlana Sawh | 2021 | Stigmatization Of Racialized Sex Workers In Canada |
| Sameeha Khan | 2021 | The Criminalization Of Political Dissent: An Analysis On The Toronto G20 Protests Through Agamben’s ‘State Of Exception’ |
| Paul Centorame | 2021 | From Deviance To Love: A Critical Genealogy Of Queer Liberation And Government In Canadian Law |
| Olivia Levy | 2021 | Who Regulates The Regulators? The Efficacy Of Canada’s Investment Industry Regulation In The Case Of Ponzi Schemes |
| Oleksandra Huzik | 2021 | Issues Of The Probation System For Juvenile Offenders In Ontario: Delinquency, Rehabilitation, And Trauma-Informed Justice |
| Nayani Nandakumar | 2021 | The Legal Construction Of Tamil Refugees: A Case Study Of Canadian Exclusion Cases Post-9/11 |
| Molly Egerdie | 2021 | “With the greatest of care”: Assemblages in 2SLGBTQQIA human rights advocacy in Canada |
| Lorissa Jaipaul | 2021 | If You Don’t See A Problem, You’re Part of the Problem: An Analysis of the Growing Support for the All Lives Matter Movement in Canada and Its Implications |
| Kayla Forjan | 2021 | Narrating the Future: Surveillance in Entertainment Media |
| Joseph McDermott | 2021 | A Critical Analysis of the Surveillance and Privacy Implications of Zoom |
| Jarka Sikdar | 2021 | Victim or Criminal? News Representations of Black Men as Victims of Gun Violence in Toronto |
| Haris Riaz | 2021 | Germany's CoDetermination: Explained |
| Hannah Morikawa | 2021 | Rethinking Reconciliation: A Problematization of Reconciliation Politics Through the Land Back Lens |
| Viktoria Krasnopolskey | 2020 | Technology and the Regulation of Bodies: A Case Study of Predictive Policing |
| Tyler De Melo | 2020 | Official Discourse and the Problematization of Addiction, Drugs and the Drug User |
| Sierra Michaelides | 2020 | Inmate Reports of Dynamic Risk Factors Affecting Incarceration: Systemic Barriers to Release, Denial of Institutional Health Care, and the Impact of COVID-19 |
| Shahrzad Rajabi | 2020 | An Analysis of Canada’s Move Towards the Decriminalization and Legalization of Marijuana: Medical vs. Recreational, and a Post-legalization Society |
| Ritika Tanotra | 2020 | Similar and Different: Measuring Barriers to Integration for Refugees and Economic Migrants Through Labour Market Participation |
| Midori Matthew | 2020 | "The New Residential Monster": The Challenge of Decolonizing Manitoba's Child Welfare System for Indigenous Children |
| Jefferd Ray Bryan | 2020 | Bitcoin’s Semi-Autonomous Social Field: Examining the Impact of Conflict Between Internal Rules and the Law on Bitcoin’s Social Utility |
| Autumn Weninger | 2020 | A Historical Review of the Symbolic and Functional Significance of Punishment: The Many Faces of Social Control |
| Aqsa Bhagat | 2020 | Citizenship and Monstrosity: The Case of Omar Khadr |
| Yasmina Aboudaba Aldohan | 2019 | Representations of White Terrorism in Journalism: A Comparison of the Quebec and New Zealand Shootings |
| Arunita Das | 2019 | Constructing Criminality: Examining R. v. Gladue and the Discourses Behind Sentencing |
| Kevin Ferreira | 2019 | Surveillance Capitalism – Using Data as Economic and Political Power: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Sidewalk Labs’ Smart City Proposal for the City of Toronto |
| Megan Forsey | 2019 | House Music as a Socio-Legal Inquiry |
| Nicholas Goberdhan | 2019 | Leaking Blackness into Law and Early-Psychiatry during the Antebellum South |
| Kalpana Jha | 2019 | Contested Sovereignty: Analysis from the India-Nepal Open Border |
| Tanika McLeod | 2019 | A Theoretical Exploration of Developments in Canadian Drug Policy |
| Mohammad Nasim | 2019 | A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Framing of Climate Change Refugees in News Media |
| Jennifer Prashad | 2019 | Engendering Justice for Migrant Women Fleeing Domestic Violence in the Canadian Refugee Determination System |
| Natasha Prashad | 2019 | Activating Indigenous Voices- The Role of Human Rights Education in Reconciliation |
| Samantha Rockbrune | 2019 | A New System? Exploring the Intersectional Implications of Juridification in the Colleges Ontario Sexual Violence Policy |
| Sanjida Salman | 2019 | In Plain Sight: An Analysis of Walking With Our Sisters and Your Eyes Curve Around Me as Counter-Narratives on Law's Violence |
