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Dr. Patricia Hania
Assistant Professor
DepartmentLaw and Business
EducationBAS, MBA, MES, LLB, LLM, PhD
Phone416-979-5000, ext. 544590
Overview
Patricia Hania is an Assistant Professor at the Law & Business Department, Ted Rogers School of Management. She recently joined the Ted Rogers School of Management in July 2017.
Patricia holds a PhD from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (York), Toronto. She also holds a LL.M. (Osgoode), LL.B. (Osgoode), M.E.S. (Faculty of Environmental Studies, York), MBA Grad. Dipl. (Schulich, York) and BAS, York.
As an interdisciplinary social-legal researcher, Patricia is interested in the interaction of market actors in natural resource governance regimes – in particular, water governance in Canada. Her research considers the intersection of law and policy to understand how norms interact, regulate and become embedded in legal sites of contested and complex decision-making.
- Publications
- Patricia Hania & Roxana, Suehring, “From Problem to Policy: Applying the Essential Use Concept to PFAS ‘Class Approach’ and Canada’s Environmental Protection Act, 1999” (forthcoming) , The Review of Enterprise and Trade Law: Manitoba Law Journal.
- Oluwatosin Aladekoyi (PhD Candidate) & Patricia Hania & Edward Millar & Kimberly Gilbride,“Strengthening Risk Management Strategies for Pharmaceutical Contaminants in Canada’s Freshwater Ecosystems” (April 2026) Vol. 178, Issue April 2026, Environmental Science & Policy, 104360.
- Oluwatosin Aladekoyi (PhD Candidate) & John Unuofin & Patricia Hania, & Rania Hamza & Kimberly Gilbride. “Environmental Discharge of Pharmacologically Active Compounds (PhACs): Elucidating the known, unknowns, and effective management strategies” (February 2026) Vol 21, Journal of Hazardous Material Advances, 101006.
- Patricia Hania & Rowan Brzezinski, “A Contested Waterscape: The Public’s Diminished Participation in Ontario’s Water Management Planning Process” (December 2025), Vol. 40; Issue 2, Journal of Law & Society, 249.
- Oluwatosin Aladekoyi (PhD Candidate) & Patricia Hania & Rania Hamza & Kimberley Gilbride. “Legislative and Precautionary Approaches to Managing Pharmaceutical Contaminants in Canadian freshwaters”, (August 25, 2025) Vol. 282, Water Research, 123714.
- Patricia Hania, “The Canada Water Act, 1970: Did Parliamentarians Seek Cooperative Federalism?" (September 2024). Volume 67, Issue 3. Journal of Canadian Public Administration 344.
- Oluwatosin Aladekoyi (PhD Candidate) & Salsabil Siddiqui (Masters Candidate) & Patricia Hania & Rania Hamza & Kimberley Gilbride, “Accumulation of Antibiotics in the Environment: Have Appropriate Measure Been Taken to Protect Canadian Human and Ecological Health?” (July 2024) Vol. 280., Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 116513.
- Zanina Ilieva (PhD candidate) & Patricia Hania & Roxana Suehring & Kimberley Gilbride & Rania Hamza, “Impact of PFAS of PFOS and PFOA on Secondary Sludge Microorganisms: Removal, Potential Toxicity and Implications on Existing Wastewater Treatment Plant Regulations in Canada” (2023), Vol 25, Environmental Sciences: Processes & Impacts,1604
- Patricia Hania & Sari Graben, “Stories and the Participation of Indigenous Women in Natural Resource Governance” (Dec. 2020) Vol. 32. Iss. 2, Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, 310.
- Patricia Hania “Revitalizing Indigenous Women’s Water Governance Roles in Impact and Benefit Agreements Through Indigenous Legal Orders and Water Stories” Les Cahiers de droit (June 2019) Vol. 60, Issue: 2, Laval Law Review, 519.
- H.Sanderson & R.S. Brown & P. Hania & T.A. McAllister & A Majury & S.N. Liss., Chapter 7 “Antimicrobial Resistant Genes and Organisms as Environmental Contaminants of Emerging Concern: Addressing Global Public Health Risks” in Management of Emerging Public Health Issues and Risks: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Changing Environment (London: Academic Press, 2019).
- Tracey Dowdeswell & Patricia Hania, “Regulating Water and War: A Dark Side of New Governance” (Summer, 2014)2 1:2 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies at 453.
- Patricia Hania, “Uncharted Waters: Applying the Lens of New Governance Theory to the Practice of Water Source Protection in Ontario” (2013) 24 Journal of Environmental Law and Practice 81.
- Patricia Hania, “Climate Change and the Protection of Drinking Water in Ontario: AnOpportunity to Adopt Adaptive Management?” (April, 2011) 22(2) Journal of Environmental Law and Practice 167.
- Patricia Hania, Finding Solutions For Environmental Conflicts: Power and Negotiation (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Press, 2008) by E. Christie (2009) 11(14) Environmental Law Review 318.