Iván Vargas Roncancio
Assistant Professor
Law and Society (LASO)
Office: 722 Ross Building South
Email: ivandvr@yorku.ca
Accepting New Graduate Students
Iván Darío Vargas-Roncancio, Ph.D Natural Resources Sciences (McGill University), acted as associate director for the Centre for Indigenous Conservation and Development Alternatives and held a post-doctoral position with the Leadership for the Ecozoic (L4E) program.
His research focuses on Earth law and the rights of nature; Indigenous legal cosmologies in Amazonia; anthropology of plant-human relations, and critical pedagogies.
Publications
He has published in the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, the Australian Feminist Law Journal, Sustainability, and the Boletín de Antropología, among others. Books: Pedagogies for the Ecozoic. Ecologies of Learning (co-author) (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), Law, Humans and Plants in the Andes-Amazon: The Lawness of Life (Routledge Law, Justice, and Ecology book series, 2024); Posthuman Legalities: New Materialism and Law Beyond the Human (co-editor) (Elgar, 2021).
Degrees
Ph.D. in Natural Resource Sciences (2021), McGill UniversityJ.D (2008) and an LL.M in Law and Bioscience (2011), National University of Colombia
Research Interests
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall/Winter 2025 | AP/SOSC4367 6.0 | A | Earth Law | SEMR |
| Fall/Winter 2025 | AP/SOSC4350 6.0 | C | Law and Society Honours Seminar | SEMR |
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall/Winter 2025 | AP/SOSC4350 6.0 | C | Law and Society Honours Seminar | SEMR |
| Fall/Winter 2025 | AP/SOSC4367 6.0 | A | Earth Law | SEMR |
Iván Darío Vargas-Roncancio, Ph.D Natural Resources Sciences (McGill University), acted as associate director for the Centre for Indigenous Conservation and Development Alternatives and held a post-doctoral position with the Leadership for the Ecozoic (L4E) program.
His research focuses on Earth law and the rights of nature; Indigenous legal cosmologies in Amazonia; anthropology of plant-human relations, and critical pedagogies.
Publications
He has published in the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, the Australian Feminist Law Journal, Sustainability, and the Boletín de Antropología, among others. Books: Pedagogies for the Ecozoic. Ecologies of Learning (co-author) (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), Law, Humans and Plants in the Andes-Amazon: The Lawness of Life (Routledge Law, Justice, and Ecology book series, 2024); Posthuman Legalities: New Materialism and Law Beyond the Human (co-editor) (Elgar, 2021).
Degrees
Ph.D. in Natural Resource Sciences (2021), McGill UniversityJ.D (2008) and an LL.M in Law and Bioscience (2011), National University of Colombia
Research Interests
All Publications
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall/Winter 2025 | AP/SOSC4367 6.0 | A | Earth Law | SEMR |
| Fall/Winter 2025 | AP/SOSC4350 6.0 | C | Law and Society Honours Seminar | SEMR |
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall/Winter 2025 | AP/SOSC4350 6.0 | C | Law and Society Honours Seminar | SEMR |
| Fall/Winter 2025 | AP/SOSC4367 6.0 | A | Earth Law | SEMR |
