In addition to the 231 JDs who crossed the stage at Convocation Hall, four Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) scholars were conferred their degrees at today's spring ceremony.
Read more about our newest Graduate Alumni below:
Mercedes Cavallo (SJD 2023)
Mercedes Cavallo researches the legal production of spatial and temporal scales from a legal geography perspective. Particularly, how the different laws in the context of Buenos Aires, Argentina, unfold childcare in the private space and time of the household, shaping women’s inequality.
Before graduating from her doctoral studies at U of T, Mercedes received her LLB in 2007 (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina), her LLM in Reproductive Rights in 2009 (University of Toronto, Canada), her Diploma in Women and Human Rights in 2011 (Universidad de Chile), and her Specialization in Criminal Law in 2016 (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella).
From 2014 to 2016, Cavallo was an Adjunct Professor. First in Universidad de Palermo, where she taught “Jurisprudence” and later in Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, where she taught "Introduction to Argentine Constitutional Law" and "Gender and the Criminal Law".
Before starting her SJD at U of T Law in 2016, Cavallo as a court clerk at the Federal Supreme Court of Argentina, the Director of the Socio-Economic Rights Program at Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (Argentina), and a Secretary of Court at the 4th National Court on Federal Criminal Law in Buenos Aires City (Argentina).
J. Enman-Beech (SJD 2023)
J. Enman-Beech studies contract law, including current issues in work, consumer, and user law. They have published on the ways contract structures people's relationships with social media platforms, gig economy apps, and other businesses. Their work is methodologically diverse, encompassing both doctrinal approaches and feminist, queer and critical legal and economic theory. Their dissertation combines these to critique the shifting role of contract law in the everyday—contract life. Their publications have appeared in the Dalhousie Law Journal, the Canadian Journal of Law and Society, the Supreme Court Law Review, the Canadian Business Law Journal, the Journal of Commonwealth Law, and the Journal of Law and Equality.
Enman-Beech is currently a lecturer in the law of contract at King's College London's Dickson Poon School of Law. They have previously taught at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law and the University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law. Enman-Beech is a graduate fellow of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, doctoral fellow of U of T's Centre for Ethics, a SSHRC doctoral fellow, an Ontario Graduate Scholar, and previously a SSHRC Canada Graduate Master's Scholar.
Sophie Nunnelley (SJD 2023)
Nunnelley is currently Associate Director of the University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics. She researches issues of legal capacity and their implications for autonomy and equality, and writes and speaks in areas including health and mental health law, disability, human rights, equality, and freedom of expression. She was named a Vanier Canada Scholar and was previously a CIHR Fellow in Health Law, Ethics and Policy, a Lupina Fellow in Comparative Health & Society, and a Fulbright Scholar. She obtained her LLM from Yale Law School.
Before returning to academia, Sophie Nunnelley law, as constitutional and human rights lawyer with the Ministry of the Attorney General of Ontario. She was also counsel in the Office of the Lead Counsel to the Gomery Inquiry, and served as law clerk to the Honourable Mr. Justice Gonthier of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Sarah Riley Case (SJD 2023)
Sarah Riley Case is an assistant professor at McGill University Faculty of Law whose research and teaching focus is on slavery and the law, Critical Race Theory, Black life, Third World Approaches to International Law, settler colonialism, arts, and governing the natural world.
Before joining McGill, she was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School’s Institute for Global Law and Policy. She served as a Special Advisor to the UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity and taught at U of T Law and York University's Osgoode Hall Law School.
Her work crosses over law, history, conceptions of justice, representations of nature, and the arts. Her publications include ‘Looking to the Horizon: The Meanings of Reparations for Unbearable Crises’ (AJIL Unbound), where she explores overlapping Caribbean reparations claims for slavery, colonialism and climate change; ‘Homelands of Mary Ann Shadd’, where she explores the Black radical tradition, historical erasure, and the politics of recognition in international law’s narratives (in Immi Tallgren, ed., Portraits of International Law New Names and Forgotten Faces?). Another recent publication, ‘Thoughts of Liberation’ in Canadian Art (with Nataleah Hunter-Young), puts ten Black women poets, scholars, artists, and activists in conversation.
Sarah Riley Case collaborates with people working toward racial, regional and ecological justice in the UN system, academic communities, and legal clinics. She presently serves on the Black Legal Action Centre (BLAC) Task Force on Legal Aid Ontario Modernization, and the editorial board of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment. She previously served on the executive of the Black Canadian Studies Association. She has received awards and honours from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, SSHRC, Transnational Environmental Law journal, and the American Society of International Law, among others.
