Meet our new faculty for 2020

MICHELLE WILLIAMS Michelle Williams is already part of the Schulich Law community, having served as Director of Schulich Law’s IB&M Initiative for more than 15 years. She earned her LLB at the University of Toronto, her LLM at NYU and also holds a Bachelor of Social Work from Dalhousie. Her research interests include African Nova Scotian Law, critical race theory and practice, and criminal law. She is actively engaged in advocacy for African Nova Scotians, and serves on a number of committees both at Dal and in the broader community dedicated to equity, diversity and inclusiveness. Williams will be teaching African Nova Scotians and the Law and Criminal Justice in the 2020/2021 academic year.

SHERRY PICTOU Sherry Pictou has accepted a joint tenure track position with the Schulich School of Law and School of Public Administration, Faculty of Management. She holds a BA from Saint Mary’s, a BEd from Mount Allison and an MA (Education) and Interdisciplinary PhD from Dal, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Women’s Studies Department at Mount Saint Vincent University. Her research interests include decolonizing treaty relations, social justice for Indigenous women, Indigenous women’s role in food and lifeways, and Indigenous knowledge and food systems. She is a former Chief for her community, L’sitkuk (water cuts through high rocks) known as Bear River First Nation, Nova Scotia.

SARA ROSS Sara Ross completed her BCL and LLB with a major in Commercial Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at McGill University, her LLM from the University of Ottawa and her PhD at Osgoode Hall. She also holds a BA with Distinction in French from the University of Alberta, and a BA Honours with Distinction from McGill. Her research looks at the intersection of law, culture and the city. Ross will be deferring her appointment until 2021 to take on a Banting Fellowship at Schulich Law, supervised by Professors Sara Seck and Jamie Baxter. She will be teaching Private International Law in the 2020/2021 academic year.

LIAM McHUGH RUSSELL

Liam McHugh Russell earned his JD at the University of Toronto, his LLM at McGill and his PhD at the European University Institute. He also holds a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo. His research is focused on the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) approach to informal employment, the World Bank’s influence on global business regulation, and the impact of the American Law Institute on corporate governance. He recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Labour Law and Development Research Lab at McGill. In the 2020/2021 academic year, he will be teaching Business Associations, Labour Law and will be coaching the Labour Arbitration moot team.