I started with Sussex Law School in January 2015.

I completed my PhD with the Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London in 2014, with generous support from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Department of Law at King's College London, and the Government of Alberta and the Sir James Lougheed Award of Distinction. Prior to Sussex, I taught introductory courses at the in the Law & Society Department of the University of Calgary (Canada).

I have an LLM degree in Human Rights Law from the University of Nottingham, and an undergraduate degree in law from Carleton University in Canada. My previous teaching experience ranges from courses in criminology, criminal law, and political, legal, and social theory.



Research Interests

I am concurrently working on two different research areas that have considerable conceptual and theoretical overlap. In the first instance, I use critical legal geography to analyse minority protection in modern liberal societies, particularly as it relates to indigenous groups like the First Nations' communities in Canada and the Pakhtun tribal people of Pakistan.

My second area of research uses critical posthumanism and new materialism as an analytical lenses through which to rethink criminal law concepts. In particular, I am interested in looking at how artificial intelligence, and biotechnologies might shape the criminal legal discourse of the future and compel us to reorganise the legal structuring of criminal offences such as homicide and assault. I am also interested in rethinking law from a corporeal and materialist perspective, with a focus on how the environment influences legal thought and practice. I am currently working on a book which examines the fungal, vegetal, hydrological, geological and climatic dimensions of punishment. 

I am happy to supervise research in legal geography, Indigenous law and rights, criminological theory, punishment studies, science and technology studies (STS), and the intersection between law and posthuman/new materialist theory.