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BACKHOUSE, Constance »
Full professor
Faculty of Law
Common Law
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Office: 613-562-5800 (3307)
E-mail: backhous@uOttawa.ca
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Office Telephone
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The history of Canadian law relating to sex discrimination, racism and class bias. The criminal justice system. Canadian human rights law.
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BEHIELS, Michael D. »
Emeritus professor
Faculty of Arts
History
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Office: 613-562-5800 (1305)
Home: 613-837-9483
E-mail: mbehiel@uOttawa.ca
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E-mail, Home Telephone
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I am a political, constitutional, intellectual historian who deals with Canadian political and constitutional matters since 1945. I am a specialist in Canadian federalism, federal-provincial relations with a special emphasis on Ottawa-Quebec relations, nationalisms as expressed in Canada, francophone-anglophone relations, and the development of Canada's Francophone minority communities
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- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- Aboriginal legal issues
- Bilingualism
- Canadian constitution
- Canadian history
- Canadian politics
- Canadian studies
- Constitution
- Constitutional law
- Democracy and democratization
- Federalism
- Human rights
- Human rights
- Minority languages
- Quebec politics
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English and French
COLLINS, Lynda »
Associate professor
Faculty of Law, Common Law Section
Common Law
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Office: 613-562-5800 (2913)
Cell: 613-612-8880
Home: 613-234-8886
E-mail: lcollins@uOttawa.ca
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Professor Collins is an expert in legal approaches to toxic substances, including environmental negligence, constitutional environmental rights under the Canadian Charter, and the international law of environmental human rights. Professor Collins has testified in public hearings at the House and Senate Standing environment committees and at the European Parliament, and has participated by invitation in a number of UN consultative processes concerning the right to a healthy environment and the right to water.
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DENIS, Claude »
Full professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Sociology
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Office: 613-562-5800 ext 3604
Office: 613-562-5800 ext 7144
E-mail: cldenis@uOttawa.ca
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My research deals primarily with the political sociology of Canada and Mexico. On Canada, I have worked on the country’s competing nationalisms, aboriginal rights and politics, on federal politics, and on francophone rights. On Mexico, I work on the democracy, aboriginal rights and human rights. I have also studied borders, including with regard to Russia’s war on Ukraine. My work often focusses on the relationship between law and politics, and media and politics.Area(s) of expertise:
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- Aboriginal legal issues
- Canadian politics
- Canadian studies
- Constitution
- Democracy and democratization
- Human rights
- Political communications
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English and French
ELGIE, Stewart »
Professor
Associate professor
Faculty of Law
Common Law
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Office: 613-562-5800 (2525)
E-mail: selgie@uOttawa.ca
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E-mail, Office Telephone
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Environmental / natural resources law and policy, including forests, wildlife (species), parks, pollution, and climate change / global warming (Kyoto). Environmental economics, and economic approaches to environmental protection (especially for climate change). The Constitution and the environment. Aboriginal rights and the environment. International trade and the environment (NAFTA).
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- Aboriginal legal issues
- Administrative law
- Constitutional law
- Environmental economics
- Environmental law
- Global warming
- International environmental law
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GILBERT, Daphne »
Assistant professor
Faculty of Law
Common Law
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Office: 613-562-5800 (3306)
E-mail: daphne.gilbert@uOttawa.ca
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Criminal and constitutional law. Equality rights and freedom of expression (obscenity, pornography and child pornography laws). Comparative constitutional law and the export of Canadian jurisprudential principles to other countries. Criminal law with a focus on laws around sex crimes (polygamy, prostitution, sexual assault, incest, child abuse). Privacy, anonymity, identity in law. Feminism, gender and social justice. American/United States equality and freedom of expression laws.
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- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- Aboriginal legal issues
- Animal rights
- Constitutional law
- Criminal law
- Disability law
- Gender discrimination
- Health law
- Human rights
- Privacy
- Women and law
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English only
RUPARELIA, Rakhi »
Assistant professor
Faculty of Law
Common Law
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Office: 613-562-5800 ext. 3324
E-mail: rruparel@uOttawa.ca
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I specialize in issues of race and racism, both within and outside of legal systems. I also teach and research in the areas of torts and criminal law, particularly in the context of women and racialized communities.
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- Aboriginal criminality
- Aboriginal legal issues
- Criminal law
- Drugs
- Gender discrimination
- Police
- Race
- Racism
- Sentencing
- Torts
- Violence against women
- Women and law
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English only
THERIAULT, Sophie »
Associate professor
Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section
Civil Law
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Office: 613-562-5800 (3914)
E-mail: sophie.theriault@uottawa.ca
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The relationship between the territorial rights of indigenous people and food security, the duty to consult Aboriginal peoples , especially in the context of natural resource extraction on the environmental justice and post , as well as the links between environmental degradation and human rights.
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- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- Aboriginal legal issues
- Environmental law
- Human rights
- Sustainable development
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English and French
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