I am a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Toronto.

Broadly, my research interest, teaching experience, and scholarly work is in modern political thought; critical theory of empire, colonialism, and postcolonialism; political economy; and legal theory. My dissertation examines the application and interconnection of these subjects in the contemporary setting of resource extraction, primarily in the Canadian context. Legal cases relevant to this situation reveal how Canadian laws and procedures—particularly injunctions—have become weaponized to dispossess Indigenous people of their rights to land through the criminalization of resistance. The purpose of this project is not only to explore how these cases reinforce the presence of differing regimes of consent and conceptualizations of sovereignty, but also to propose an alternate legal framework that could be used to legitimate Indigenous land reclamation.

Here, my focus turns to the origin and foundations of injunctions as both an equitable and discretionary remedy sought when the court perceives the application of the rule of law to be limited in a given instance. My research aims to clearly render the usage of this equitable legal remedy and recast this discretionary judicial space using a framework of solidarity that highlights the relationships comprising the politics that the law seeks to remedy, especially in the area of cumulative impact and harm. I argue that this remedy already contains the possibility for considerations that move beyond mere economic interests or reproduction of the status quo and may even be a space to better enact the principles of meaningful reconciliation through the epistemic privileging of Indigenous worldviews, traditional frameworks, and legal principles.