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Associate professor
Faculty of Law
Common Law

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (3713)
Cell: 819-665-0802
E-mail: lchartra@uottawa.ca
Website

Preferred method s of contact:

E-mail, Cell Telephone

Research information:

I take an interdisciplinary approach to Indigenous peoples' issues including work involving Aboriginal rights and Treaty rights as understood from the perspective of Canadian law, International law and Indigenous legal traditions. Main areas of focus currently include Indigenous Identity and citizenship, Metis issues, Treaty interpretation and modern Treaties, Indigenous self-determination and sovereignty, critical Indigenous theory, decolonization Indigenous justice reform, and Indigenous legal traditions. Other areas of interest include Tort law, Constitutional law and International humanitarian law, including Rwandan gacaca courts and transitional law issues.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
• Aboriginal criminality
• Aboriginal history
• Aboriginal legal issues
• Aboriginal Studies
• Alternatives to imprisonment
• Bioethics
• Colonization
• Constitutional law
• Criminal law
• Culture
• Epidemiology
• Ethics
• Ethics
• Federalism
• Hate crimes
• Health research
• Human rights
• Human rights
• Human rights
• Indigenous Conceptions
• Indigenous Prophecies
• Indigenous Responsibilities
• Indigenous Rights
• Intercultural communication
• International human rights law
• International humanitarian law
• International law
• International law
• Justice
• Legislation and learning
• Native teacher education
• Population health
• Postcolonial studies
• Rights and freedoms
• Sentencing
• Social justice
• Torts

Language preference:

English only

Assistant professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Criminology

Contact information:

E-mail: justin.piche@uOttawa.ca
Website

Preferred method of contact:

E-mail

Research information:

Prison, penal and carceral expansion, alternatives to incarceration, punishment and carceral controls, cultural representations of confinement and punishment, penal geography, prison writing. Additionally in relation to prisons: business, human rights, and national policy.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Alternatives to imprisonment
• Canadian politics
• Capital punishment
• Consequences of imprisonment
• Crime in Canada
• Detention
• History of the Canadian penal system
• Justice
• Political ideology
• Prison
• Prison tourism
• Prison writing
• State violence

Language preference:

English and French