| Maggie Tadros | 2019 | Consensual Teen Sexting and Police Anti-Sexting Campaigns |
| Claudia Tersigni | 2019 | Does Panic Transcend Truth? News Reporting on Gun-Crime and Police Carding in Toronto: 2004-2014 |
| Jennifer Truong | 2019 | "Saving the Last Dance": Colonial Legal Attacks on Indigenous Spirituality |
| Natalee Wise | 2019 | An Investigation of Toronto Police Services' use of YouTube to Address Issues of Accountability in the Social Media Age |
| Arshad Auckbarallee | 2018 | 'Shifting' the Discrimination Against Muslims in Canada: Islamophobia in Pre-and Post-9/11 Society. |
| Rebecca DelZotti | 2018 | Diversity, Spirituality and Religiosity in Canadian Federal Penitentiaries. |
| Eduardo Cornelius Gutierrez | 2018 | The Fight Against Corruption Translated: International Strategies and the Restructuring of the Brazilian Legal Field |
| Shaina Hodgson | 2018 | A Critical Analysis of "The Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act": Success or Failure? |
| Phillip Montana | 2018 | Dis[able]ing Space: A Socio-Legal Analysis of In/Accessibility. |
| Salisha Purushuttam | 2018 | "Click Here!": A Critical Analysis Ad/Undressing Motion M-47, Pornography and Public Health Discourse in Canada. |
| Ryan Ramdin | 2018 | Sweep: Opioids, Supervised Injection Sites, and Urban Space. |
| Hayden Sahid | 2018 | Exploring Cannabis Legalization in British Columbia and Ontario. |
| Crystal Benko | 2017 | What is Law? Exploring the Legal Consciousness of Youth in the Jane-Finch Community. |
| Adrian Hopici | 2017 | Corporate Codes of Conduct: Cultural and Institutional Representations of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Contemporary Western Societies |
| Aaqib Mahmood | 2017 | Anti-Islamic Discrimination: A Novel way of Uncovering Ontario’s Hidden Injustice towards Muslim Women. |
| Saqib Mahmood | 2017 | From the Western Outcast to the Righteous Hero: a visual methodological analysis of ISIS propaganda as representations. |
| Alvine Nintai | 2017 | Does the International Finance Corporation(IFC) comply with Compliance Advisor Ombudsman(CAO) recommendations? |
| Kamalpreet Rai | 2017 | Beeba Boys: Critically Analyzing South-Asian Gangs in Vancouver. |
| Natilie Richer | 2017 | The Art of Indigenous Protests |
| Atul Sannan | 2017 | The Reality of Forensic Science and the CSI Effect: A Legal Consciousness Approach to Forensic Evidence in Criminal Law. |
| Yamri Taddese | 2017 | Outlawed Looks: Behind the Law’s Compulsive Concern with Black Women’s Appearance. |
| Atinuke Akinyemi | 2016 | Traveling into Legality: An Exploratory Inquiry into the Legal Consciousness of Canadian Immigrants |
| Carolyn Carter | 2016 | Stories of Mandatory Information Program Sessions Attendees: A Plea for “Meaningful Access to Justice” |
| Andrew Costa | 2016 | Singular Snapshots and Moving Pictures: Spatial and Temporal Investigations of Legal Consciousness Studies (1990 to the Present) |
| Fatemeh Hedayat | 2016 | Designated Country of Origin: Spatialization and Specialization of Mexico |
| Natalia Hicks | 2016 | See You in Court! Public Intervention as Access to Law and Policy: The Case of Sex Work in Canada |
| Shah Denize Hosseini | 2016 | Colonization, Be Quiet: An Analysis of the RCMP’s (2014) Report on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women of Canada |
| Sabeen Kazmi | 2016 | Canadian Muslim Women as Right Bearers: Experiences of Inclusion and Exclusion within the Canadian Legal System |
| Krisna Saravanamuttu | 2016 | Political Identities, Human Rights, and International Justice: An Investigation of United Nations engagement in post-war Sri Lanka |
| Diana Tsui | 2016 | Justice in Context: A Socio-Legal Analysis of Self-Represented Tenants’ Experiences and Perceptions of Justice. |
| Shantini Abraham | 2015 | The NYBitLicense: Bitcoin Regulation in the Context of Attempts to Regulate Hawala. |
| Elena Dimitrievska | 2015 | Co-operation, Refusal, and In-Between: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Three Canadian Police Chiefs and Their Willingness to Collect Race Data. |
| David Kryszajtys | 2015 | Intelligence at all Costs: The Legal Consciousness of Nootropic Consumers on the Internet. |
