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| Name | Class of | Topic of Major Research Paper | Supervisor | Second Reader |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashley Arrobas | 2009 | Neo-Liberal Risk Management and Sexual Violence: A Comparative Case Study of Feminist Inspired Safety Advice to Women | Amanda Glasbeek | James Williams |
| 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" | Kimberley White | Livy Visano |
| Graciela Flores Mendez | 2009 | Citizenship, Race, and the Construction of the Mexican 'Illegal Alien' | Carmela Murdocca | Annie Bunting |
| Jazba Singh | 2009 | Drawing from the Unknowable: A Vedic Cosmopolitan Approach to International Human Rights Law | Fuyuki Kurasawa | Carmela Murdocca |
| Jazba Singh | 2009 | Drawing from the Unkowable: A Vedic Cosmopolitan Approach to International Human Rights Law | Fuyuki Kurasawa | Carmela Murdocca |
| John Paul Ventrella | 2009 | Thinking Seriously about the Toronto Aboriginal Persons (Gladue) Courts | Annie Bunting | Bonita Lawrence |
| Julianne Disanto | 2009 | 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 | Kimberley White | Allyson Lunny |
| Sana Affara | 2009 | Extending the Shadow of the Law: Family Mediation as an alternative to the Family Justice System? Issues, Problems and Critiques of Family Mediation | James Williams | Annie Bunting |
| Shaira Vadasaria | 2009 | The Racial 'State of Emergency': Palestinian Women's Testimonies of Prison, Occupation, and the Zionist Colonial Settler Project | Carmela Murdocca | Anna Agathangelou |
| Stephany Simons-Mandin | 2009 | Economic Rights, Regulation and Discrimination: Economic Status and the Quest for Human Dignity in Canadian, Neo-Liberal Society. | Richard Weissman | Jacqueline Krikorian |
| Timothy Bryan | 2009 | Miscegenation Law and the (Re)construction of Racial boundaries in Post-Civil War Virginia | Kimberley White | Carmela Murdocca |
| Yael C.B. Machtinger | 2009 | Sounds of Silence: A Socio-Leagal Exploration of SIruv Get and Iggun in Toronto | Annie Bunting | Susan Drummond |
| Ajay Sandhu | 2010 | Youtube: A New Space For Public Protest? Flipping the Dziekanski Script through Digital Activism | Kimberley White | Anna Pratt |
| Daniel Huizenga | 2010 | Documenting 'Community; in the Khomani San Land Claim in South Africa A 'Community Information Repository' as a Transitional Archive | Annie Bunting | Alison Crosby |
| Kerri Ann Scheer | 2010 | Blood Donation Policy in Canada: Risk, Citizenry and the Exclusion of "Men Who Have Sex with Men". | Kimberley White | Allyson Lunny |
| Liam Lattrell | 2010 | Instrumental Law: America and the Coast Guard's Use of the Law throughout the War on Drugs | Lesley Jacobs | Paul Craven |
| Manprit Kaur Virdi | 2010 | Silence: Resistance or Acquiescence? Sikh Women's Perspectives on Canadian Law | Lesley Jacobs | Annie Bunting |
| Maria Chantal Pike | 2010 | Rereading the Seal Hunt: Law, Narrative and National Identity in Canada | Kimberley White | Carmela Murdocca |
| Mary-Elizabethe Dill | 2010 | Configuring and Contesting Subjectivities: Migrant Domestic Workers and the Canadian Nation-State | Anna Pratt | Carmela Murdocca |
| Megan Hall | 2010 | Arbitrating Property Disputes in VirtualityL An Exploration of Virtual Prosperity and a Proposal for Resolving Virtual Property Disputes | Miriam Smith | Annie Bunting |
| Shekoufeh-Farrah Zandnia | 2010 | A Comparative Look at Reproductive Control in Romania and China through Law and the State: Reasons, Meanings, and Implications for Women | Annie Bunting | Patricia McDermott |
| Caren Weisbart | 2011 | Beyond Recognition: Alternative Rights-Realizing Strategies in the Northern Quiche Region of Guatemala | David Szablowski | Alison Crosby |
| Carley Centen | 2011 | "If everyone believes the same fiction, it's real:" Legal Consciousness & the Regulation of Protest at a G20 Summit | Lesley Jacobs | Alan Young |
| Chandra Murdoch | 2011 | Amending and Enforcing the Indian Act: The Role of the Indian Agent, 1876-1910 | Shelley A.M. Gavigan | William Craig Wicken |
