Dayna N. Scott

Biography

Professor Dayna Nadine Scott joined Osgoode’s faculty in 2006 after completing a SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship at McGill’s Faculty of Law and a Hauser Global Research Fellowship at NYU. She is cross-appointed with York’s Faculty of Environmental Studies. Professor Scott’s teaching is in environmental law and justice; risk regulation; and international environmental governance. Professor Scott is the Primary Investigator on two current SSHRC-funded projects: “Reconciling Sovereignties: New Techniques for ‘Authorizing’ Extraction on Indigenous Territories” is a Partnership Development Grant with Shiri Pasternak, Adrian Smith, Emilie Cameron and Anna Stanley in partnership with the Indigenous Network on Economies and Trade (INET) and MiningWatch Canada. “Consent & Contract: Authorizing Extraction in Ontario’s Ring of Fire” is a SSHRC Insight Grant with Andree Boisselle, Deborah McGregor and Estair Van Wagner. Recent projects included SSHRC-funded research in partnership with environmental justice activists from the Aamjiwnaang First Nation, near Sarnia`s Chemical Valley, which tackled the issue of chronic pollution on an Ontario reserve. The project applied a critical, feminist perspective to the examination of law’s treatment of the risks of long-term, low-dose exposures to pollutants. Professor Dayna Nadine Scott joined Osgoode’s faculty in 2006 after completing a SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship at McGill’s Faculty of Law and a Hauser Global Research Fellowship at NYU. She is cross-appointed with York’s Faculty of Environmental Studies. Professor Scott’s teaching is in environmental law and justice; risk regulation; and international environmental governance. Professor Scott is the Primary Investigator on two current SSHRC-funded projects: “Reconciling Sovereignties: New Techniques for ‘Authorizing’ Extraction on Indigenous Territories” is a Partnership Development Grant with Shiri Pasternak, Adrian Smith, Emilie Cameron and Anna Stanley in partnership with the Indigenous Network on Economies and Trade (INET) and MiningWatch Canada. “Consent & Contract: Authorizing Extraction in Ontario’s Ring of Fire” is a SSHRC Insight Grant with Andree Boisselle, Deborah McGregor and Estair Van Wagner. Recent projects included SSHRC-funded research in partnership with environmental justice activists from the Aamjiwnaang First Nation, near Sarnia`s Chemical Valley, which tackled the issue of chronic pollution on an Ontario reserve. The project applied a critical, feminist perspective to the examination of law’s treatment of the risks of long-term, low-dose exposures to pollutants.

Research Interest

Research Interests: Environmental Law & Justice, Gender and Environmental Health, Toxic Substances Regulation, Pollution, and Feminist Theory of the Body