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.
Delano Aragao Vaz
PhD Candidate
Abebe Assefa Alemu
PhD Candidate
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.
Aileen Editha
PhD Candidate in Law
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.
Wondwossen Firew
PhD Candidate
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.
Marie-Emmanuelle Genesse
PhD Candidate
“Public Health Law and Intimate Partner Violence in Canada: Needs and Legal Responses”
Michele Leering
Visiting Scholar
Michele is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Law, Queens University. Her thesis documents the imperatives for legal education reform, specifically the contribution of “Reflective Practice” as a professional learning theory of benefit to legal educators, law students, and legal practitioners. Her research compares approaches in Canadian and Australian law schools in traditional law and experiential learning courses.
Mary McPherson
PhD Candidate in Law
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.
Hiwot Mekuanent
PhD Candidate
Ryan Minor
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.
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.
João Rocha
PhD Candidate
João Carlos Vieira Costa Cavalcanti Rocha is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Law, Queen’s University. His dissertation explores the normative democratic theory and constitutional law, including comparative perspectives.
He obtained an LLM at Queen’s University in 2019. His thesis revolved around an authoritarian era in the history of Brazil – the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas – and its relationship with anti-liberal legal thought.