| Dorinda So | 2011 | An Exploration of Automobility and the Perceptions of RIsk in the 2009-2010 Toyota Recall Crisis | David Szablowski | Dayna Nadine Scott |
| Elizabeth / Liz Cave | 2011 | The Law's Probing Ga[ys/ze]: A Cultural Study of a Judicial Narrative on Legislative Intention | Kimberley White | Allyson Lunny |
| Giancarlo Fiorella | 2011 | Police Reform in Venezuala: Security and Jurisdiction in the Bolvarian Age | Anna Pratt | James Williams |
| Marsha Ellis | 2011 | Law in the Everyday Life of Rural Protest Customary Legality and Legal Consciousness in Melancthon Township | Miriam Smith | Annie Bunting |
| Maryum Anis | 2011 | Race, Culture and Patriarchy: Social Construction of Honour Killings in Canada | Annie Bunting | Richard Weisman |
| Melanie Yanko | 2011 | The Promise of Equal Citizenship and the Struggle Against Racism: Ethiopian Jews in Israel | Bruce Ryder | Lesley Jacobs |
| Aaron Samsel | 2012 | Know Your Rights Trainings The Production of Legal Subjectivity within Law and Organizing | Carmela Murdocca | Annie Bunting |
| Izabela Baczkowska | 2012 | Falling between the cracks: A critical analysis of Gladue and the Battered Woman Syndrome in the context of Aboriginal female offenders | Amanda Glasbeek | Jonathan Rudin |
| Jenna Yango | 2012 | Missionaries and Nation-Building: Constructing the State and the 'Indian' | Kimberley White | Benjamin Berger |
| Kristopher Donald Stone | 2012 | In Pursuit of Liberal Democracy: Charter Review and the Role of the Supreme Court of Canada | Ian Green | Dagmar Soennecken |
| Lisane Thirsk | 2012 | "This Is How the Law Protects Us as Women": A Case Study of Street Harassment in Mexico City | Susan Ehrlick | Linda Peake |
| 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 | Fuyuki Kurasawa | Rudhramoorthy Cheran |
| Mona Zarifian | 2012 | Reforming Social Assistance Administration in Ontario: A Critical Exploration of the Potential Audit-Based Regime | Nergis Canefe | Janet Mosher |
| Sonia D'Angelo | 2012 | "To what world am I being released to?": An Analysis of the Repatriation of Omar Khadr | Carmela Murdocca | Allyson Lunny |
| Surinder Multani | 2012 | (Dis)Empowering Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities: the Dilemma over the Regulation of Traditional Knowledge | Rosemary Coombe | Peer Zumbansen |
| Zachary Singer | 2012 | Reconciling Legal Jurisprudence with The Scene | Annie Bunting | James Williams |
| Amanda Bordonaro | 2013 | The Truth and Reconciliation Commission for the Indian Residential School System in Canada: Is Truth-Sharing Enough for Reconciliation? | Annie Bunting | Jane McMillan |
| Jaleh Ghazi | 2013 | Iranian Women’s Legal and Rights Consciousness in Iran and Canada | Annie Bunting | |
| Megan Bertasson | 2013 | From Happened to Happening: A Case Study of Helen Betty Osborne's Experience with Colonial Violence | Shelley A.M. Gavigan | Richard Weisman |
| Nadir Virjee | 2013 | Impact of Ideology on Institutional Interpretations: Hermeneutics, Criminalization and Inequalities | Livy Visano | Jay Goulding |
| Sashendra Baldeo | 2013 | Exploring Barriers to Policing White Collar Crime | James Williams | Livy Visano |
| Tomasz Czubernat | 2013 | Smuggling Across the Canada- US Border Post-9/11 in the Commercial Trucking Industry | Livy Visano | James Williams |
| Zoha Tanvir Zubari | 2013 | Is Torture Legal at Guantanamo Bay?: A Comparison of American Laws with International Human Rights Standards | Nergis Canefe | Lesley Jacobs |
| Agnes Kozera | 2014 | Marginalized Women and Legal Aid: A Transnational Feminist Critique | Amanda Glasbeek | James Williams |
| Alison Carrey | 2014 | For Protecting Health, Safety and Community Development: Exploring the History of Winnipeg's Grass and Weeds Regulation | Kimberley White | Amanda Glasbeek |
| Angelica McManus | 2014 | Law, Culture and Inequality: Toward a Critical Legal Hermeneutics | Livy Visano | Jay Goulding |
