Contributors

Mariful Alam is a Toronto-based musician, union organizer, and doctoral student at York University. His research interests focus on critical theories of law and state violence, political policing and surveillance, and social movement mobilization.

Timothy Bryan is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His primary research interests include the policing of hate crime, race and racism, and criminal justice reform in Canada. His work has appeared in the Journal of Hate Studies, the Oñati Socio-legal Series, and the Canadian Journal of Law & Society. He has also conducted policy research for the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police and Nova Scotia’s Department of Justice.

Nergis Canefe (PhD, SJD) is a professor of political science, public policy, and law at York University. Her areas of expertise are international public law and ethics, mass human suffering—including war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide—the global politics of dispossession, transitional justice, memory and trauma, and critical citizenship studies. Her latest book is Crimes Against Humanity: The Limits of Universal Jurisdiction in the Global South (University of Wales Press, 2021).

Irina Ceric is an assistant professor at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law and holds a PhD from Osgoode Hall Law School. She is a former criminal defence and clinical lawyer, as well as a long-time activist legal support organizer. Ceric’s research interests lie at the intersection of law and social movements, with a particular focus on the regulation and criminalization of dissent by movements for social and environmental justice and Indigenous sovereignty.

Stacy Douglas is an associate professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She has published work on constitutionalism and legal theory in Law and Critique, Law, Culture, and the Humanities, the Australian Feminist Law Journal, and Feminist Legal Studies. Her book, Curating Community: Museums, Constitutionalism, and the Taming of the Political (University of Michigan Press, 2017), argues against the centrality of sovereignty in our political and juridical imaginations. Her current work explores narratives of law’s violence in popular culture as well as activist campaigns for individuals facing extraordinary charges.

Patrick Dwyer is a PhD candidate in the socio-legal studies program at York University. His dissertation research examines how knowledge about prisoners’ deaths in federal penitentiaries is produced. His research interests include socio-legal theory, the sociology of punishment, the governance of mental health, risk management, crime prediction technologies and governing practices, and state accountability.

Yavar Hameed is a human rights lawyer and a sessional lecturer in Carleton University’s Department of Law and Legal Studies. Since September 11, 2001, he has represented clients in national security investigations by CSIS, the seizure of assets by the RCMP in anti-terrorism cases, the listing of a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code, immigration security certificate cases, and racial profiling complaints relating to national security policing.

Emily Lockhart is a socio-legal scholar whose research lies in the areas of critical youth studies, feminist legal studies, and critical sexuality studies. She is interested in the legal and moral regulation of sexuality, young peoples’ technology-mediated sexualities, youth legal consciousness, and legal mobilization.

Alex Luscombe is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. His research interests include policing studies, social inequality, freedom of information law, and computational social science. He is coeditor of Freedom of Information and Social Science Research Design (Routledge, 2019) and Changing of the Guards: Private Influences, Privatization, and Criminal Justice in Canada (University of British Columbia Press, 2022).

Jeffrey Monaghan is an associate professor of criminology and sociology at Carleton University in Ottawa. His research examines practices of security governance, policing, and surveillance. He is the author of Security Aid: Canada and the Development Regime of Security (2017) and the coauthor, with Andrew Crosby, of Policing Indigenous Movements: Dissent and the Security State (2018) as well as the coeditor, with Lucas Melgaço, of Protests in the Information Age: Social Movements, Digital Practices and Surveillance (2018) and, with Kelly Fritsch and Emily van der Meulen, of Disability Injustice: Confronting Criminalization in Canada (2022).

Carmela Murdocca is the York Research Chair in Reparative and Racial Justice and a professor in the Department of Sociology at York University. She is appointed to graduate programs in sociology, socio-legal studies, and social and political thought. She has been a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia University’s law school. Her research examines the intersections of racialization, criminalization, and the social and legal politics of restorative justice, redress, and reparations.

Katrin Roots is an assistant professor in the department of criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her work examines the carceral focus of Canada’s anti-trafficking efforts. She is the author of The Domestication of Human Trafficking: Law, Policing and Prosecution in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2023) and the author or coauthor of numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on trafficking law, enforcement, and policing technologies.

Heather Tasker is a PhD candidate in the socio-legal studies program at York University. Her research explores gendered conceptions of harm and justice in conflict-affected and post-conflict contexts. Her dissertation focuses on community responses to sexual exploitation and abuse committed by MONUSCO peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Through her work with the Conjugal Slavery in War (CSiW) partnership, she has conducted collaborative research on the rights and needs of children born of war, experiences of harm and access to justice for survivors of forced marriage in conflict, and the development of international criminal law around sexual and gender-based violence.

Shaira Vadasaria is a lecturer in race and decolonial studies in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. Her research and teaching draw on interdisciplinary and methodologically driven thought that is attentive to race, law, and social regulation under imperial rule and settler-colonial nation building, with close attention to Israel and Palestine. She currently serves as codirector of RACE.ED, a university-wide research and teaching hub concerned with the study of race, racialization, and decoloniality, which she cofounded. Some of her publications can be found in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, Critical Studies on Security, and Oñati Socio-legal Series, as well as in edited volumes including Gaza on Screen (Duke University Press, 2023).

Kevin Walby is an associate professor in the criminal justice program at the University of Winnipeg. He is the coauthor of Police Funding, Dark Money, and the Greedy Institution (Routledge, 2022) as well as the coeditor of Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada (Between the Lines, 2022) and Changing of the Guards: Private Influences, Privatization, and Criminal Justice in Canada (University of British Columbia Press, 2022). He is the director of the Centre for Access to Information and Justice and the coeditor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons.