Sari Graben
Dr. Sari Graben is a Professor at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law, 91影视, where she previously served as Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies, and as Interim Associate Dean, Academic. In those roles she led the launch of the school's research program, including its Justice and Technology Initiative and International Law and Global Justice Initiative, as well as its Integrated Practice Curriculum and Professional Development Program.
Graben's scholarship examines how Canadian law recognizes collective identity.
Her work on Indigenous peoples focuses on regulatory institutions, emergent property systems, and risk. She is co-editor, with Angela Cameron and Val Napoleon, of Creating Indigenous Property: Power, Rights, and Relationships (2020), and her work has appeared in the University of Toronto Law Journal, University of British Columbia Law Review, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Leiden Journal of International Law, and Osgoode Hall Law Journal. She has held research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the New Frontiers in Research Fund for projects related to Indigenous peoples.
Her work on Jewish communities focuses on contemporary antisemitism, including antizionism, and law's response. She is editor of the forthcoming collection Emerging Issues in Antisemitism and Canadian Law, which asks whether law can address the harms Jews have experienced across Canada since October 7th as a minority whose identity spans religion, culture, nationality, and ethnicity. Graben has held research grants to support the work and presents on responses to antisemitism across the country.
Before joining Lincoln Alexander Law, Graben was counsel at a large national law firm, adjunct faculty at Queen's University Faculty of Law, and Associate Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management. She has been a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Faculty of Law; a Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at the University of Washington; and Visiting Scholar at Tel Aviv University's Buchmann Faculty of Law and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Faculty of Law. She is a recipient of the President's Blue and Gold Award for Staff Excellence (2020) and the Dean's Scholarly Research and Creativity Award (2015), and has served on the executive of the Ontario Bar Association's Aboriginal Law Section and the Board of Directors of Interval House (Kingston).
Books
S. Graben, Creating Indigenous Property: Power, Rights and Relationship (with Angela Cameron, Val Napoleon,eds.) (University of Toronto Press, 2020).
Selected Publications
Difficulties with Legal Design and Emodules: Teaching Emotional and Cultural Competence to Law Students, 2024:1 Canadian Legal Education Annual Review 1- 20 (with Page MacRae)
鈥淚ndigenous Women and Representation Clauses in Impact Benefit Agreements,鈥� in Dwight Newman and Ibronke Odumosu (eds.), UNDRIP and Impact Benefit Agreements (Routledge 2021), (with Angela Cameron and Sarah Morales).
Law & Technology in Legal Education: A Systemic Approach at Ryerson (2021) 58:1 Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 139-162
Aboriginal Title in Tsilhqot鈥檌n: 鈥淚ndigenous Property Law at the Supreme Court of Canada,鈥� in Angela Cameron, Sari Graben and Val Napoleon (eds.), Creating Indigenous Property: Power, Rights, and Relationship (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020), (with Christian Morey).
鈥淪tories and the Participation of Indigenous Women in Natural Resource Governance鈥� (2020) Canadian Journal of Women and the Law (with Patricia Hania) 310-340.
鈥淎boriginal Title and Controlling Liberalization: Use it Like the Crown鈥� (2019) 52:2 University of British Columbia Law Review, 435 (with Christian Morey).
鈥淧residents, Parliaments, and Legal Change: Quantifying the Effects of Political Systems in Comparative Environmental Law鈥� (2017) 35 Virginia Environmental Law Journal, 357-419 (with Eric Biber).
鈥淣egotiating Self-Government Over & Over & Over Again: Comparators and Pressure Points in Contemporary Treaties,鈥� in John Borrows and Michael Coyle (eds.), The Right(s) Relationship: Reimagining the Implementation of Historical Treaties (Toronto:University of Toronto Press, 2017), 164-184 (with Mathew Mehaffey).
鈥淣ested Regulation in Law and Development: Identifying Sites of Resistance and Reform鈥� (2016) 9:2 Law and Development Review, 233-268.
鈥淭ribunal Administration and the Duty to Consult: A Study of the National Energy Board鈥� (2015) 65:4 University of Toronto Law Journal, 382-433 (with Abbey Sinclair).
鈥淎rctic Networks and the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf鈥� (2015) 28:4 Leiden Journal of International Law, 771-797 (with Peter Harrison).
鈥淎dministering Consultation at the National Energy Board: Evaluating Tribunal Authority,鈥� in Patrick Macklem and Douglas Sanderson (eds.), From Reconciliation to Recognition: Essays on the Constitutional Entrenchment of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015) (with Abbey Sinclair).
鈥淩esourceful Impacts: Harm and Institutional Valuation of the Sacred鈥� (2014) 64:1 University of Toronto Law Journal, 64-105.
鈥淟essons for Indigenous Land Reform: From Membership to Ownership on Nisga鈥檃 Lands鈥� (2014) 47:2 University of British Columbia Law Review, 399-442.
鈥淢ind the Gap: The Importance of Local Institutional Development in Peacebuilding Security Interventions鈥� (2013) 13:3 Journal of Conflict Security and Development, 285-316 (with Ann Fitzgerald).
鈥淩ationalizing Risk to Culture in Resource Development鈥� (2013) 26:1 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, 83-114.
鈥淟iving in Perfect Harmony: Harmonizing Sub-Arctic Co-Management through Judicial Review鈥� (2011) 49:2 Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 199-236.
鈥淓valuating Stakeholder Participation in Sub-Arctic Co-Management: Administrative Rulemaking and Private Agreements鈥� (2011) 29:1 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, 195-221.
NFRF, Climate Changed Transportation: Holistic And Indigenous Informed Responses To Transportation Infrastructure, Food Security, And Community Well-Being In The Arctic Through Trans-National Knowledge Exchange, 2024, co-applicant (with Sapna Sharma et al)
SSRCH Insight Grant, Improving Financial Inclusion for Indigenous People in Urban and Rural Ontario, 2019, co-applicant, (with Norrman Shaw and Sonya Graci)
SSHRC Insight Development Grant, Indigenous Women And Impact Benefit Agreements, 2018, principal applicant, (with Angela Cameron and Sarah Morales)
SSHRC Indigenous Research Capacity and Reconciliation Connection Grant, Indigenous Administrative Law, 2018, principal applicant, (with Angela Cameron and Jeffery Hewitt)
91影视 Un Sustainable Development Goals Grant, Gender Assessment, Impact Benefit Agreements, 2017, principal applicant
Best Paper Award, 2018, Canadian Academy of Legal Studies in Business (Aboriginal Title: Looking for the Political in Property)
TRSM Dean鈥檚 Scholarly Research and Creative Activity Award, 2015
TRSM Internal Research Grant (Ryerson), 2014, principal applicant
SSHRC Institutional Grant (Ryerson), 2014, principal applicant
Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair, 2013
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2012-2013
Queen鈥檚 University Arctic Policy Fellowship, 2010-2012
| Degree | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|
| PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) | York University | 2010 |
| LLM (Master of Laws) | Queen鈥檚 University | 2004 |
| LLB (Bachelor of Laws) | Dalhousie University | 2000 |
| BA (Bachelor of Arts) | York University | 1996 |