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Our faculty members engage in scholarly work on the cutting edge of legal issues relevant to our local, national, and international communities. Their research is used by lawyers, courts, legislative bodies and policy-makers across the country, and is published in leading journals and books by renowned presses. Here are some of the latest books published by our professors.

Books written by faculty authors

Faculty Books

Anderson, Kjell

Perpetrating Genocide, a criminological account, front cover.

Perpetrating Genocide: A Criminological Account

London: Routledge (2018).

“Focusing on the relationship between the micro level of perpetrator motivation and the macro level normative discourse, this book offers an in-depth explanation for the perpetration of genocide. It is the first comparative criminological treatment of genocide drawn from original field research, based substantially on the author’s interviews with perpetrators and victims of genocide and mass atrocities, combined with wide-ranging secondary and archival sources.” - Publisher’s description (excerpt).
Researching Perpetrators of Genocide, Critical Human Rights front cover

Researching Perpetrators of Genocide Edited

Co-authored by Erin Jesse.

"Researchers often face significant and unique ethical and methodological challenges when conducting qualitative field work among people who have been identified as perpetrators of genocide. This can include overcoming biases that often accompany research on perpetrators; conceptualizing, identifying, and recruiting research subjects; risk mitigation and negotiating access in difficult contexts; self-care in conducting interviews relating to extreme violence; and minimizing harm for interviewees who may themselves be traumatized." - Publisher's description (excerpt).

Baskatawang, Leo

Gibson, Dale

Front Cover of Dale Gibson's Law, Life, and Government at Red River, Volume 1

Law, Life and Government at Red River, Volume 1: Settlement and Governance 1812 – 1872

Forward by Jim Phillips. McGill University Press (2015).

“In Law, Life, and Government at Red River, Dale Gibson provides rich, revealing glimpses into the community, and its complex relations with the Hudson’s Bay: the colony’s owner, and primary employer. Volume 1 details the history of the settlement’s establishment, development, and ambivalent relationship with the legal and undemocratic, but gradually, grudgingly, slightly, more representative, governmental institutions forming in the area, and the legal system’s evolving engagement with the Aboriginal population.” - Publisher’s description (excerpt).
Front Cover of Dale Gibson's Law, Life, and Government at Red River, Volume 2

Law, Life and Government at Red River, Volume 2: General Quarterly Court of Assiniboia, Annotated Records, 1844-1872

McGill University Press (2015).

“In Law, Life, and Government at Red River, Dale Gibson provides rich, revealing glimpses into the community, and its complex relations with the Hudson’s Bay: the colony’s owner, and primary employer. Volume 2 provides a complete annotated, and never-before-published transcription of testimony from Red River’s courts, presenting hundreds of vignettes of frontier life, the cases that were brought before the courts, and the ways in which the courts resolved conflicts.” - Publisher’s description (excerpt).

Gunn, Brenda

Front cover of Brenda Gunn's Renewing Relationships

Renewing Relationships: Indigenous Peoples and Canada

Co-edited with Karen Drake. Wiyasiwewin Mikiwahp Native Law Centre, University of Saskatchewan (2019).

“This edited collection features essays by Indigenous legal academics from across Canada. Some Indigenous nations might embrace principles of reconciliation, while others reject the concept and instead advocate for resistance or decolonization. This collection builds on existing literature that addresses issues such as the inclusion of Indigenous laws, self-determination, and the role of the constitution.” - Publisher’s description (excerpt).

Harvey, Cameron

Jochelson, Richard

Front cover of Richard Jochelson's book, Criminal Law and Precrime

Criminal Law and Precrime: Legal Studies in Punishment and Surveillance in Anticipation of Criminal Guilt

Routledge (2017) Co-authored with James Gacek, Lauren Menzie, Kirsten Kramar and Mark Doerksen.

“The book is a provocative read for scholars and students in criminal law, policing, and surveillance, as well as for those interested in how areas of law, such as immigration, health, and anti-terrorism, are mobilizing the logics of risk and surveillance in new ways that emphasize precaution. The authors invite legal scholars to place the analytical lens of precrime on criminal and regulatory practices in Canada as well as other Western nations across the globe.” - Publisher’s description (excerpt).
Front cover of Richard Jochelson's book, Sexual Regulation and the Law: a Canadian Perspective

Sexual Regulation and the Law: a Canadian Perspective

Co-edited with James Gacek. Demeter Press (2019).