| Beverly Orser | 2014 | Embodying Disorder: Street-Involved Women and Radical Community in "Toronto the Good," 1880-1890 | Amanda Glasbeek | Kimberley White |
| Faye Marie Fraser | 2014 | The Politics of Prostitution in Canada: Race, Aboriginal Women and the Bedford Decision | Lesley Jacobs | Anna Agathangelou |
| Heather Tasker | 2014 | Through Different Lenses: A Multifaceted Consideration of UNHCR'S Do You See What I See? Photography Project | Anna Pratt | Gerald Kernerman |
| Irina Tokar | 2014 | Protecting the Sacred: Extractive Industries & Cultural Heritage in Madagascar | Rosemary Coombe | Kean Birch |
| Jason Huang | 2014 | The State and Small Arms: A Critique of the Relationship between State Sovereignty and its Duty to Protect | James Sheptycki | Dave Mutimer |
| Jason Joseph | 2014 | Neoliberalism & Workers' Rights: A Case for the Rejuvenation of Labour & Law | James Williams | Stephanie Ross |
| Josie Vaccaro | 2014 | Reading Beyond Official Discourse: A Critical Analysis of Ontario's Domestic Death Review Committee | Kimberley White | Amanda Glasbeek |
| Jovan Milosevic | 2014 | Access to Justice in Ontario: Addressing the Need for Reform in the Era of Self-Litigation | Jacqueline Krikorian | Lesley Jacobs |
| Nadia Lina Khan | 2014 | Citizenship Law, Exclusion and the Case of Deepan Budlakoti: Examining the Historical Development of the "Authentic" Canadian Citizen | Amanda Glasbeek | Kimberley White |
| 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 | Amanda Glasbeek | Patricia McDermott |
| Valerie McCarrol | 2014 | Elsipogtog and the Legacy of Oka: A Critical Environmental Justice Analysis | Dayna N. Scott | James Williams |
| Alice Romo | 2015 | From Rights to Freedom and Dignity Implementing International Laws in Education and the Proposal for the Right to Childhood Talent | Lesley Jacobs | Karen Robson |
| Brenton Layne | 2015 | The Safety Dance: Moral Regulation and Electronic Dance Music Culture in Toronto | Amanda Glasbeek | James Williams |
| David Kyrszajtys | 2015 | Intelligence at all Costs: The Legal Consciousness of Nootropics on the Internet | Lesley Jacobs | James Williams |
| 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 | Amanda Glasbeek | Rosemary Coombe |
| Shantini Abraham | 2015 | The NYBitLicense: Bitcoin Regulation in the Context of Attempts to Regulate Hawala | James Williams | Margaret Beare |
| Vanessa Million | 2015 | A Case Study on Reporting Sexual Violence: The Dalhousie Dentistry 'Scandal' | Amanda Glasbeek | Annie Bunting |
| Andrew Costa | 2016 | Singular Snapshots and Moving Pictures: Spatial and Temporal Investigations of Legal Consciousness Studies (1990 to the Present) | Miriam Smith | Lesley Jacobs |
| Atinuke Akinyemi | 2016 | Traveling into Legality: An Exploratory Inquiry into the Legal Consciousness of Canadian Immigrants | Miriam Smith | Soren Frederiksen |
| Brittany Cerqua | 2016 | Canada's Newest Anti-Terrorism Laws: CSIS the Newest Threat to our Rights | Jacqueline Krikorian | Lesley Jacobs |
| Carolyn A. Carter | 2016 | Stories of Mandatory Information Program Sessions Attendees: A Plea for "Meaningful Access to Justice" | Lesley Jacobs | Jacqueline Krikorian |
| Denize Shah Hossein | 2016 | Colonization, Be Quiet: An Analysis of the RCMP's (2014) Report on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women of Canada | Bonita Lawrence | Carmela Murdocca |
| Diana Tsui | 2016 | Justice in Context: A Socio-Legal Analysis of Self-Represented Tenants Experiences and Perceptions of Justice | Lesley Jacobs | Jacqueline Krikorian |
| Krisna Saravanamuttu | 2016 | Political Identities, Human RIghts, and International Justice: An Investigation of United Nations engagement in post-war Sri Lanka | Annie Bunting | Obiora Chinedu Okafor |
| Sabeen Kazmi | 2016 | Canadian-Muslim Women as Right Bearers: Experiences of Inclusion and Exclusion within the Canadian Legal System | Nergis Canefe | Christopher Kyriakides |
| Selena Shaboian | 2016 | Techno-Legal Entanglement: How Access to Justice is Transforming the Access to Justice Problem | Lesley Jacobs | Jacqueline Krikorian |
