L to R: Dr. Hadley Friedland and Dr. Ireh Iyioha
University of Alberta Faculty of Law Dean Paul Paton is very pleased to announce the appointments of Dr. Hadley Friedland and Dr. Ireh Iyioha as Visiting Assistant Professor, effective July 1, 2016, for a two-year term.
"The Visiting Assistant Professor program fosters the next generation of academic and teaching excellence at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law, and I look forward to Hadley and Ireh's contributions," said Dean Paton. "Both are tremendous scholars and teachers with much to offer students and the broader legal community. I am delighted that they have agreed to join us and we look forward to welcoming them this July."
Biographies:
Dr. Hadley Friedland has been Research Director of the Indigenous Law Research Unit at the University of Victoria since 2012 and was previously Research Coordinator for the Indigenous Bar Association's "Accessing Justice and Reconciliation Project." She articled with Justice Canada and was called to the Alberta bar in 2010. She has worked extensively with Indigenous communities across Canada, and spoken and published in the area of Indigenous legal traditions, as well as Aboriginal law, legal theory, criminal justice, family law, child welfare, restorative justice, and therapeutic jurisprudence. Prior to law school she worked with children, youth, and families for a decade, and currently serves on the board of the Chimo Youth Retreat Centre in Edmonton and the Aseniwuche Winewak Nation's justice and reconciliation committee. Dr. Friedland has won numerous awards for her graduate work, including a Vanier Scholarship (2011-2014) and the prestigious SSHRC Impact Talent Award (2013). Her LLM thesis, The Wetiko Legal Principles, exploring how Cree legal principles might apply today to issues of child victimization and intimate violence, is used widely in law schools across North America. Her PhD dissertation, Reclaiming the Language of Law: The Contemporary Articulation and Application of Cree Legal Principles in Canada, is nominated for a Governor General's Gold Medal. She holds degrees from the University of Victoria (LLB) and the University of Alberta (LLM, PhD).
Dr. Irehobhude (Ireh) Iyioha is currently Assistant Adjunct Professor of Health Law, Ethics and Policy at the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta. She researches and writes in the field of health law and policy. Dr. Iyioha is co-editor of the book Comparative Health Law and Policy: Critical Perspectives on Nigerian and Global Health Law (Ashgate, 2015) and has published in various Canadian and international journals. Her work has been cited in a Submission before the Joint Standing Committee on Migration (Inquiry into the Treatment of Disability) in Australia and she has an entry in the Encyclopedia of Immigrant Health. Prior to joining the University of Alberta in 2011 as a Visiting Academic, she was Assistant Professor and holder of an Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation Postdoctoral Research Award at Western University and a Lecturer-in-Law at the University of British Columbia. Outside the academy, Dr. Iyioha has served in various policy capacities with both Alberta Health Services and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, and served as a reviewer on the Government of Alberta's Results Based Budgeting initiative. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the World Congress on Medical Law Award from the World Association for Medical Law, and most recently, the 2016 Canadian Immigrant of Distinction Award for outstanding achievements in professional and service capacities. Dr. Iyioha has been a Fellow of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Training Program in Health Law and Policy, a Liu Scholar at the UBC Liu Institute for Global Issues, and a member of the Clinical Ethics Committee of the University of Alberta and Stollery Children's Hospitals and the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute. She holds degrees from the University of Benin (LLB with Highest Honours), the University of Toronto (LLM), and the University of British Columbia (PhD).