Joanna Harrington
Law professor. Legal academic. Academic lawyer.
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Joanna Harrington is a Professor of Law at the University of Alberta. She specializes in matters of constitutional law and international law, including human rights law. A lawyer since 1995, and a legal academic since 1999, her teaching and research activities have also benefitted from visiting appointments at the University of New South Wales in Australia, the University of Oxford, and the University of Texas at Austin, the latter as a Fulbright scholar. She has also served on secondment with Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (now Global Affairs Canada), providing advice to government on matters of international human rights law and international criminal law, and representing Canada in multilateral 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. Her consultancy experience includes work with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), while her university leadership experience includes a five-year term as an associate dean with campus-wide responsibilities in the field of graduate education. In November 2018, she was appointed a part-time member of the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
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Joanna Harrington is the author of the 'Public International Law' title for the 'Halsbury’s Laws of Canada' series (LexisNexis 2010; reissue 2014; reissue 2019 forthcoming); a co-author with John H. Currie, Craig Forcese and Valerie Oosterveld of 'International Law: Doctrine, Practice, and Theory', 2nd ed (Irwin Law, 2014); and a co-editor with Holly Cullen and Catherine Renshaw of 'Experts, Networks and International Law' (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
She has also authored over 30 law journal articles and book chapters, alongside short notes, book reviews and blogposts, with her major works appearing in the American Journal of International Law, The Canadian Yearbook of International Law, the International & Comparative Law Quarterly, the McGill Law Journal, Queen’s Law Journal, and the Supreme Court Law Review, among others. Recent book chapters appear in Oliver, Macklem and Des Rosiers, eds, 'The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution' (Oxford University Press, 2017); Farrall and Charlesworth, eds, 'Strengthening the Rule of Law through the UN Security Council' (Routledge, 2016); Jalloh and Marong, eds, 'Promoting Accountability under International Law for Gross Human Rights Violations in Africa' (Brill, 2015); and Boister and Currie, eds, 'Routledge Handbook of Transnational Criminal Law' (Routledge, 2014).
Working in collaboration with others, her research activities have attracted funding from Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), specifically the International Opportunities Fund (2005-2007), the Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada Fund (2008-2009), a Standard Research Grant (2010-2013), and a Partnership Grant (2016-2021). She is a member of the Canadian Partnership for International Justice/Partenariat Canadien pour la Justice Internationale (CPIJ-PCJI), which brings together law professors, lawyers and NGOs from across Canada in support of efforts to secure greater accountability before both national and international courts on behalf of the victims of international crimes.
She has also authored over 30 law journal articles and book chapters, alongside short notes, book reviews and blogposts, with her major works appearing in the American Journal of International Law, The Canadian Yearbook of International Law, the International & Comparative Law Quarterly, the McGill Law Journal, Queen’s Law Journal, and the Supreme Court Law Review, among others. Recent book chapters appear in Oliver, Macklem and Des Rosiers, eds, 'The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution' (Oxford University Press, 2017); Farrall and Charlesworth, eds, 'Strengthening the Rule of Law through the UN Security Council' (Routledge, 2016); Jalloh and Marong, eds, 'Promoting Accountability under International Law for Gross Human Rights Violations in Africa' (Brill, 2015); and Boister and Currie, eds, 'Routledge Handbook of Transnational Criminal Law' (Routledge, 2014).
Working in collaboration with others, her research activities have attracted funding from Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), specifically the International Opportunities Fund (2005-2007), the Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada Fund (2008-2009), a Standard Research Grant (2010-2013), and a Partnership Grant (2016-2021). She is a member of the Canadian Partnership for International Justice/Partenariat Canadien pour la Justice Internationale (CPIJ-PCJI), which brings together law professors, lawyers and NGOs from across Canada in support of efforts to secure greater accountability before both national and international courts on behalf of the victims of international crimes.