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Recent research

2026 Journal articles & chapters

2025 Books

  • Robert Yalden, Janis P Sarra, Paul Patton, Mark R Gillen, Mary Condon, Carol Liao, Michael Deturbide, Mohamed Khimji, Bradley Bryan & Gary Campo, Business Organizations: Practice, Theory and Emerging Challenges, 3rd ed (Emond Montgomery, 2025)

  • Tracey Lindberg, Cree Word for Love: Sakihitown (Toronto: HarperCollins Canada, 2025)

  • Rebecca Johnson, Debra McKenzie, Val Napoleon & Emily Snyder, Ravens Talking: Indigenous Feminist Legal Studies (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2025)

  • Kent McNeil co-authored the book Deciding on Death: Rodriguez, Carter, and Medically Assisted Dying in Canada with Wayne Sumner. Vancouver, UBC Press (2025)

  • David Milward & Jonathan Rudin, Indigenous Law & Canadian Criminal Justice (Toronto: Emond, 2025)
  • Val Napolean & Debra McKenzie, eds, Intersocietal Pedagogies (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2025)

2025 Journal articles & chapters

  • Funmilola Ayotunde, “Multi-Stakeholder Participation in Biodiversity and Nature Conservation in MENA Region” in Damilola Olawuyi & Riyad Fakhri, eds, Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Law and Policy in the Middle East and North Africa Region (Cambridge University Press, 2025) 316
  • Funmilola Ayotunde, “Rights-Based Approach to Consultation with Indigenous Peoples in Canada” in Paul Haslam et al, eds, Contested Consultations in the Extractive Industries: Rights, Processes, and Tensions (London, UK: Routledge, 2025)
  • Bradley Bryan, “First Nation Business Structures” in Business Organizations: Practice, Theory and Emerging Practices, eds. R. Yalden et al. (Toronto: Emond, 2025) (co-authored with Frankie Young)
  • Deborah Curran, Sarah Hunt / Tłaliła’ogwa & D Scott, “Anti-Colonial Imperatives for Transforming Environmental Law: From Environment to Ecology and Rights Relationships” (forthcoming) Justice, Ecology, Law and Place
  • Maneesha Deckha, “Wildlife and ARTs” (2025) 7:1 Journal of Applied Animal Ethics Research 1
  • Maneesha Deckha et al, “Accelerating Animal Replacement: How Universities Can Lead — Results of a One-Day Expert Workship in Zurich, Switzerland” (2025) 53:2 Alternatives to Laboratory Animals 106
  • Maneesha Deckha, "Inaugurating the Journal of Animal Rights Law” (2025) 1:1 Journal of Animal Rights Law 1-17 (1 of 16 authors)
  • Maneesha Deckha, “Editorial: Introduction” (2025) Special Issue: Critical Perspectives on Animal Experimentation, Journal of Animal Law, Ethics, and One Health, 1-4
  • Maneesha Deckha, “Beyond Narratives of Newness, Abandonment, Loss, and Return: An Emergent Discussion between Feminist New Materialisms, Posthumanities and Intersectionality” in New Materialisms and Intersectionality: Making Middles Matter (New York: Routledge, 2025) 107

  • Maneesha Deckha with co-author Alexa Powell, “Bending the Rules: Including Animals in a Substantive Account of the Rule of Law” in 70:3 McGill Law Journal.

  • Maneesha Deckha,  “Animals, Colonialism, and the Rule of Law” (2025) 29:3 Review of Constitutional Studies 523-548
  • Maneesha Deckha, "Accelerating Animal Replacement: How Universities Can Lead — Results of a One-Day Expert Workshop in Zurich, Switzerland” (2025) 53:2 Alternatives to Laboratory Animals 106-118 (lead author)

  • Maneesha Deckha, “A Child’s Right to Non-Anthropocentric Education: A New Way to Think about Art. 14 of the EU Charter” in Animal Rights: The Role of the EU Charter edited by Ester Herlin-Karnell & Matilda Arvidsson (Verfassungsbooks, 2025)

  • Christy Juteau, Harley Chappell Xwopokton, Sarah Marie Wiebe & Robert Lapper, “The beaty underneath: A critical coastal governance approach to revitalize Indigenous shellfish harvest” 174 Marine Policy (2025)
  • Robert Lapper, Medina Abdelkader & Will O’Hanley, “I’m Having Trouble Seeing this as a Design Problem – Design Thinking for Law Students
  • Robert Lapper, published a chapter “Hidden Impacts of Judicial Decision Making” in a collection of essays written by faculty at the UVic School of Public Administration: Transforming Public Administration in Canada - An Exploration of Social Equity in Research, Practice and Teaching. 
  • Darcy Lindberg, “Nêhiyaw Pimatisiwin and Regenerative Constitutionalism” (forthcoming) Review of Constitutional Studies
  • Geoffrey Loomer, “Chapter 6: Canada” in Florian Haase, ed, Taxation of International Partnerships, 2nd ed (Amsterdam: IBFD, 2025) 141
  • Val Napoleon, “Indigenous Women Talking: The Work of Indigenous Feminism in the World” in Rebecca Johnson, Debra McKenzie, Val Napoleon & Emily Snyder, Ravens Talking: Indigenous Feminist Legal Studies (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2025)
  • Val Napoleon, “Taking Indigenous Law Seriously as Law” in João Figueiredo & Sebastian Spitra, eds, The Missing Legal Pluralism of Heritage: Reconnecting Law and Material Culture with Marginalized and Indigenous Normative Knowledge (Muenster University, forthcoming)
  • Val Napoleon, “Thinking Across Legal Divides” in Val Napoleon et al, eds, Intersocietal Pedagogies (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming)
  • Val Napoleon, “An Imaginary for Our Sisters” in Jeffery Hewitt & Richard Moon, eds, Indigenous Spiritual Collection (forthcoming)
  • Val Napoleon, “Expand the Boundaries of the Legal Universe and Place Indigenous Legal Decision-Making at its Center” (2025) 5:1 Legalities 58

