University of Ottawa

João Velloso

João Velloso is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa. He teaches sentencing and sanctioning, legal research methods, criminology, and socio-legal studies. He has a multidisciplinary background in law, criminology, sociology, anthropology, and communication. He holds a Master of Socio-legal Studies from the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Brazil and a Ph.D. in Criminology from the University of Ottawa. Mr. Velloso was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Droit Public (CRDP) of the Université de Montréal in 2014 and 2015, working on the criminalization of protesters during the G20 in Toronto (2010) and the 2012 Quebec student protests (Printemps Érable).

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Melisa Handl

Melisa Handl is an Argentine lawyer and a PhD student in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa (Canada). Her research interests include gender, development, qualitative research, and international human rights. She also completed a MA in International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (Canada). Melisa is currently investigating whether conditional cash transfers are contributing to greater gender equality in the context of Argentina, and intends to connect a top-down approach to international human rights with the experiences of actual beneficiary women on the ground.

https://cdp-hrc.uottawa.ca/en/people/handl-melisa

Fedora Mathieu

Fedora Mathieu is a Haitian-Canadian Immigration and Refugee lawyer in Canada. She is a member of the Barreau du Québec since 2012 and of the Law Society of Ontario since 2017. A graduate from the Université de Montréal, she articled at the Human rights tribunal of Quebec. She received an LL.M from the University of Ottawa in 2014. Her thesis focused on the accountability of Humanitarian Non-State Actors in post-catastrophic settings. She completed field work in post-earthquake Haiti and used the implementation of housing rights as a case study. Her thesis was awarded the René-Lupien Prize, awarded annually for the best master’s thesis on a subject of special interest to the Canadian francophone community. From 2013 to 2018, Ms. Mathieu has worked as a private practitioner in Montreal and Toronto with a focus on vulnerable communities. She has assisted numerous refugee claimants with their immigration procedures, namely with their refugee claims before the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. Since February 2019, she works in Ottawa as a staff lawyer with Legal Aid Ontario.

https://droitcivil.uottawa.ca/en/people/mathieu-fedora

Gloria Song

Gloria Song is a Ph.D. candidate in law, studying access to justice for domestic violence issues under Dr. Angela Cameron and Dr. Jackie Dawson as part of the Change and Economic Development in Arctic Canada research team at the University of Ottawa. She leads international engagement at Polar Knowledge Canada (formerly the Canadian Polar Commission) working in research policy, as well as serving as a project coordinator for the Law Society of Nunavut. Gloria clerked at the Federal Court for the Honourable Mr. Justice Leonard Mandamin, and then practiced as a poverty lawyer for the Legal Services Board of Nunavut while based in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. She has worked on access to justice issues in domestic violence at the Legal Assistance Centre’s Gender Research and Advocacy Project in Windhoek, Namibia as part of the Canadian Bar Association’s Young Lawyers International Program. She continued researching these themes in Georgetown, Guyana as the 2016 Governance and Justice Research Award recipient through the International Development Research Centre. Gloria was the recipient of the Shirley Greenberg Scholarship in feminist law in 2018 and was awarded the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship at the doctoral level in 2019.

https://cdp-hrc.uottawa.ca/en/people/song-gloria

Brandon D. Stewart

Brandon D. Stewart is an Assistant Professor in the English Common Law Section (2021-2023) and a Fellow with the Center for Advanced Studies on the Foundations of Law and Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt. He holds a J.D. from the University of Ottawa (Silver Medal) and an LL.M. and J.S.D. from Yale Law School. Prior to entering academia, Professor Stewart practiced as a commercial litigator in Toronto and worked as a research fellow for a community legal clinic.

Professor Stewart has taught in the English Common Law Section since 2019 and was a full-time Instructor at the Schulich School of Law during the 2020-2021 academic year, where he was the recipient of the Hannah and Harold Barnett Excellence in Teaching First Year Law Award. He has taught courses on torts, toxic torts, property, civil procedure and climate change litigation.

Professor Stewart is a progressive private law and access to justice scholar. His research has been published in leading international peer-reviewed law journals and edited books and supported by a Fulbright Fellowship, a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (offered, but declined) and a McMillan International Dissertation Fellowship. Some research projects Professor Stewart is currently working on – in between Netflix binges and watching the Ottawa Senators lose hockey games – include: (1) the development of sustainable, climate-conscious financial regulations; (2) improving service delivery models within community legal clinics to address the access to civil justice gap; and (3) using insights from positive psychology to develop teaching pedagogies that promote law student wellbeing.

https://commonlaw.uottawa.ca/en/people/stewart-brandon

Vinícius Alves Barreto da Silva

Vinícius Alves Barreto da Silva is a PhD student in Law at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He has a Master of Theory and Philosophy of Law (2017) and a Bachelor of Law from the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (2014.) He is Coordinator of the Justice Forum Project. He researches the relationship between globalization and the production of legal knowledge about developing countries. He also studies empirical research on political relations in institutions focused on an access to justice, particularly the Public Defender’s Office in Brazil and other Latin American countries.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vinicius-Da-Silva