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Pooja Parmar is an Associate Professor and holds the President’s Chair in Law and Indigeneity in a Global Context at UVic Faculty of Law. Her research focuses on Indigeneity, the legal profession and ethical lawyering. Among her current projects are a SSHRC-funded study of Indigenous laws as sources of ethical legal practice in BC, and a GAC-funded collaborative project about Indigenous laws and transpacific trade. Much of Dr. Parmar’s research is informed by her interest in legal pluralism and legal history, and by questions of legal epistemology in multi-juridical spaces. In her published research Dr. Parmar has examined aspects of human right to water, Indigeneity and Indigenous claims, oral history, lawyers as translators across legal worlds, intersections of law and colonialism, land, law and development. Her book titled (Cambridge University Press) explores some of these issues in the context of Adivasi protests against a Coca-Cola facility. Her paper titled ‘’ critically examines competence in the context of the TRC Calls to Action and received the CALT Prize for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
Dr. Parmar joined the Faculty of Law in 2015. She received a PhD in Law from UBC, and has previously taught at Carleton University, Osgoode Hall Law School, and UBC Faculty of Law. Prior to commencing graduate research, she practiced law in New Delhi for several years. At UVic Law Dr. Parmar teaches legal ethics and professionalism, property law, and international human rights law.
Professor Parmar is the Vice president of the (CALE), and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Asia Pacific Initiatives (CAPI). She serves on the editorial board of the , and on the CAPI Steering Committee.
BA (Honours) – Panjab University (1993)
LLB – Panjab University (1996)
LLM – UBC (2006)
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