Faculty directory

Maneesha Deckha

B.A. (McGill) 1995, LL.B, (Toronto) 1998, LL.M. (Columbia) 2002, called to the Bar in Ontario in 2000.

Professor Deckha joined the Faculty of Law as an Assistant Professor in 2002, after practising at the Ministry of the Attorney General in Toronto and attending Columbia University, where she completed an LL.M. thesis on gender and cultural equality in criminal law. In addition to her appointment at the University of Victoria, she has held the Fulbright Visiting Chair in Law and Society at New York University, and has been appointed as a Scholar-in-Residence at Seattle University School of Law and a Visiting Scholar at the Hastings Institute for Bioethics.

Professor Deckha’s research interests include critical animal studies, intersectionality, feminist analysis of law, law and culture, animal law and bioethics. Her work has been published in Canada and internationally in legal and interdisciplinary venues including Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Medical Law Review, Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, Hastings Women's Law Journal, UCLA Women's Law Journal, Harvard Journal of Gender and Law, Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society, Ethics & The Environment, Animal Law Review, Journal of Animal Law and Ethics, Stanford Journal of Animal Law and Policy, and Unbound: The Harvard Journal of the Legal Left. She has also contributed to several anthologies relating to feminism, cultural pluralism and health law and policy, and she is the recipient of grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program.

Professor Deckha has taught courses on: Animals, Culture and the Law; Bioethics, Personhood and the Law; Feminist Legal Theories; Administrative Law; Property; and Legal Process. She has been the recipient of the Faculty’s Terry J. Wuester Teaching Award and a University of Victoria Learning and Teaching Centre Grant in support of her interactive pedagogy. In 2006, her seminar on Animals, Culture and the Law received the U.S. Humane Society's Animal and Society New Course Award.

Professor Deckha was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008. Her academia.edu site is at http://uvic.academia.edu/ManeeshaDeckha.

Maneesha Deckha
Faculty of Law, University of Victoria
PO Box 1700, STN CSC
Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2
Canada

Email: Maneesha Deckha
Fax: 250-721-8146
Tel: 250-721-8175

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Courses

Law, Legislation and Policy - 104
The Administrative Law Process - 301
Animals, Culture and the Law - 381
Bioethics, Personhood and the Law - 343
Feminist Legal Theories - 369

CV

Maneesha Deckha's CV (July 2011)

Publications

My research investigates the interactions between law and culture, particularly how both draw and justify the divide between personhood and property that is foundational to our current legal order. I take up these questions in various areas and through multiple theoretical frameworks. Central concerns have been debates over personhood with respect to the human/animal divide as well in relation to (human) embryos and racialized women from non-majoritarian cultures. Most of my scholarship harnesses and often integrates critical animal studies, postcolonial feminism, critical race theory, and gender and sexuality studies to critically evaluate the law and its core cultural premises about reason, humanness, and dignity.

Some of the publications listed in the PDF document below are accessible at my Academia.edu webpage at: http://uvic.academia.edu/ManeeshaDeckha.

Maneesha Deckha's publications