| Aaqib Mahmood | 2017 | Anti-Islamic Discrimination: A Novel way of Uncovering Ontario's Hidden Injustice towards Muslim Women | Annie Bunting | Amelie Barras |
| Adrian Hopici | 2017 | Corporate Codes of Conduct: Cultural and Institutional Representations of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Contemporary Western Societies | James Williams | Kimberley White |
| Akvine Nintai | 2017 | Does the IFC comply with CAO compliance recommendations? | David Szablowski | James Williams |
| Crystal Benko | 2017 | What Is Law? Exploring the Legal Consciousness of Youth in the Jane and Finch Community | Annie Bunting | Carl E. James |
| Fatemeh Hedayat | 2017 | Designated Country of Origin: Spatialization and Specialization of Mexico | Dagmar Soennecken | Annie Bunting |
| Kamalpreet Kaur Rai | 2017 | Beeba Boys: Critically Analyzing South-Asian Gangs in Vancouver | Lesley Jacobs | Amanda Glasbeek |
| Natalia Hicks | 2017 | See You in Court! Public Intervention as Access to Law and Policy: The Case of Sex Work in Canada | Amanda Glasbeek | Miriam Smith |
| Natilie Richer | 2017 | The Art of Indigenous Protest | Kimberley White | Amanda Glasbeek |
| Saqib Mahmood | 2017 | From the Western Outcast to the Righteous Hero: a visual methodological analysis of ISIS propaganda as representations | Kimberley White | Merouan Mekouar |
| Yamri Taddese/ Yeamrot Tesfu Taddese | 2017 | Outlawed Looks: Behind the Law’s Compulsive Concern with Black Women’s Appearance | Lesley Jacobs | Lorne Foster |
| Arshad Auckbarallee | 2018 | Shifting' the Discrimination Against Muslims in Canada: Islamophobia in Pre-and Post-9/11 Society | Amelie Barras | Annie Bunting |
| Atul Sannan | 2018 | The Reality of Forensic Science and the CSI Effect: A Legal Consciousness Approach to Forensic Evidence in Criminal Law | Soren Frederiksen | Özgün Topak |
| Eduardo Gutierrez Cornelius | 2018 | The Fight Against Corruption Translated: International Strategies and the Restructuring of the Brazilian Legal Field | Miriam Smith | James Williams |
| Phillip Gianluca Montana | 2018 | Dis[Able]ing Space: A Socio-Legal Analysis of In/Accessibility | Livy Visano | Naomi C. Couto |
| Rebecca DelZotti | 2018 | Diversity, Spirituality and Religiosity in Canadian Federal Penitentiaries | Amelie Barras | Jacqueline Krikorian |
| Salisha Purushuttam | 2018 | "Click Here!" A Critical Analysis Ad/Undressing Motion M-47, Pornography and Public Health Discourse in Canada | Allyson Lunny | Deborah Brock |
| Shaina Hodgson | 2018 | A Critical Analysis of "The Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act": Success or Failure | Claudio Colaguori | Livy Visano |
| Arunita Das | 2019 | Constructing Criminality: Examining R v. Gladue and the Discourses Behind Sentencing Female Aboriginal Defendants | Dagmar Soennecken | Carmela Murdocca |
| Claudia Tersigni | 2019 | Does Panic Transcend Truth? News-Reporting on Gun-Crime and Police Carding in Toronto: 2004-2014 | Claudio Colaguori | James Shepteycki |
| Hayden Sahid | 2019 | The Green Rush: Exploring Cannabis Legalization in British Columbia and Ontario | Annie Bunting | Miriam Smith |
| Jennifer Prashad | 2019 | Engendering Justice for Migrant Women Fleeing Domestic Violence in the Canadian Refugee Determination System | Dagmar Soennecken | Annie Bunting |
| Jennifer Truong | 2019 | "Saving the Last Dance": Colonial Legal Attacks on Indigenous Spirituality | Bonita Lawrence | Laura Kwak |
| Kalpana Jha | 2019 | Contested Sovereignty: Analysis From the India-Nepal Open Border | Willem Maas | Amelie Barras |
| Maggie Tadros | 2019 | Constructions of Teen Sexting through Police Anti-Sexting Campaigns | Amanda Glasbeek | Kimberley White |
| Megan Forsey | 2019 | House Rules: House Music as a Socio-Legal Inquiry | Kimberley White | Amanda Glasbeek |
| Mohammad Nasim | 2019 | A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Framing of Climate Change Refugees in News Media | Dagmar Soennecken | Annie Bunting |