“This collection is founded upon the editors’ joint experiences in teaching in law and society programs in Canada. The authors have witnessed cobbled together curriculums which rely upon a potpourri of sources from law, criminology, criminal justice and law and society disciplines. There exists a growing interest from university students and legal scholars alike for a reader in the context of law reform and legal change in respect of sexual politics and movements in Canada, especially in the context of more modern iterations of crime and sexual politics.” - Publisher’s description

MacPherson, Darcy

Schulz, Jennifer L.

Cover image of Dr. Schulz's A Transnational Study of Law and justice on TV.

A Transnational Study of Law and Justice on TV

Co-edited with Peter Robson. Hart Publishing (2016).

“This collection examines law and justice on television in different countries around the world. It provides a benchmark for further study of the nature and extent of television coverage of justice in fictional, reality and documentary forms. It does this by drawing on empirical work from a range of scholars in different jurisdictions. Each chapter looks at the raw data of how much "justice" material viewers were able to access in the multi-channel world of 2014 looking at three phases: apprehension (police), adjudication (lawyers), and disposition (prison/punishment)…. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in law, popular culture, TV, or justice and provides an important addition to the literature due to its grounding in empirical data.” – Publisher’s description (excerpt).

Front cover of Jennifer L. Schulz's Ethnicity, Gender, and Diversity

Ethnicity, Gender, and Diversity: Law and Justice on TV

Co-edited with Peter Robson USA: Lexington (2018).

“Television and streamed series that viewers watch on their TVs, computers, phones, and tablets are a crucial part of popular culture They have an influence on viewers and on law. People acquire values, behaviours, and stereotypes, both positive and negative, from television shows, which are relevant to people’s acquisition of beliefs and to the development of law. In this book, readers will find the first transnational, empirical look at ethnicity, gender, and diversity on legally-themed TV shows. Scholars determine the three most watched legally-themed shows in Brazil, Britain, Canada, Germany, Greece, Poland, Switzerland and the United States and then examine gender, age, ability, ethnicity, race, class, sexual orientation and nationality in those shows and countries. As such, this book provides an important link between law, TV, and what is going on in real life.” -Publisher’s description.

Front cover of Jennifer L. Schulz's Mediation and Popular Culture.

Mediation & Popular Culture

Routledge (2020).

“This book examines mediation topics such as impartiality, self-determination and fair outcomes through popular culture lenses. Popular television shows and award-winning films are used as illustrative examples to illuminate under-represented mediation topics such as feelings and expert intuition, conflicts of interest and repeat business, and deception and caucusing. The author also employs research from Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States of America to demonstrate that real and reel mediation may have more in common than we think. How mediation is imagined in popular culture, compared to how professors teach it and how mediators practise it, provides important affective, ethical, legal, personal and pedagogical insights relevant for mediators, lawyers, professors and students, and may even help develop mediator identity.” -Publisher’s description.

Short, Donn

The front cover of Dr. Donn Short's Book Don't Be so Gay

Don’t Be So Gay! Queers, Bullying, and Making Schools Safe

(Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013).

“Once viewed as an inevitable if unpleasant part of growing up, bullying is now recognized as a real threat to students’ physical and psychological well-being – particularly in light of recent teen suicides linked with homophobia in schools. Despite a shift in public attitudes and legislative responses to the problem, bullying remains a constant reality for many queer youth in Canadian schools.” – Publisher’s description.
Cover image of Dr. Short's book The Every Teacher Project

The Every Teacher Project on LGBTQ-Inclusive Education in Canada’s K-12 Schools with Catherine

Taylor & Tracey Peter & Elizabeth Meyer. (Winnipeg: Manitoba Teachers’ Society, 2015).

“This report presents the results of the online survey phase of the “Every Teacher Project” on Canadian K-12 educators’ perceptions and experiences of “LGBTQ-inclusive” education, including curriculum, policies, and practices that include positive and accurate information about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, Two Spirit, and queer people as well as issues related to gender and sexual diversity (also known as GSD-inclusive education).” –Publisher’s description.

Turnbull, Lorna

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