Stuart O’Connell is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Law, Queen’s University. His thesis “Expanding the Role of Victims in Criminal Proceedings” examines whether the role and function of victims in Canadian criminal proceedings should significantly expand and, if so, how that change might occur.
Stuart is a Toronto-based lawyer with extensive trial experience. He has taught more than a dozen different university and college law courses, including courses in criminal law, constitutional law, legal ethics, and privacy. He was part of the full-time teaching faculty at the Faculty of Common Law, University of Ottawa. He is an adjudicator on a federal administrative tribunal (Governor in Council appointment).
Stuart received his Juris Doctor from the University of British Columbia; articled for one of Canada's leading criminal defence lawyers (and Queen’s alumnus) Alan D. Gold; and attended Osgoode Hall’s graduate program in law on a full scholarship.
Field of Research: Victims' Rights
Title of thesis: “Expanding the Role of Victims in Criminal Proceedings”
Thesis Supervisor: Benjamin Ewing