| Natalee Wise | 2019 | An Investigation of Toronto Police Services' use of Youtube to Address Issues of Accountability in the Social Media Age | Amanda Glasbeek | James Williams |
| Natasha Prashad | 2019 | Activating Indigenous Voices- The Role of Human Rights Education in Reconciliation | Lesley Jacobs | Livy Visano |
| Nicholas Goberdhan | 2019 | Leaking Blackness into Law and Early-Psychiatry during the Antebellum South | Kimberley White | Rachele Da Silveira Gorman |
| Ryan Navindra Ramdin | 2019 | Sweep: Opioids, Supervised Injection Sites, and Urban Space | Kimberley White | Karen Bridget Murray |
| Samantha Rockbrune | 2019 | A New System? Exploring the Intersectional Implications of Juridification in the Colleges Ontario Sexual Violence Policy | Tuulia Law | Laura Kwak |
| 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 | Carmela Murdocca | Amanda Glasbeek |
| Sherkhan Nasim | 2019 | A Critical Discourse of the Framing of Climate Change Refugees in News Media | Dagmar Soennecken | Annie Bunting |
| Tanika McLeod | 2019 | A Theoretical Exploration of Developments in Canadian Drug Policy | Claudio Colaguori | Laura Kwak |
| Yasmina Aldohan Aboudaba | 2019 | Representations of White Terrorism in Journalism: A Comparison of the Quebec and New Zealand shootings | Kimberley White | Amelie Barras |
| Aqsa Bhagat | 2020 | Citizenship and Monstrosity: The Case of Omar Khadr | David Szablowski | Amelie Barras |
| 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 | James Williams | Hossein Caroline Shenaz |
| Kevin Ferreira | 2020 | 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 | Natasha Tusikov | Soren Frederiksen |
| Midori Matthew | 2020 | "The New Residential Monster": The Challenge of Decolonizing Manitoba's Child Welfare System for Indigenous Children | Gabrielle Slowey | Miriam Smith |
| Ritika Tanotra | 2020 | Similar and Different: Measuring Barriers to Integration for Refugees and Economic Migrants Through Labour Market Participation | Dagmar Soennecken | Amelie Barras |
| Shahrzad Rajabi | 2020 | An Analysis of Canada’s Move Towards the Decriminalization and Legalization of Marijuana: Medical vs. Recreational, and a Post-legalization Society | Soren Frederiksen | Anita Lam |
| Tyler De Melo | 2020 | Official Discourse and the Problematization of Addiction, Drugs and the Drug User | Kimberley White | Claudio Colaguori |
| Viktoria Krasnopolskey | 2020 | Technology and the Regulation of Bodies: A Case Study of Predictive Policing | Natasha Tusikov | Özgün Topak |
| Autumn Weninger | 2021 | A Historical Review of the Symbolic and Functional Significance of Punishment: The Many Faces of Social Control | Claudio Colaguori | Jacqueline Krikorian |
| Hannah Morikawa | 2021 | Rethinking Reconciliation: A Problematization of Reconciliation Politics Through the Land Back Lens | Gabrielle Slowey | Bonita Lawrence |
| Haris Riaz | 2021 | Germany’s Codetermination: Explained | Leah Vosko | Eric Tucker |
| Jackie Sikdar | 2021 | Victim or Criminal? News Representations of Black Men as Victims of Gun Violence in Toronto | Anita Lam | Lorne Foster |
| Joseph McDermott | 2021 | A Critical Analysis of the Surveillance and Privacy Implications of Zoom | Ozgun Topak | Natasha Tusikov |
| Kayla Forjan | 2021 | Narrating the Future: Surveillance in Entertainment Media | Ozgun Topak | Natasha Tusikov |
| 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 | Jacqueline Krikorian | Lorne Foster |
| Nayani Nandakumar | 2021 | The Legal Construction of Tamil Refugees: A Case Study of Canadian Exclusion Cases Post-9/11 | Nergis Canefe | Jennifer Hyndman |
| Oleksandra Huzik | 2021 | Issues of the Probation System for Juvenile Offenders in Ontario: Delinquency, Rehabilitation, and Trauma-Informed Justice | Claudio Colaguori | James Shepteycki |
| Olivia Levy | 2021 | Who Regulates the Regulators? The Efficacy of Canada’s Investment Industry Regulation in the Case of Ponzi Schemes | James Sheptycki | Claudio Colaguori |
| Paul Centorame | 2021 | From Deviance to Love: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Liberation and Government in Canadian Law | Laura Kwak | Annie Bunting |
