Faculty Profiles
Joanna Harrington, B.A. (U. Brit. Col.), J.D. (U. Victoria), Ph.D. (Cambridge)
Joanna Harrington is a professor in the Faculty of Law and an associate dean in the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Alberta. She teaches and writes in the fields of international law and Canadian and comparative constitutional law, with her published work examining such topics as the democratic deficit in the making of international treaties and the interplay between international human rights law and domestic bills of rights. She is also the author of the Public International Law title in the Halsbury’s Laws of Canada series. A past recipient of the Martha Cook Piper Research Prize, as well as several SSHRC grants, Professor Harrington has also served as the Scholar-in-Residence with Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (2006 to 2008), representing Canada at negotiations at the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Before entering academia, she served as the legal officer to a member of the British House of Lords during a period of significant constitutional reform (1998 to mid-1999). Visiting professorships have taken her to Australia, Japan and the United Kingdom, as well as the Caribbean and South America, and her consultancy experience includes work with the British Council in Ukraine, the United Nations Development Programme in Viet Nam, and the Judicial Studies Board of England and Wales. Committed to public service, Professor Harrington currently serves as the chair of the Alberta Press Council.
Representative Publications
J. Harrington, “R2P and Natural Disasters” in W.A. Knight and F. Egerton, The Routledge Handbook of the Responsibility to Protect (Taylor & Francis, 2012) (forthcoming)
J. Harrington, “Canada and the United Nations Human Rights Council: Dissent and Division” (2010) 60 University of New Brunswick Law Journal 78-115
J. Harrington, “Canada, the United Nations Human Rights Council, and Universal Periodic Review” (2009) 18:2 Constitutional Forum 79-93
J. Harrington, “The Democratic Challenge of Incorporation: International Human Rights Treaties and National Constitutions” (2007) 38:2 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 217-235
J. Harrington, “Scrutiny and Approval: The Role for Westminster-style Parliaments in Treaty-Making” (2006) 55:1 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 121-159
J. Harrington, “The Role for Human Rights Obligations in Canadian Extradition Law” [2005] 43 Canadian Yearbook of International Law 45-100
J. Harrington, “Redressing the Democratic Deficit in Treaty Law Making: (Re-) Establishing a Role for Parliament” (2005) 50:3 McGill Law Journal 465-509
J. Harrington, “The Challenge to the Mandatory Death Penalty in the Commonwealth Caribbean” (2004) 98:1 American Journal of International Law 126-140
J. Harrington, “Punting Terrorists, Assassins and Other Undesirables: Canada, the Human Rights Committee and Requests for Interim Measures of Protection” (2003) 48:1 McGill Law Journal 55-87
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To contact, please email: jharrington@law.ualberta.ca
