Joshua Sealy-Harrington

Publications

• The Charter of Whites: Systemic Racism and Critical Race Equality in Canada (chapter in Constitutional Crossroads Reflections on Charter Rights, Reconciliation, and Change; UBC Press; eds Emmett Macfarlane and Kate Puddister; forthcoming)
  
• Critical Racial Profiling (Criminal Lawyers’ Association of Ontario – For The Defence; Aug 2021)
  
• The Alchemy of Equality Rights (external link)  (Constitutional Forum; May 2021)
• Access to (In)justice: A Critical Race Reflection (external link)  (The Lawyer’s Daily – Guest Column in former Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin’s Access to Justice Series; Mar 2021)
  
• Untelling the Story of Race (external link)  (The Walrus; Jul 2020)
  
• Twelve Angry (White) Men: The Constitutionality of the Statement of Principles (external link)  (Ottawa Law Review; Mar 2020)
• Colour as a Discrete Ground of Discrimination (external link)  (Canadian Journal of Human Rights; Jun 2018; co-authored with Professor Jonnette Watson Hamilton)
• Assessing Analogous Grounds: The Doctrinal and Normative Superiority of a Multi-Variable Approach (external link)  (University of Toronto Journal of Law & Equality; May 2013)

Media

• Was justice served in the Ahmaud Arbery case? Not even close (external link)  (The Globe and Mail; Nov 2021; co-authored with Reakash Walters)
• Canada’s courts need a system update to deal with internet-connected juries (external link)  (The Globe and Mail; Nov 2020; co-authored with Reakash Walters and Anthony Morgan)
• Body cameras are not an answer to systemic police violence – they undermine the push for defunding (external link)  (The Globe and Mail; Jun 2020)

Invited Lectures

• Seeing Black History, Seeking Black Equality (Lakehead Law School Black Law Students’ Association Black History Month Symposium; Feb 28, 2022)
• Reading Race in Law: Critical Race Theory, Education and Adjudication (Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench and University of Alberta Faculty of Law Joint Judicial Symposium; Jan 25, 2022)
• Critical Race Theory and the Legal Profession (County of Carleton Law Association in collaboration with the Canadian Association of Black Lawyers, the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers, and the Canadian Hispanic Bar Association; Nov 4, 2021) 
  
• Putting Speech and Equality in Conversation, not Opposition (Canadian Association of Law Libraries Annual Conference; May 6, 2020)