| Sameeha Khan | 2021 | The Criminalization of Political Dissent: An Analysis on the Toronto G20 Protests Through Agamben’s ‘State of Exception’ | Ozgun Topak | Natasha Tusikov |
| Shivangi Svetlana Sawh | 2021 | Stigmatization of Racialized Sex Workers in Canada | Tuulia Law | Leah Vosko |
| Sierra Michaelides | 2021 | Inmate Reports of Dynamic Risk Factors Affecting Incarceration: Systemic Barriers to Release, Denial of Institutional Health Care, and the Impact of COVID-19 | Claudio Colaguori | James Shepteycki |
| Subahini Srikantha | 2021 | The Politics of Ex-Prisoner Reintegration in Canada: A Critical Analysis of Systemic Failures in Release Programs | Livy Visano | Awalou Ouedraogo |
| Tanya Pabla | 2021 | Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls: A Discourse Analysis of Gendered Colonial Violence in Canada | Laura Kwak | Gabriella Slowey |
| Alanah Broomfield | 2022 | The Perpetuation of Racial Inequalities for the Capital Advancement of the National Collegiate Association (NCAA) | Annie Bunting | Carl E. James |
| Alexandria Medeiros | 2022 | Institutional Sexism in the Carceral System: The Problem of Solitary Confinement of Incarcerated Women | Amanda Glasbeek | Regina Schuller |
| Alexia Vanessa Chamale | 2022 | Domestic Sex Trafficking in Canada: A Feminist Critique of the Underground Sex Economy | Annie Bunting | Allyson Lunny |
| Alicia Abbott-McLeod | 2022 | Adultification as Discrimination: Contradictions in Canadian legislation pertaining to the rights of a Child | Annie Bunting | Carl E. James |
| Ava Mahmood Pour Tehrani | 2022 | How Parole Requirements Impact Quality of Life for Parolees in Ontario: A Critical Human Rights Assessment | Livy Visano | Ouedraogo Awalou |
| Heather Lobb | 2022 | The Alberta Energy Regulator Hearing Process: Hearing Indigenous Voices | Gabrielle Slowey | Dayna Scott |
| Hui Ying Song | 2022 | The Abortion Debate: A Comparative Analysis on Abortion Law Development in Canada and Ireland | Naomi Couto | Claudio Colaguori |
| Iqra Adil Butt | 2022 | Surveillance Capitalism, Privacy and Regulation in Canada: A Case Study of Google Home Devices | Soren Frederiksen | James Williams |
| Isaiah A Scipio | 2022 | The Differential Impact of COVID-19 on Policing: The Amplification of Systemic Racism and Racial Profiling | Livy Visano | Lorne Foster |
| Metin Gun | 2022 | The Instrumentalization of Authoritarian Law in Turkey: The Trustee Strategy of the Erdogan Regime | Amelie Barras | Miriam Smith |
| Michael Augustus Akagbor | 2022 | When Legal Orders Collide: Legal Pluralism and LGBTQ+ Rights in Ghana. | Mohammed Sesay | Miriam Smith |
| Molly Egerdie | 2022 | “With the greatest of care”: Assemblages in 2SLGBTQQIA human rights advocacy in Canada | Annie Bunting | Miriam Smith |
| Natalie De Luca | 2022 | Law, Violence, and Injustice: Examining the Legal Response to Sexual Assault Victimization | Tuulia Law | Amanda Glasbeek |
| Zoe Sheikh | 2022 | China’s ‘Re-education’ Camps: A Case Study of Chinese Anti-Islamic ‘Cultural Genocide’ Targeting the Uyghur Minority | Nergis Canefe | Annie Bunting |
| Alisha Ilyas | 2023 | Gender-Based Disparities in the Workplace: Women in Corrections in Canada | Marsha Rampersaud | Amanda Glasbeek |
| Allessia Chiappetta | 2023 | 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 Artifical Intelligence | Natasha Tusikov | Amanda Glasbeek |
| Hayden West | 2023 | Canadian neoliberalism and mining: Investigating how domestic extractivist policies leave the state unaccountable for foreign human rights violations | David Szablowski | Annie Bunting |
| Juan Daniel Villamil Ardila | 2023 | Artifical Intelligence and Advanced Analytics for Decision-Making at the Canadian Border: Perpetuation of Historical Biases and Discrimination, and the Violation of Human Rights | Dagmar Soennecken | Soren Frederiksen |
| Rianna Spence | 2023 | "Custom Cars": Risky Driving or Discrimination? | Bruce Ryder | Jessica Braimoh |
