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Annie Bunting

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Department of Social Science

Professor
Law & Society (LASO)

Office: 317 York Lanes, Tubman Institute
Phone: 416 736 2100 Ext: 20505
Email: abunting@yorku.ca
Primary website: Conjugal Slavery in War SSHRC Partnership


Annie Bunting is Professor of Law & Society at York University in Toronto, teaching in the areas of social justice and human rights. She holds the York Research Chair in International Gender Justice & Peacebuilding (2024-2029). Professor Bunting is a graduate of York, having studied law at Osgoode Hall Law School (1988). She received her LL.M. from the London School of Economics and Political Science (1991) and her S.J.D. from the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto (1999). Her research expertise includes socio-legal studies of marriage and childhoods, feminist international law, and culture, religion and law. She has published articles in Social and Legal Studies, Journal of Law and Society, Canadian Journal of Human Rights, and chapters in various book collections. Her recent edited collections include: Marriage by Force? Contestation over Consent and Coercion in Africa (with Lawrance and Roberts) Ohio Univ. Press (2016); and Contemporary Slavery: Popular Rhetoric and Political Practice (with Joel Quirk), UBC Press, Law & Society Series (2017).

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Annie Bunting is an Professor of Law and Society program at York University in Toronto, teaching in the areas of legal pluralism and human rights. Her research expertise includes socio-legal studies of marriage and childhoods, feminist international law, and culture, religion and law. She previously directed an international research collaboration on conjugal slavery in conflict situations with historians of slavery and women’s human rights activist scholars; this project includes partners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda, Canada and England. She is the co-editor of Marriage by Force? Contestation over Consent and Coercion in Africa (Ohio Univ. Press, 2016) with Benjamin Lawrance and Richard Roberts; and Contemporary Slavery: Popular Rhetoric and Political Practice (Univ. of British Columbia Press, 2017) with Joel Quirk. She is the Deputy Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas at York.

Degrees

Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.), University of Toronto
Master of Laws (LL.M. with Distinction), London School of Economics & Political Science, University of London
Bar Admission Course, Law Society of Upper Canada
Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Faculty of Arts (Philosophy), University of Western Ontario

Appointments

Faculty of Graduate Studies

Professional Leadership

Editorial Collective, African Studies Review; Editorial Board, Law & Society Review; Editorial Board, Transnational Human Rights Review; CLSA/ LSA Local Organizing Committee for Toronto joint meeting May 2018; Member, SSHRC Connections grant committee (2016-17); Chair, SSHRC Partnership Development Grant committee (2015-16)

Research Interests

Human Rights , Gender Issues, Critical Humanitarianism, Social Science