Prof. Richard Devlin
Fellow
Current Employer
Dalhousie University
Election Year
2015
Academy
Academy of Social Sciences
Discipline
Law
Keywords
law, governance, lawyers, judges, ethics, regulation
Updated July 22, 2015
DEVLIN, Richard, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University
Richard Devlin is a dynamic, creative and internationally recognized scholar who draws on the insights of critical theory and radical democracy to analyse, critique, and reconstruct law and legal institutions. His work has exposed, and challenged, the ways that law excludes on the basis of class, race, gender and disability. More recently, he has spearheaded Canadian scholarship on legal / judicial ethics, and the regulation of both lawyers and judges.
DEVLIN, Richard, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University
Richard Devlin is a dynamic, creative and internationally recognized scholar who draws on the insights of critical theory and radical democracy to analyse, critique, and reconstruct law and legal institutions. His work has exposed, and challenged, the ways that law excludes on the basis of class, race, gender and disability. More recently, he has spearheaded Canadian scholarship on legal / judicial ethics, and the regulation of both lawyers and judges.
Updated July 22, 2015
Richard Devlin est un chercheur dynamique, créative et reconnu internationalement qui tire sur les apports de la théorie critique et la démocratie radicale afin d'analyser, critiquer, et reconstruire la loi et les institutions juridiques. Son travail a exposé et contesté, les moyens que la loi exclut sur la base de la classe, la race, le sexe et le handicap. Plus récemment, il a dirigé la recherche canadienne sur l'éthique juridique / judiciaire, et la règlementation des avocats et des juges.
Richard Devlin est un chercheur dynamique, créative et reconnu internationalement qui tire sur les apports de la théorie critique et la démocratie radicale afin d'analyser, critiquer, et reconstruire la loi et les institutions juridiques. Son travail a exposé et contesté, les moyens que la loi exclut sur la base de la classe, la race, le sexe et le handicap. Plus récemment, il a dirigé la recherche canadienne sur l'éthique juridique / judiciaire, et la règlementation des avocats et des juges.