Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Research
I am particularly interested in the relationship between international human rights law, environment, and business law, with a focus on the rights of local and Indigenous communities, and global south perspectives on sustainable development. I have researched and published extensively on home state duties and business responsibilities in the extractive industries context. More recently, I consider how lessons from this research as well as insights from feminist and relational theorists might inform approaches to environmental and climate justice.
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About Sara L. Seck
I am particularly interested in the relationship between international human rights law, environment, and business law, with a focus on the rights of local and Indigenous communities, and global south perspectives on sustainable development. I have researched and published extensively on home state duties and business responsibilities in the extractive industries context. More recently, I consider how lessons from this research as well as insights from feminist and relational theorists might inform approaches to environmental and climate justice.
| Present | Faculty Member, Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law ‐ Marine and Environmental Law Institute | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
| 2017 | Natural Resource Extraction and the Rights of Women and Girls |
| Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada (Connection Grant) | |
| Colleague(s): Penelope Simons | |
| 2015 | International Law Summer Institute |
| Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada (Connection Grant) | |
| Colleague(s): Neil Craik | |
| 2009 | A Critical Analysis of the Home State Duty to Protect |
| Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (Research Grant) |
Professional Service and Affiliations
| 2018 - Present | Member, Board of Directors, ECELAW | 2017 - Present | Member, Board of Directors, Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Association | 2017 - Present | Director North America, Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment | 2014 - Present | Member, Governance Committee, Columbia University Teaching Business and Human Rights Forum | 2014 - Present | Member of the Board, International Law Association, Canadian Branch | 2014 - 2018 | Member, Board of Directors, Canadian Council on International Law (CCIL) | 2015 - 2017 | Member, Advisory Group, Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability | 2012 | Member, Program Committee, 106th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law: Confronting Complexity | 2000 | Member, Ontario Bar | Member, Editorial Board, Business and Human Rights Journal (Cambridge U Press) |
Honors and Awards
- University Student’s Council, Teaching Honour Roll, Western University (for 2016-2017)
- Emerging Scholarship Award, Academy of Environmental Law, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (September 2015)
- Senior Fellow, International Law Research Program, Centre International Governance Innovation, Waterloo (appointed May 2015)
- University Student’s Council, Teaching Honour Roll, Western University (for 2014-2015)
- Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2001-2004)
- Harley D. Hallett Graduate Scholarship, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (2001)
- Patricia Julia Myhal Scholarship for excellence in legal writing (Aeq), Faculty of Law, University of Toronto (1999)
- Tory, Tory Deslauriers & Binnington Prize in Conflicts of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto (1999)
| BMus, MUN | ||
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| MMus, University of Ottawa | ||
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| LLB, University of Toronto | ||
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| PhD, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University | ||
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Contact Information
Schulich School of Law
Weldon Law Building
6061 University Avenue
PO Box 15000
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2
Email: sara.seck@dal.ca