| Samantha Clark-Alldread | 2023 | Sex Work in Canada: Morality Policies Fueling Stigma and Discrimination | Amelie Barras | Amanda De Lisio |
| Taek Kyoon Oh | 2023 | The Anti-gentrification Movement(s) in Parkdale | Jessica Braimoh | Isabella Bakker |
| 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) | Jessica Braimoh | Allyson Lunny |
| Anjali Kumar | 2024 | Section 375: Is Marital Rape Rape? | Annie Bunting | Jessica Braimoh |
| C H Weng | 2024 | Deconstructing Environmental Justice and Aesthetics of Ruins in E-Wasteland | David Szablowski | Jay Ramasubramanyam |
| Cindy Ramsunahi | 2024 | The Truth in Reconciliation: Understanding Canada's Colonial Legacy Through the Lens of Child Welfare | Dagmar Soennecken | Carolyn Podruchny |
| Cyndia Mondesir | 2024 | Now You See Me, Now You Don't: Towards the Full Implementation of Human Rights Provisions for Black Women in Canada | Annie Bunting | Jessica Braimoh |
| Denise Laghayi | 2024 | Analyzing the Influence of Ontario’s Disciplinary Policies and Procedures Among Neurodivergent Youth | Marsha Rampersaud | Jessica Braimoh |
| Gloria Borlabi | 2024 | Politics of Domestic Violence and Human Rights Abuse in Ghana | Amelie Barras | Jay Ramasubramanyam |
| Ilena Ricker-Singh | 2024 | "Blocked Shots and Ice Bags": Rowan's Law and Underreporting in Post-Secondary Female Student Athletes in Ontario | Annie Bunting | Lauren Sergio |
| Karanveer Kabuli | 2024 | The Correlation Between Islamophobia and Radicalization Amongst Canadian Muslims | Amelie Barras | Safiyah Rochelle |
| Meher Ghuman | 2024 | A Lack of Ethics in the Execution Chamber: An Executioner Story | Safiyah Rochelle | Robert Muller |
| Nimrit Basra | 2024 | Tracing Punjabi Immigration and Framing Diasporic Unbelonging: Upholding White Canada through a Legal Subjectivity Scheme and Multicultural Myth | Ethel Tungohan | Jay Ramasubramanyam |
| Nourin Khan | 2024 | Whispers in the Workplace: A Socio-Legal Exploration of Workplace Harassment in Bangladesh | Annie Bunting | Amelie Barras |
| Stephanie Saliba | 2024 | Investigating Restorative Justice in Extrajudicial Measures and Extrajudicial Sanctions Programs in Ontario | Jessica Braimoh | Annie Bunting |
| Vanesa Rampersaud | 2024 | 1492 Landback Lane: A Cases Analysis Examining the Impact of Settler Activity on Indigenous Peoples | David Szablowski | Annie Bunting |
| Adnan Moakhan | 2025 | The Muslim Question: A Critical Analysis of Racialized Immigration Policy in Canada | Jay Ramasubramanyam | Amelie Barras |
| Adonika Wilkes | 2025 | Unsafe in Your Own Home: Chronicling Anti-Black Racism and Racialized Spatiality in Canada | Laura Kwak | Jessica Braimoh |
| Fengshu Yang | 2025 | Legal Pluralism: Law and Censorship’s Different Approaches to LGBTQ+ Rights in China | David Szablowski | Allyson Lunny |
| Melanie De Sousa | 2025 | MAID in Canada: A Disability-Informed Discourse Analysis of Disability at the Nexus of Healthcare and the Law Surrounding Carter v. Canada | Amelie Barras | Iván Vargas Roncancio |
| Michael Singh | 2025 | Ghosts Beneath the Welcome Mat: The ‘Second Colonization’ of Caribbean Minorities in Canada | Jessica Braimoh | Jay Ramasubramanyam |
| Paden Neundorf | 2025 | Platformed Pornography: Investigating Homosocial Bonding and the Algorithmic Reinforcement of Rape Culture | Sonia Lawrence | Annie Bunting |
| Pirethiga Perazhakan | 2025 | Privacy Implications of Period Tracking Apps | Natasha Tusikov | Özgün Topak |
| Rachele Tshiamala | 2025 | Extracting Inequality: Human Rights and Mining in the DRC | David Szablowski | Annie Bunting |
| Shantel Siviebadan | 2025 | Navigating Queer Inclusivity In Publicly Funded Catholic Schools | Amelie Barras | Jay Ramasubramanyam |
| Anjali Subryan | 2026 | From the Charter to Instagram: Grassroots Harm Reduction and Legal Resistance in Toronto Against the Community Care and Recovery Act (2024) | Jessica Braimoh | Amelie Barras |
| Anthony Aquilina | 2026 | Violence in Sport: The Adversarial Contest from a Legal Plural Perspective | Claudio Colaguori | Amelie Barras |