  • Victor V Ramraj, “Confronting Global Complexity and Crisis: Lessons from the ‘Nomic Din’ in Southeast Asia” in Ngoc Son Bui & Munin Pongsapan, eds., Comparative Law in Asia: Essays in Honor of Andrew Harding (London: Bloomsbury/Hart Publishing, 2025), 25-38.

  • Victor V Ramraj, “Constitutional Ambition and Humility in an Age of Extremes” 11:2 Constitutional Studies: Constitutionalism in the Age of Extremes (2025)
  • Maartje De Visser, Victor V Ramraj & Qian Liu, “Law, Politics, and the Academy in Asia: Navigating Constraints as Public Law Scholars” (2025) Asian Journal of Law and Society 1
  • Chris Tollefson, KC & Anthony Ho, “Environmental Regulation and Regulatory Takings” in D Williamson, G Lynch-Wood & A Prochorskaite, eds, Research Handbook on Environmental Regulation (London, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025)
  • Estair Van Wagner, “The Rights of Unhoused Indigenous People: Linking the Right to Housing and Indigenous Rights in Canadian Responses to Encampments” in A Lund & S Buhler, eds, Legal Unhousing (forthcoming) 

2024 Books

  • Val Napoleon, Rebecca Johnson, Richard Overstall & Debra McKenzie, eds, Indigenous Intellectual Property: An Interrupted Intergenerational Conversation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2024) 

2024 Journal articles & chapters

  • Bradley Bryan, “Hybridity and Precarious Personhood: Limited Partnerships, First Nations, and Indigenous Economic Development” (2024) 46:7 Man LJ 81
  • Gillian Calder, “‘The Winter We Danced’: Emotion, Embodiment and Indigenous Legal Orders in the Canadian Constitutional Law Classroom” in Mallika Kaur & Lindsay M Harris, eds, How to Account for Trauma and Emotions in Law Teaching (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024) 74
  • Gillian Calder & Rebecca Johnson, “Frames, Fiends, Feelings and Family: Succession’s Affect and the Law School Classroom” (2024) 73:3 DePaul Law Review 805
  • Kathryn Chan, “The Registered Charity Appeals Process: More Reasons (and a few Proposals) for Reform” (2024) 72:2 Canadian Tax Journal 359
  • Kathryn Chan, “Time for a Pluralist Approach? Judicial Review of Non-State Decision Makers in Canada” (2024) 74 University of Toronto Law Journal 243
  • Maneesha Deckha, “Feminist Legal Systems that Benefit Animals” in Chloë Taylor, ed, Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals (Routledge, 2024) 218
  • Robert Howell and Colton Dennis, The Implementation of UNDRIP; Legal Dimensions of Indigenous Peoples’ Cultural Heritage and Property in Canada (2024), 61:4 Alberta Law Review 741
  • Rebecca Johnson, “Testify! Reflections on Cultural Legal Studies and Indigenous Legal Orders” in Karen Crawley, Thomas Giddens & Timothy D Peters, eds, Routledge Handbook of Cultural Legal Studies (New York: Routledge, 2024) 75
  • Rebecca Johnson, “Legal Reimaginations – Notes from the North on engaging with Indigenous Legal Orders” 35:2 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 378
  • Val Napoleon, “Indigenous Citizenship and Civil Society: An Intervention” (2024) 1 Perspectives: A Broadbent Institute Journal
  • Val Napoleon, “Comparative Perspectives: Engaging Productively Across Legal Orders” (2024) 98 Australian Law Journal (special edition, May) 1
  • Val Napoleon, “The Octopus: What Might Constitute Indigenous Intellectual Property” in Val Napoleon, Rebecca Johnson, Richard Overstall & Debra McKenzie, eds, Indigenous Intellectual Property: An Interrupted Intergenerational Conversation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2024) 15
  • Val Napoleon, “Public Faces: Indigenous Law Today and Through the Futuristic Looking Glass” in Eoin Carolan, Jason NE Varuhas & Sarah Fullham-McQuillan, eds, The Making and Re-making of Public Law (Ireland: Hart, 2024)
  • Sara Ramshaw, “Fitzpatrick and the Feminine Law” (2024) 20:3 Law, Culture, and the Humanities (special edition, Essays in Honour of Peter Fitzpatrick) 519
  • Sara Ramshaw, “Conclusion: Subverting the Law and Humanities Canon” in Daniel Newman & Russel Sandberg, eds, Law and Humanities (Anthem Press, 2024) 225
  • Estair Van Wagner & Alexandra Flynn, “Human Rights Cities: Realizing the Right to Housing at the Municipal Scale” (2024) 57 University of British Columbia Law Review 235
  • Estair Van Wagner, Sarah Morales & Michael Ekers, “From ‘Private’ Managed Forest Lands to Sts’lunuts’amat Forest Relations: Indigneous Jurisdiction, Ecological Integrity, and Fee Simple Title on Vancouver Island” (2024) 1 Ecology, Law and Place 5