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 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 consultancy experience includes work with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). From 2010-2015, she served as an associate dean with university-wide responsibilities in the field of graduate education, and in November 2018, she was appointed a part-time member of the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Before becoming a law professor, she served as a legal adviser for a member of the House of Lords for the passage of the Human Rights Act and other measures of constitutional reform in the United Kingdom.
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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, 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, 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 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, 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).