Suzanne Bouclin

Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa

Law and Popular Culture, Law and Film, Legal Pluralism, Feminist Jurisprudence and Feminist Aesthetics, Legal Pedagogy, Law and Poverty, Social Justice and Equality, Legal Theory

Media

Ticket defence program to fight back on behalf of homeless (with video)

Opponents unable to halt Gatineau 'sex marathon'

Ontario’s Safe Streets Act will cost lives amid the coronavirus pandemic

Biography

Suzanne Bouclin is an Associate Professor of Law (Common Law Section) at the University of Ottawa. She teaches broadly in the areas of social justice and conflict resolution. She holds a PhD from McGill University (Montreal), two interdisciplinary MAs, and has been a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada since 2002. Her research is situated at the crossroads of poverty law, film and media studies, and feminist theories. Bouclin is the first legal scholar to receive the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation’s Early Researcher Award (2015-2020). She was also named the University of Ottawa’s Young Researcher of the Year (2015-2016), and was elected to the Global Young Academy (2016-2021). In 2016, she was appointed to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal.

Expertise

  • Law and Popular Culture
  • Law and Film
  • Legal Pluralism
  • Feminist Jurisprudence and Feminist Aesthetic
  • Legal Pedagogy
  • Law and Poverty
  • Social Justice and Equality
  • Legal Theory