Oyindamola Aje
Building on her Master of Law (LLM) degree from Queen’s University, where she demonstrated her research competence and interests in Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) and its intersection with climate change, Oyindamola intends, through this doctorate program to delve deeper into studies of the ISDS mechanism, climate change, and sustainable investment. To contribute to the depth of scholarship in this field and create a sustainable future.
Graduate Student
Adewale Aladejare
PhD Candidate
Adewale is a PhD student at the Faculty of Law, Queen’s University. His thesis explores the interaction between the legal regime in International Trade Law and the right to development from the perspective of a developing country.
He holds a Bachelor of Laws from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria (2208) and a Master of Laws degree from the University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom (2013).
Graduate Student
Kuukuwa Andam
PhD Candidate
Kuukuwa Andam is a human rights lawyer, researcher, and academic. She has worked on human rights cases for more than a decade; including providing country conditions expertise for asylum cases in the US and UK, and recently defending twenty-one human rights activists who were arrested and incarcerated in Ho, Ghana, while attending a training conference. She has served as a research consultant, and organized training seminars for staff of multiple international organizations including UNFPA, UNESCO, and RFSU.
Graduate Student
Delano Aragao Vaz
PhD Candidate
Delano is currently a Ph.D. student in the Faculty of Law, Queen’s University. As an Ontario Trillium Scholarship holder, he is exploring the intersectionality of law and surveillance. His research focuses on socio-legal issues related to race, colonialism, big data, national security, and (suppression of) dissent.
Graduate Student
Abebe Assefa Alemu
Recent Graduate
Abebe Assefa Alemu (he/him) is a PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University, where his research focuses on the experiences of Deaf individuals within the Criminal Justice System in Ethiopia, under the supervision of professor Cherie Metcalf (PhD). His research interests include access to justice, criminal justice, disability rights, human rights, and women's rights.
Graduate Student
Lauraine Darkwah
PhD Candidate
Queen’s University has a track record of producing quality researchers who have an impact in their chosen field of research. I intend to tow the same line. As an Arbitration Practitioner in Ghana, I intend to broaden my scope in International Arbitration and contribute to the wealth of knowledge in the subject area proffered through scholarly work.
Graduate Student
Aileen Editha
PhD Candidate
Aileen (she/her) is a PhD Candidate and Robert Sutherland Fellow at the Faculty of Law and Graduate Inclusivity Fellow at the School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs. Her doctoral thesis explores the recognition of property rights over human biological and genetic materials and its impact on women and racialised minorities. However, she is interested in and has written on other topics such as transplantation and blood banking.
Graduate Student
Wondwossen Firew
Recent Graduate
Prior to becoming a Mastercard Foundation Fellow and joining Queen’s University Faculty of Law in 2019, Wondwossen Firew held a position as an Assistant Professor of Law at the School of Law of University of Gondar for 10 years. In addition to his academic post, he served the School of Law as its Dean. During the past six years, he held an administrative position, in addition to his academic position.
Graduate Student
Marie-Emmanuelle Genesse
PhD Candidate
Marie-Emmanuelle Genesse is a doctoral student at the Queen’s University Faculty of Law, specializing in intimate partner violence. Her research interests are situated at the intersections of public health policies, feminist legal theory and criminal law. Her work has drawn the attention of national and international organizations including Plan International, The Canadian Women’s Foundation and The United Nations (UN Women). Stemming from the realization that her own studies have taught her the importance of the democratization of research, she created The Sis (@the.sisofficial on TikTok and Instagram) in 2021. The community around this channel has grown to over 400K people from all over the world. For this contribution, she was recognized as one of the 15 most influential Quebecers of 2022.
Graduate Student
Michele Leering
Visiting Scholar
Michele is a Visiting Scholar at Queen’s Faculty of Law. Graduating with a PhD from Queen’s Law in 2023, she also served for almost four decades as a lawyer and the Executive Director of the Community Advocacy & Legal Centre, a non-profit community legal clinic in Belleville, Ontario. As a Visiting Scholar, she is pursuing two research and writing projects. The first advances her doctoral research findings on the importance of cultivating integrative reflective practice as an essential competency for legal professionals.
Sessional Instructor
Mary McPherson
PhD Candidate
Mary McPherson is currently pursuing her PhD in Law at Queen’s University. Her research explores liberal politics of recognition and its critiques in relation to the current changes in Canadian legislation and common law affecting Aboriginal peoples, and the role of Indigenous philosophical revitalization in these legislative and judicial changes.
Graduate Student
Hiwot Mekuanent
Recent Graduate
Hiwot joined the Queen's University Faculty of Law in September 2018. She will be applying her doctoral work at Queen’s Law to help improve the lives of people with disabilities. Admitted into the school’s PhD program as an “exceptional faculty leader” from the University of Gondar in Ethiopia, she has received a Mastercard Foundation Scholarship at Queen’s University to complete her studies. Hiwot’s research focuses on why Ethiopia still has disability discriminatory legal and institutional frameworks against international human rights standards.
Graduate Student
Ryan Minor
Recent Graduate
Ryan is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Law, Queens University. His primary research area concerns the use of the tax system to stimulate research and development in Canada. His thesis concerns the potential for Canada to enact a "patent box" under which firms that develop qualifying intellectual property are encouraged to commercialize the IP worldwide from Canada by a low tax rate. Patent boxes are common in Europe and empirical work on the effectiveness of such regimes is sparse.
Graduate Student
Zain Mookhi
PhD Candidate
Zain is a commercial litigator, called to the Bar in both Ontario and India. With over 12 years of experience, he specializes in commercial litigation, arbitration, and bankruptcy and insolvency. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Legal Sciences and an LLB from the University of Mumbai, as well as an LLM in International Business Law from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. He completed his articles at a full-service national firm in Toronto before being called to the bar in Ontario.
Graduate Student
Stuart O’Connell
PhD Candidate
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.
Graduate Student
Richard Obeng
PhD Candidate
Richard is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, Canada. His research and teaching interests focus on corporate law, corporate governance and securities regulations. His doctoral thesis, titled “Reforming the Legal and Regulatory Framework for the Protection of Minority Shareholders in Controlled Publicly Listed Companies in Ghana”, evaluates the effectiveness of the existing legal regime in Ghana and proposes reforms informed by comparative and international best practices.
Graduate Student
Deepti Panda
PhD Candidate
Deepti has been practicing as an Advocate at the commercial bar of the Bombay High Court since 2007. She has a broad commercial law practice in India, specializing in areas such as commercial litigation and arbitration, bankruptcy proceedings, partnership disputes, real estate and land matters, and estate and succession disputes. She has been appointed as an Arbitrator in over 30 cases by the Bombay High Court and has expertise in conducting civil trials before both courts and arbitration tribunals.
Graduate Student
Ryan Peterson
PhD Candidate
Ryan Peterson grew up in Northfield, Minnesota, and has always been curious about how communities make and experience law. His curiosity about communities led him to earn a J.D. from the University of Oregon, a master’s in political theory from Iowa State University, and an LL.M. from the University of British Columbia. Combing his areas of study, Ryan’s early work developed “Context Theory,” an idea that law can only be understood by paying attention to the real lives of the people who feel its effects.
Graduate Student
Adaeze Udeze
PhD Candidate
Adaeze Udeze holds a Master of Laws degree in International Human Rights Law and Development from London, United Kingdom where she graduated with Distinction. She is a dual-qualified lawyer licensed to practice law in Nigeria and Ontario, Canada. She was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2013 and was called to the Ontario Bar in 2023. Adaeze works with the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada as a decision-maker.
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