Joanna Harrington
Professor | Faculty of Law | University of Alberta
Joanna Harrington is the holder of the Eldon Foote Chair in International Business and Law at the University of Alberta. A law professor for over 20 years, her research and teaching activities focus on understanding the interplay between obligations of national and international law. Her work has led to visiting appointments at the University of New South Wales, the University of Oxford, and the University of Texas at Austin, the latter as a Fulbright Scholar. In 2018, she received the Canadian Association of Law Teachers Prize for Academic Excellence. She has also served as a lawyer-diplomat with Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (now Global Affairs Canada), providing advice to government on matters of international law and representing Canada in the negotiation of new legal instruments at the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. She has also worked as a consultant with the United Nations Development Programme and currently serves as a part-time member of the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
Joanna Harrington is the author of over 85 publications, ranging from law review articles, book chapters and reference texts to scholarly blogposts and public policy commentaries. She has also delivered over 80 presentations at conferences, continuing legal education workshops and community outreach events.
Her work contributes to our understanding of foreign relations law, the law of treaties, the law and practice of international organizations, the interplay between international human rights law and national bills of rights, and inter-state efforts to address the commission of serious cross-border crime. Her published work can be found in the American Journal of International Law, The Canadian Yearbook of International Law, the International & Comparative Law Quarterly, the McGill Law Journal and the Supreme Court Law Review. She has also contributed to several highly regarded collections, including The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution and the Routledge Handbook of Transnational Criminal Law, and is a co-author with John H. Currie, Craig Forcese and Valerie Oosterveld of International Law: Doctrine, Practice, and Theory, 2nd ed (Irwin Law, 2014).
Her research activities have attracted funding since 2005 from Canada’s national granting agency, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). She is currently a member of the SSHRC-funded Canadian Partnership for International Justice / Partenariat Canadien pour la Justice Internationale (CPIJ-PCJI), which aims to use legal research to secure greater accountability for the victims of serious international crimes before both national and international courts.
Her work contributes to our understanding of foreign relations law, the law of treaties, the law and practice of international organizations, the interplay between international human rights law and national bills of rights, and inter-state efforts to address the commission of serious cross-border crime. Her published work can be found in the American Journal of International Law, The Canadian Yearbook of International Law, the International & Comparative Law Quarterly, the McGill Law Journal and the Supreme Court Law Review. She has also contributed to several highly regarded collections, including The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution and the Routledge Handbook of Transnational Criminal Law, and is a co-author with John H. Currie, Craig Forcese and Valerie Oosterveld of International Law: Doctrine, Practice, and Theory, 2nd ed (Irwin Law, 2014).
Her research activities have attracted funding since 2005 from Canada’s national granting agency, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). She is currently a member of the SSHRC-funded Canadian Partnership for International Justice / Partenariat Canadien pour la Justice Internationale (CPIJ-PCJI), which aims to use legal research to secure greater accountability for the victims of serious international crimes before both national and international courts.