B.A. (McMaster) 1995; M.A. (Queen’s) 1996; LL.B. (Toronto) 1999; LL.M. (Harvard) 2001
Associate Professor
Director, Nova Scotia Restorative Justice Community Research Alliance
Research Fellow, Center for Foreign Policy Studies
Telephone: (902) 494-1013
E-mail: jennifer.llewellyn@dal.ca
Biography: Professor Llewellyn was appointed to Dalhousie Law School in 2001. Before coming to Dalhousie she was law clerk to Justices A.M. Linden and F.J. McDonald, at the Federal Court of Appeal (1999-2000). She worked for the Research Department of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (1997). In 2002 she was an Expert Witness on restorative justice before West Kingston Commission of Enquiry (Jamaica) (2002). She acted as a consultant to Health Canada advising on constitutional jurisdiction issues (2002). She was a member of the Research Initiative on the Resolution of Ethnic Conflict (RIREC), at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame (2002-2004). She was appointed a member of the Assembly of First Nations’ Expert Task Group on Canada’s Dispute Resolution Plan to Compensate for Abuses in Indian Residential Schools (2004) and acted as an advisor to the Assembly of First Nations in negotiations over redress for Indian Residential School abuse which resulted in the creation of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She subsequently served as a member of the external expert review panel for the Indian Residential School Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She served as a Senior Consultant for the United Nations Development Program assisting with the formulation of the National Restorative Justice Policy for Jamaica (2007-2008). She was a Visiting Scholar of Law at Vanderbilt Law School in 2008. Professor Llewellyn is currently a member of the Working Party on Restorative Justice (WPRJ) of the Alliance of NGOs on Criminal Prevention and Criminal Justice in New York and a member of the steering group for the Working Party’s Restorative Peacebuilding Project. She is also an Academic/Policy Advisor to the Nova Scotia Provincial Restorative Justice Program Management Committee.
Professor Llewellyn is the Director of the Nova Scotia Restorative Justice Community University Research Alliance (NSRJ-CURA) a collaborative, multi-partner, interdisciplinary, research initiative involving university and community partners funded through a five-year grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The NSRJ-CURA research is focused on the institutionalization of restorative justice practice with particular attention to the example of the Nova Scotia Restorative Justice Program. For more detail please see www.nsrj-cura.ca.
Teaching subjects:
Public Law, Constitutional Law, Restorative Justice: Theory and Practice, the Graduate Seminar and the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Intensive Course..
Selected publications:
· ““Capitalist ‘Justice’ as peddled by the ‘Noble Lords’”: Toronto Electric Commissioners v. Snider et al” forthcoming in J. Fudge & E. Tucker eds., Work on Trial: Labour Law in Context (Osgoode Society & Irwin Law) (with R. Blake Brown).
· “Relational Theory & Health Law and Policy” Health Law Journal Special Edition (2008) 193-210. (with Jocelyn Downie).
· “Bridging the Gap between Truth and Reconciliation: Restorative Justice and the Indian Residential School Truth and Reconciliation Commission” in M. Brant-Castellano, L. Archibald, M. DeGagne eds., From Truth to Reconciliation: Transforming the Legacy of Residential Schools (Ottawa: Aboriginal Healing Foundation, 2008).
· “Doing Justice: New Directions in Restorative Justice” in R. Murphy ed. Doing Justice: Dispute Resolution in the Courts and Beyond (Ottawa: Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, 2007).
· “A Healthy Conception of Rights?: Thinking Relationally About Rights in a Health Law Context” in J. Downie & E. Gibson eds., Health Law at the Supreme Court of Canada (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2007).
· “Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Restorative Justice in Response to Abuse and Violence” in G. Johnstone & D. Van Ness, eds., Handbook of Restorative Justice (Devon, U.K.: Willan Publishing, 2007).
· “The Challenges of Institutionalizing Comprehensive Restorative Justice: Theory and Practice in Nova Scotia” (2006) 29 Dalhousie Law Journal 297-343 (with B. Archibald).
· “Restorative Justice in Transitions and Beyond: The Justice Potential of Truth Telling Mechanisms for Post-Peace Accord Societies” T. Borer, ed. Telling The Truths: Truth Telling and Peace Building in Post-Conflict Societies (Notre Dame Press, 2006) pp.83-114.
· “A Constitutional Defence of the Federal Ban on Human Cloning for Research Purposes” (2005) 31 Queen’s Law Journal (with J. Downie and F. Baylis) 353-384.
· “Doing Justice in South Africa: Restorative Justice and Reparations” in C. Villa-Vicencio & E. Doxtader, eds., Repairing the Unforgiveable: Reparations and Reconstruction in South Africa (South Africa: David Philip Publishers/New Africa Books, 2004) 166-183.
· “Review of Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self” in (2003) 15 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 392-396.
· “Justice to the Extent Possible: The Relationship Between the International Criminal Court and Domestic Truth Commissions” in The Highway to the International Criminal Court: All Roads Lead to Rome (Montreal: Journées Maximilien-Caron, 2003) 327-335.
· “A Primer on Human Rights Law” in J. Downie, K. McEwen & W. MacInnis, eds., Dental Law in Canada (Markham, Ontario: Butterworths, 2004) 91-111.
· “Protecting Human Research Subjects: A Jurisdictional Analysis” (2003) Health Law Journal, Special Edition: Health Law in the 21st Century (with J. Downie & R. Holmes) 207-242.
· “Restorative Justice in Borde and Hamilton – A Systemic Problem?” (2003) 8 Criminal Reports (6th) 308.
· “Building, Strengthening and Transforming Communities: Exploring the Possibilities for Restorative Justice in Jamaica” (2002) 27 West Indian Law Journal 77-110.
· “Dealing with the Legacy of Native Residential School Abuse: Litigation, ADR, and Restorative Justice” (2002) 52 University of Toronto Law Journal 253-300.
· “A Comment on the Complementary Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court: Adding Insult to Injury in Transitional Contexts?” (2001) 24 Dalhousie Law Journal 190-217.
· “Just Amnesty and Private International Law” in C. Scott, ed., Torture as Tort: Comparative Perspectives on the Development of Transnational Human Rights Litigation (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2001) 567-600.
· “Justice for South Africa: Restorative Justice and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission” in C. M. Koggel, ed., Moral Issues in Global Perspective (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1999) 96-111.
· “Institutions for Restorative Justice: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission” (with R. Howse) (1999) 49 University of Toronto Law Journal 355-388.
· “The Protection of Human Rights Through International Criminal Law: Interview with Madam Justice Louise Arbour” (with S. Raponi) (1999) 57 University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review 81-97.
· Restorative Justice – A Conceptual Framework (with R. Howse) (Ottawa: Law Commission of Canada, 1998) 1-107.
Research interests:
Restorative Justice, Legal Theory, Feminist Legal Theory, Relational Theory, Constitutional Law, Public International Law, International Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law, Truth Commissions and Transitional Justice, Indian Residential Schools.
Courses:
LAWS 2062 - Constitutional Law
LAWS 1003 - Fundamentals of Public Law
LAWS 3000 - Graduate Seminar on Legal Education and Legal Scholarship
LAWS 2188 - Restorative Justice
LAWS 2227 – Indian Residential Schools Settlement Intensive Course