Schulich School of Law
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA | CANADA B3H 4R2 | +1 (902) 494-3495

Carol Aylward

LL.B. (Dalhousie); LL.M. (Dalhousie).

Associate Professor

Telephone: (902) 494-7123
E-mail: carol.aylward@dal.ca

Biography

Associate Professor, Dalhousie Law School, since 1991; Director, Program for Indigenous Blacks & Mi'Kmaq, 1991-2000; Member of the Nova Scotia and Ontario Bars.

The first Indigenous Black Nova Scotian to obtain a Masters of Law degree from Dalhousie Law School. Professor Aylward is the past-President of the Canadian Access to Legal Education Group, a former member of the Nova Scotia Police Commission and a former member of the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission.

Teaching subjects:

Criminal Law, The Individual and The State; Criminal Procedure; General Jurisprudence.

Publications:

  • "Adding Color: A Critique of `An Essay on Institutional Responsibility: The Indigenous Blacks and Micmac Programme at Dalhousie Law School'", (Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, Vol. 82).
  • “Take the Long Way Home: R.D.S. and Critical Race Theory" (University of New Brunswick Law Journal 1998).
  • Canadian Critical Race Theory: Racism and the Law (Fernwood Publishing, 1999).

Videos produced:

"Balancing the Scales", Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, NS.

Research interests:

Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, General Jurisprudence, Critical Race Theory, Critical Race Litigation, and Human Rights.

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