Joanna Harrington
Law professor. Legal academic. Academic lawyer.
Joanna Harrington is a Professor of Law at the University of Alberta. She teaches, researches and writes in the areas of constitutional law and international law. This focus includes foreign relations law, the law and practice of international organizations, the interplay between national bills of rights and international human rights law, and international and transnational criminal law. A lawyer since 1995, and a legal academic since 1999, she has also served as the Scholar-in-Residence with Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs (now Global Affairs Canada), providing advice to government on matters of international human rights law and international criminal law, and participating 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 work has led to 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, while her consultancy experience includes work with the United Nations Development Programme, the Canadian Human Rights Commission, and the Judicial Studies Board of England and Wales. She has also assisted counsel in private practice on matters of treaty law, transnational criminal law and human rights. From 2010-2015, she served as an associate dean with campus-wide responsibilities for the quality and standards of graduate education. Before becoming a law professor, she served as the legal adviser to a member of Britain's House of Lords for the passage of the Human Rights Act and other measures of significant constitutional reform.
Professor Harrington is the author of the Public International Law title for the Halsbury’s Laws of Canada series (LexisNexis 2010; reissue 2014); 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, with works appearing in the American Journal of International Law, The Canadian Yearbook of International Law, Constitutional Forum, 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, The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution (2017); Farrall and Charlesworth, Strengthening the Rule of Law through the UN Security Council (2016); Jalloh and Marong, Promoting Accountability under International Law for Gross Human Rights Violations in Africa (2015); and Boister and Currie, Routledge Handbook of Transnational Criminal Law (2014).
Her research activities have attracted funding from Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), specifically the International Opportunities Fund (2005-07), the Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada Fund (2008-09), a Standard Research Grant (2010-13), and a Partnership Grant (2016-21).
She has also authored over 30 law journal articles and book chapters, with works appearing in the American Journal of International Law, The Canadian Yearbook of International Law, Constitutional Forum, 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, The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution (2017); Farrall and Charlesworth, Strengthening the Rule of Law through the UN Security Council (2016); Jalloh and Marong, Promoting Accountability under International Law for Gross Human Rights Violations in Africa (2015); and Boister and Currie, Routledge Handbook of Transnational Criminal Law (2014).
Her research activities have attracted funding from Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), specifically the International Opportunities Fund (2005-07), the Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada Fund (2008-09), a Standard Research Grant (2010-13), and a Partnership Grant (2016-21).