| Ayma Amjad | 2026 | International Legal Responses to Genocide: Addressing Intergenerational Trauma in Palestine, Sudan, and Canada | Jay Ramasubramanyam | Safiyah Rochelle |
| Lauren Vilinsky | 2026 | Governing the Algorithm: Generative AI and the Reconfiguration of Intellectual Property Governance | Claudio Colaguori | Soren Frederiksen |
| Mika'il Kamran | 2026 | Professional Engineers Ontario: The Deskilling and Occupational Redirection of Internationally Educated Engineers in the Greater Toronto Area | Ethel Tungohan | Soma Chatterjee |
| Natalia Perez De La Cruz | 2026 | The Liberal Policing Institution: The Case of York University Policing its pro-Palestinian Student Activism | Laura Kwak | Jessica Braimoh |
| Natasha Khan | 2026 | Performative Accountability: State Apologies and the Reproduction of Anti-Muslim Surveillance in Canada in the Maher Arar Case | Laura Kwak | Nadia Hasan |
| Sarah Al Naqeeb | 2026 | Prisoner Justice Memorial Day: Commemorating Wrongful Deaths in Correctional Institutions | Amelie Barras | Maggie Quirt |
| Shree Brown | 2026 | The Impact of Structural Adjustment Policies on Jamaican and Mexican Societies: The Community Don System and Narco-Trafficking as Manifestations of Neoliberal Violence within the Framework of Neocolonialism. | Sonya Scott | Antulio Rosales |
| Name | Class Of | Dissertation | Supervisor | Committee member | Committee member |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | Livy Visano | Jay Goulding | Ian Greene |
| Matthew McManus | 2017 | Becoming to Belong: Rethinking Democratic Freedom and the Rule of Law | Annie Bunting | Sara Horowitz | Benjamin Berger |
| 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 | Annie Bunting | Sara Horowitz | Benjamin Berger |
| Katrin Roots | 2018 | The Human Trafficking Matrix: Law, Policy and the Front-Line Anti-Trafficking Practices in Canada | Anna Pratt | Annie Bunting | Alan Young |
| Daniel Huizenga | 2019 | Customary Law and Indigenous Rights in South Africa: From Transformative Constitutionalism to Living Law in Struggles for Rural Land Rights | Rosemary Coombe | David Szablowski | Annie Bunting |
| 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 | Carmela Murdocca | James Williams | Amanda Glasbeek |
| Sajjad Malik | 2021 | Conjunctures in Law and Development: Assemblages for Progress in Indian Agricultural Futures | Rosemary Coombe | Saptarishi Bandopadhyay | David Szablowski |
| Emily Lockhart | 2023 | "Navigating Intimate Image Sharing: Youth Experiences with Technology-Mediated Sexuality in a New Legal Landscape“ | Annie Bunting | Amanda Glasbeek | Lara Karaian |
| Palmer Taylor | 2023 | "Governing Data Packets and the Web: A Socio-Legal Narratology of Net Neutrality Debates in the U.S., 2017–2020“ | Jacqueline Krikorian | Annie Bunting | Miriam Smith |
| Jessica Templeman | 2023 | Deciding To Deport: Considering Collateral Immigration Consequences in Ontario Based Courts | Carmela Murdocca | James Williams | Dagmar |
| 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". | Annie Bunting | Kurasawa Fuyuki | Anna Agathangelou |
| Melissa Anderson | 2024 | A Socio-Legal Critique on Denials, Delays and Barriers to Care: Health Care Access for Medically Uninsured Migrants in Toronto & Edmonton | Dagmar Soennecken | Amar Bhatia | Ethel Tungohan |
| Mathew Montevirgen | 2024 | Realizing Reconciliation: Analyzing Resource Revenue Sharing Agreements And Indigenous-Settler Relations In Ontario's Mining Industry | David Szablowski | Carmela Murdocca | Karen Drake |
| Natilie Richer | 2026 | SHOW, DON'T TELL: DISPLAYING DECOLONIAL PRACTICE THROUGH RESEARCH-CREATION | Amanda Glasbeek | Mathew Tegelberg | Allyson Lunny |
| Oleksandra Huzik | 2026 | Transplanting Canadian Juvenile Probation Into The Ukrainian Context: A Comparative Analysis And Policy Framework Development For Juvenile Justice Reform | Annie Bunting, Jacqueline Krikorian | Amelie Barras | Jessica Braimoh |
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