Faculty Supervisors
Please find below a list of available supervisors for the 2027/2028 academic year and the research areas they are able to accept candidates for.
NOTE: Our Admission process does not require or expect previous connection with a prospective supervisor. Successful candidates will be connected with an available supervisor during the admission process.
All application questions should be directed to the Graduate Administrative Coordinator at lawgrad@dal.ca
| Faculty Member Name | Degree Interesting to Supervise | Areas of Supervision |
| Bisi Akinkugbe | LLM, PhD | issues in and at the intersection of international trade law, international investment law, sovereign debt, international financial institutions, especially as they relate to Africa and the Global South. as well as projects on the rule of law and democracy and the role of national and regional courts in Africa |
| Kim Brooks | LLM, PhD | tax law and policy, legal education, and comparative law |
| Maria Dugas | LLM | critical race theory and criminal law |
| Suzie Dunn | LLM | intimate image laws, content moderation laws, technology facilitated harms, privacy |
| Matthew Dylag | LLM, PhD | all areas related to access to justice, legal needs, and civil procedure. He is also interested in projects examining the impact of technology on justice and the justice sector. |
| Lucie Guibault | LLM, PhD | intellectual property law and certain aspects of law and technology - to be determined on a case-by-case basis |
| Sarah Harding | projects relating to cultural heritage law, comparative constitutional law, and property law and theory | |
| Adelina Iftene | LLM, PhD | n/a |
| Colin Jackson | LLM, PhD | tax law and policy, as well as Canadian insolvency law, access to justice, and legal pluralism |
| Archie Kaiser | LLM | mental disability law, and criminal law |
| Michael Karanicolas | LLM, PhD | most areas related to law and technology, including a particular focus on freedom of expression and the human rights impact of new technologies, as well as broader questions around constitutional governance, digital sovereignty, and democracy |
| Jodi Lazare | Family Law, Constitutional Law, Animal Law. | |
| Jennifer Llewellyn | LLM, PhD | engage restorative justice as a relational theory and approach to justice, including its implications for law, legal institutions, public policy, governance, and institutional or systemic change. Her interests include feminist relational theory; gender-based, domestic, and family violence; complex and systemic harms; transitional justice and peacebuilding; class actions and collective redress; and a restorative approach to human rights promotion and protection. She is also interested in projects exploring the application of a restorative approach to justice within public institutions and sectors such as criminal justice, child welfare, education, and sport. |
| Constance MacIntosh | LLM, PhD | areas related to asylum and migration law, and policy, especially Canadian or comparative work, as well as health law and policy especially as it concerns migrant populations and intersectional populations |
| Andrew Martin | LLM, PhD | all areas of legal ethics, except in legal theory or in law and philosophy, as well as selected topics in public law |
| Liam McHugh-Russell | LLM, PhD | projects focused on labour and employment law (including international and transnational labour law), corporate governance, law and development, global governance, transnational law, socio-legal theory or legal research methods. He is also willing to supervise select projects concerned with interactions between law and other fields of knowledge, the role of knowledge in law, politics and governance, and how law shapes knowledge institutions, including universities, statistical agencies, and the press |
| Naiomi Metallic | LLM | areas of Aboriginal and Indigenous law, constitutional law and human rights |
| Anthony Rosborough | LLM, PhD | areas related to technology, intellectual property, competition law, and consumer law. He is particularly interested in projects relating to user innovation, democratisation of technology, and the right to repair |
