Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce that Yasmin Dawood will be joining the Faculty in July of 2009, after completing her two year SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University's Centre for Ethics.

Yasmin received her Honours B.A. in Political Science from U of T.  She went on to earn a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, a recipient of the Young B. Smith Prize, and served as Articles Editor of the Columbia Law Review.  Yasmin received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where she was a Mellon Fellow. Her dissertation "Judicializing Democracy: Power, Politics, and Constitutional Design" was recently nominated for the Corwin Award, which is given by the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation in public law.

Yasmin's research and teaching interests include American and Canadian constitutional law, democratic and liberal theory, election law, and comparative constitutional law, theory, and politics. She has published extensively in such journals as the Georgetown Law Journal (forthcoming); the Maryland Law Review; International Journal of Constitutional Law; The Good Society; Studies in Law, Politics and Society; and the Columbia Law Review.