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).