| Brenton Layne | 2015 | The Safety Dance: Moral Regulation and Electronic Dance Music Culture in Toronto. |
| Vanessa Million | 2015 | A Case Study on Reporting Sexual Violence: The Dalhousie Dentistry ‘Scandal’. |
| Jovan Milosevic | 2015 | Access to Justice in Ontario: Addressing the Need for Reform in the Era of Self-Litigation. |
| Alice Romo | 2015 | From Rights to Freedom and Dignity: Implementing International Laws in Education and the Proposal for the Right to Childhood Talent |
| Sarah Asaph | 2014 | Protecting Women's Safety or Regulating Women's Sexuality: A Critical Analysis of the I'm not for Sale Campaign as a Moral Campaign. |
| Alison Carrey | 2014 | For Protecting Health, Safety and Community Development: Exploring the History of Winnipeg’s Grass and Weeds Regulation |
| Faye Fraser | 2014 | The Politics of Prostitution in Canada: Race, Aboriginal Women and the Bedford Decision. |
| Jason Huang | 2014 | The State and Small Arms: A Critique of the relationship between State Sovereignty and its Duty to Protect. |
| Jason Joseph | 2014 | Neoliberalism & Workers’ Rights: A Case for the Rejuvenation of Labour & Law. |
| Nadia Khan | 2014 | Citizenship Law, Exclusion and the Case of Deepan Budlakoti: Examining the Historical Development of the "Authentic" Canadian Citizen |
| Agnieszka Kozera | 2014 | Marginalized Women and Legal Aid: A Transnational Feminist Critque. |
| Valerie McCarrol | 2014 | Elsipogtog and the Legacy of Oka: A Critical Environmental Justice Analysis. |
| Angelica McManus | 2014 | Law, Culture and Inequality: Toward a Critical Legal Hermeneutics. |
| Beverly Orser | 2014 | Embodying Disorder: Street-Involved Women and Radical Community in “Toronto the Good,” 1880 — 1890. |
| Heather Tasker | 2014 | A Multifaceted Consideration of UNHCR'S Do You See What I See? Photography Project. |
| Irina Tokar | 2014 | Protecting the Sacred: Extractive Industries & Cultural Heritage in Madagascar. |
| Josie Vaccaro | 2014 | A Critical Analysis of Ontario's Domestic Violence Death Review Committee. |
| Sashendra Baldeo | 2013 | Exploring Barriers to Policing White Collar Crime. |
| Nadir Virjee | 2013 | Impact of Ideology on Institutional Interpretations: Hermeneutics, Criminalizations and Inequalities. |
| Zoha Zubari | 2013 | Is Torture Legal at Guantanamo Bay? A Comparison of American Laws with International Human Rights Standards. |
| Izabela Baczkowska | 2012 | Falling Between the cracks: A critical analysis of Gladue and the Battered Woman Syndrome in the context of Aboriginal femal offenders. |
| Sonia D'Angelo | 2012 | "To what world am I being released to?": An Analysis of the Repatriation of Omar Khadr. |
| Mayoori Malankov | 2012 | Discourse(s) of Genocide: The Canadian–Tamil Diaspora and the Politics of Naming and Narrating the Claim of 'Genocide' in the Public Sphere. |
| Surinder Multani | 2012 | (Dis)Empowering Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities: the Dilemma over the Regulation of Traditional Knowledge. |
| Aaron Samsel | 2012 | Know Your Rights Trainings: The Production of Legal Subjectivity Within Law and Organizing. |
| Kris Stone | 2012 | In Pursuit of Liberal Democracy: Charter Review and the Role of the Supreme Court of Canada. |
| Lisane Thirsk | 2012 | "This is How the Law Protects Us as Women": A Case Study of Street Harassment in Mexico City. |
| Jenna Yango | 2012 | Missionaries and Nation–Building: Constructing the State and the 'Indian' |
| Melanie Yanko | 2012 | The Promise of Equal Citizenship and the Struggle Against Racism: Ethiopian Jews in Israel. |
| Maryum Anis | 2011 | Race, Culture and Patriarchy: Social Constructions of Honour Killings in Canada. |
| Elizabeth Cave | 2011 | The Law's Probing GA[YS/ZE]: A Cultural Study of a Judicial Narrative on Legislative Intention. |
| Carly Centen | 2011 | "If everyone believes the same fiction, it's real:" Legal Consciousness & the Regulation of Protest at the G20 Summit" |
| Marsha Ellis | 2011 | Law in the Everyday Life of Rural Protest: Customary Legality and Legal Consciousness in Melancthon Township. |
| Giancarlo Fiorella | 2011 | Police Reform in Venezuela: Security and Jurisdiction in the Bolivarian Age. |
