Jennifer Orange
Jennifer Orange is an assistant professor in the Lincoln Alexander School of Law and part-time member of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. Prior to that, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Bill Graham Institute for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto, a member of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario and a litigator at Torys LLP.
Her interdisciplinary research investigates the ways that cultural institutions support the dissemination and evolution of human rights norms. Her work explains how human rights communities of practice that include both state and non-state actors can promote a human rights culture. Orange is also conducting research on the return of cultural artefacts to Indigenous communities. Orange's work is funded by grants from bodies such as the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
Orange has written in the areas of international law, constitutional law, human rights, truth and reconciliation, dispute resolution and museology, including publications in Human Rights Quarterly, the Canadian Journal of Human Rights, the UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, and the Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship. She has held a number of fellowships, including a Jackman Humanities Institute-Mellon Fellowship.
Papers in Peer-Reviewed Publications
“Women Talking: An Alchemy for Feminist Alternative Dispute Resolution (external link) ”, Vol. 20 No. 1 (2025) Journal of Law and Equality (with S. Khela).
“Bringing Canadian Human Rights Laws to the Centre of the Field: Addressing Policies That Restrict the Participation of Transgender Women in Women’s Sport Categories” (external link) , (2024) 12:1 Canadian Journal of Human Rights, 65-104.
“UNDRIP Matters: Connecting International and Domestic Law with Canadian Museum Practice on Repatriation” (July 2024) Vol XXIX, Issue 2, Art Antiquity and Law, 141-159.
Confronting discrimination with museology: Liberty Osaka and the emergence of human rights museums in Japan. In J. Carter (ed.), Human Rights Museums: Critical Tensions between Memory and Justice, London, UK, Routledge (2023) (with J. Carter).
The Right to the City as an Emerging Norm: Codification and Cultural Institutions. In S. Agrawal (ed.), Rights and the City: Problems, Progress, and Practice, Edmonton: University of Alberta Press (2022).
“The Work that Remains: Continuing the reconciliation work of legal tribunals through museums” (2018) 45:4 Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 597-612.
“Translating Law into Practice: Museums and a Human Rights Community of Practice” (2016) 38:3 Human Rights Quarterly, 706-735.
“Contentious Terrain: Developing a Human Rights Museology” (2012) 27:2 Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship, 111- 127 (with J. Carter).
“Emerging Duties: Protecting Canadians’ Human Rights Abroad” (2011) 28:2 National Journal of Constitutional Law, 207-233.
Other Refereed Publications
“A Step Towards Integrating the Women, Peace and Security Agenda into R2P” (2019) 1 The Canadian Journal on Responsibility to Protect, 55-61.
“Blurring the Boundaries of International Human Rights Law: The Human Rights Work of Museums” (2018) 22 UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, 188-217.
Dean's Service Award, 2024.
1L Professor of the Year, awarded by the JD students of the Lincoln Alexander School of Law (2023).
Insight Development Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), 2022-2024.
Senior Fellow, Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, 2019-present.
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, 2019-2021.
Member of Advisory Board and Senior Fellow, Canadian Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, The Munk School of Global Affairs, 2016-present.
Mellon Graduate Fellowship, Jackman Humanities Institute, 2016-2018.
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2016-2018.
Global Justice Fellow, The Munk School of Global Affairs, 2014-2017.
Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships, Doctoral, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), 2013-2016.
| Degree | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|
| SJD (Doctor of Juridical Science) | University of Toronto | 2019 |
| LLM (Master of Laws) | New York University | 2003 |
| LLB (Bachelor of Laws) | University of Toronto | 1998 |
| BA (Bachelor of Arts) | University of Pennsylvania | 1993 |
