Terry Skolnik

Terry Skolnik
Terry Skolnik
Associate Professor

Doctorate of Juridical Sciences (S.J.D.), University of Toronto, 2018
Master of Law (L.L.M.), University of Cambridge, 2013
Licentiate in Law (L.L.L.), Université d'Ottawa, 2012



Biographie

Terry Skolnik is an associate professor (on leave) at the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Civil Law. He is currently a research professor at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University (ASU). He is also the executive director of ASU's Academy for Justice.

His primary research interests are criminal law and procedure, policing, property law, legal philosophy, poverty law, and law and behavioural economics.

He co-directed the uOttawa Public Law Centre between 2022-2024. He also co-directed the Faculty's Mental Health and Well-Being Committee, and was a member of the University of Ottawa's Mental Health and Wellness Advisory Committee. He was a visiting research fellow at Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Law (2021) and was an affiliated scholar at NYU's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (2018-2019).

He was awarded the faculty's distinguished teaching prize for 2020-2021.

Prior to joining the Faculty, he served as a law clerk for the Honourable Justice Russell Brown at the Supreme Court of Canada. Prior to academia, he worked as a police officer with the Montreal Police Service.

Terry Skolnik completed the S.J.D. at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law as a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier doctoral research fellow and as a FRQSC doctoral research fellow. He is a graduate of the University of Cambridge (L.L.M.) where he studied as a Commonwealth Trust Scholar and the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law (L.L.L., summa cum laude).

Publications

  1. Socio-Economic Criminal Justice (Under contract) (Cambridge University Press, 2026).
  2. Homelessness, Liberty, and Property (Cambridge University Press, 2024).
  3. Ancillary Police Powers in Canada: A Critical Reassessment (with Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, John Burchill, and Richard Jochelson) (University of Chicago Press/UBC Press, 2024).