AV俱乐部

Bio

Prof. Michelle Williams B.S.W. (Dal), LL.B. (Tor), LL.M. (NYU) teaches criminal law and African聽Nova聽Scotians and the law and has served as an academic researcher on restorative justice. She served as a AV俱乐部 Provost Fellow and continues to co-lead the University鈥檚 African Nova Scotian Strategy. She served as the inaugural chair of Schulich鈥檚 Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee. She served as Director of the award-winning Indigenous Blacks and Mi鈥檏maq (IB&M) Initiative (2004-2020) and is a member of the聽African Nova Scotian Access to Justice聽Judicial Committee, Watershed Legal Projects Board 聽(formerly Canadian Centre for Legal Innovation in Sexual Assault Response (CCLISAR), and the African Nova Scotian UN Decade for People of African Descent (ANSDPAD) Coalition. In the latter capacity she worked with the Coalition鈥檚 Justice Strategy Working Group on a range of legal issues including eradicating street checks, the use of African Nova Scotian Impact of Race and Cultural Assessments (IRCAs), and the establishment of the African Nova Scotian Justice Institute (ANSJI).

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• Criminal Law ()
• African Nova Scotians and the Law ()
  
• Law in National and International Context
• African Nova Scotian Legal History & issues and Critical Race Theory (ANS/CRT)

Research interests

Professor Williams' research interests include critical race theory and praxis, critical race feminism, African Nova Scotian Law, research ethics and understanding African Nova Scotians as a distinct people, and the practice of domestic and global public interest law.