| Chandra Murdoch | 2011 | Amending and Enforcing the Indian Act: The Role of the Indian Agent, 1876–1910. |
| Dorinda So | 2011 | An Exploration of Automobility and Perceptions of Risk in the 2009-2010 Toyota Recall Crisis |
| Caren Weisbart | 2011 | Beyond Recognition: Alternative Rights-Realizing Strategies in the Northern Quiche Region of Guatemala. |
| Sana Affara | 2010 | Family Mediation as an Alternative to the Family Justice System? Issues, Problems and Critiques of Family Mediation. |
| Ashley Arrobas | 2010 | Neo–liberal Risk Management and Sexual Violence: A Comparative Case Study of Feminist Inspired Safety Advice to Women. |
| Timothy Bryan | 2010 | Miscegenation Law and the (Re)construction of Racial boundaries in Post–Civil War Virginia. |
| Mary–Elizabeth Dill | 2010 | Configuring and Contesting Subjectivities: Migrant Domestic Workers and the Canadian Nation–State. |
| Julianne DiSanto | 2010 | What's in a Name?:Re-reading the legal identity of the criminal sexual psychopath as a cultural artifact, a hybrid identity, and a legal classification. |
| Megan Hall | 2010 | Arbitrating Property Disputes in Virtuality: An Exploration of Virtual Property and a Proposal for Resolving Virtual Property Disputes. |
| Daniel Huizenga | 2010 | Documenting 'Community' in the #khomani San Land Claim in South Africa. |
| Liam Lattrell | 2010 | Instrumental Law: America and the Coast Guard's Use of the Law throughout the War on Drugs. |
| Flores Graciela Mendez | 2010 | Alien/ation: Race, Citizenship, and the Construction of the Mexican 'Illegal Alien' |
| Ajay Sandhu | 2010 | YouTube: A New Space For public Protest? Flipping the Dziekanski Script through Digital Activism. |
| Kerri Ann Scheer | 2010 | Blood Donation Policy in Canada: risk, Citizenry and the exclusion of "Men Who Have Sex with Men" |
| Shaira Vadasaria | 2010 | The Racial ‘State of Emergency’: Palestinian Womyn’s Testimonies of Prison, Occupation, and the Zionist Colonial Settler Project. |
| Preet Virdi | 2010 | Silence: Resistance or Acquiescence? Uncovering Sikh women’s perspectives on Canadian Law. |
| Dayna Crosby | 2009 | The Politics of 'Community' and the Scarborough Youth Justice Committee: A Conversation of Governance, Risk and the Production of the "Good 'Canadian' Citizen" |
| Stephany Mandin | 2009 | Economic Rights, Regulation and the Quest for Human Dignity in Contemporary Society. |
| Yael Machtinger | 2009 | Sounds of Silence: A Socio-Legal Exploration of Siruv Get and Iggun in Toronto. |
| Jazba Singh | 2009 | Drawing from the Unknowable: A Vedic Comspolitan Approach to Human Rights. |
| John Paul Ventrella | 2009 | The Toronto Aboriginal Persons (Gladue) Court: Thinking Seriously about the Role of a Unique Criminal Justice Initiative for Aboriginal Offenders. |
| Name | Class Of | Dissertation |
|---|---|---|
| Jessica Templeman | 2023 | Deciding To Deport: Considering Collateral Immigration Consequences in Ontario Based Courts |
| Heather Tasker | 2023 | Justice Must Be Done": Legal Engagements and Gendered Harms Following Peacekeeper-Perpetrated Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in the Democratic Republic of the Congo". |
| Sajjad Malik | 2021 | Conjunctures in Law and Development: Assemblages for Progress in Indian Agricultural Futures |
| Timothy Bryan | 2019 | Diversity, and the Politics of Hate Crime: An Analysis of the Police Response to Racially and Religiously Motivated Hate Crimes in the Greater Toronto Area |
| Daniel Huizenga | 2019 | Customary Law and Indigenous Rights in South Africa: From Transformative Constitutionalism to Living Law in Struggles for Rural Land Rights |
| Katrin Roots | 2018 | The Human Trafficking Matrix: Law, Policy and the Front-Line Anti-Trafficking Practices in Canada |
| Shekoufeh-Farrah Zandnia | 2017 | A Socio–Legal Analysis of Foreign Credentials Assessments and Recognition in Canada in Law and the Media: Logic, Legitimation and Limitations Regarding Foreign Trained Professionals (FTPs) |
| Yael C.B. Machtinger | 2017 | A Socio-Legal Investigation of ‘Get’ Jewish Divorce Refusal in New York and Toronto: Agunot Unstitching the Ties that Bind |
| Matthew McManus | 2017 | Becoming to Belong: Rethinking Democratic Freedom and the Rule of Law |
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