Michelle Williams
Associate Professor of Law; Co-Chair, ±«Óătv University African Nova Scotian Strategy
Email: michelle.williams@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-2863
Mailing Address:
PO Box 15000 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2
- African Nova Scotian Law
- Critical Race Theory and Practice
- Critical Race Feminism
- Anti-Racism, Equity, and Inclusion in Higher Education
- Human rights
- Criminal Law
Education
- BSW (±«Óătv)
- LLB (Toronto)
- LLM (New York)
Bar admissions
- Ontario, 1996-2021
- Nova Scotia, 2021
Bio
Prof. Michelle Williams B.S.W. (Dal), LL.B. (Tor), LL.M. (NYU) teaches criminal law and African Nova Scotians and the law and has served as an academic researcher on restorative justice. She served as a ±«Óătv Provost Fellow and continues to co-lead the University’s African Nova Scotian Strategy. She served as the inaugural chair of Schulich’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee. She served as Director of the award-winning Indigenous Blacks and Mi’kmaq (IB&M) Initiative (2004-2020) and is a member of the African Nova Scotian Access to Justice Judicial Committee, Watershed Legal Projects Board  (formerly Canadian Centre for Legal Innovation in Sexual Assault Response (CCLISAR), and the African Nova Scotian UN Decade for People of African Descent (ANSDPAD) Coalition. In the latter capacity she worked with the Coalition’s Justice Strategy Working Group on a range of legal issues including eradicating street checks, the use of African Nova Scotian Impact of Race and Cultural Assessments (IRCAs), and the establishment of the African Nova Scotian Justice Institute (ANSJI).
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- Criminal Law ()
- African Nova Scotians and the Law ()
- Law in National and International Context
- African Nova Scotian Legal History & issues and Critical Race Theory (ANS/CRT)
Research interests
Professor Williams' research interests include critical race theory and praxis, critical race feminism, African Nova Scotian Law, research ethics and understanding African Nova Scotians as a distinct people, and the practice of domestic and global public interest law.