Reem A Bahdi, Associate Dean

Presentations and Commissioned Papers

  • Islamophobia and Attitudinal Bias Against Arabs and Muslims in Canada, Affidavit in Canadian Arab Federation v. The Minister of Citizenship and Immigration (Federal Court, Court File: T-447-09, 2009)
  • Racial Profiling of Arabs and Muslims: The American Experience After 9/11, Expert Report prepared for Quebec's Human Rights Commission in relation to Javed Latif v. Bombardier Inc. (2009)
  • Teaching Across Difference: The Case of Palestine (International Association of Law Schools Conference on Teaching Across Differences, 2008)
  • Tort Law Meets Administrative Law (Symposium Honouring Rose Voyvodic, 2008)
  • Women's Access to Justice In The Middle East (Middle East Studies Association, Montreal, 2007)
  • Prospects For A Special Advocate Regime Post-Charkaoui (Ontario Bar Association, The Charter At 25, 2007)
  • Racial Profiling of Arabs and Muslims in Canada (BC Civil Liberties Association Conference on Racial Profiling, 2007)
  • Human Dignity as a Human Right (Conference on International Law and the Middle East, International Development and Research Corporation, University of Western Ontario, University of Exeter, 2006, with Mervat Rishmawi)
  • The Hanging of Angelique: Torture and the Administration of Justice (University of Michigan, Faculty of Law and University of Windsor Department of History Conference on Slavery and Freedom in the Atlantic World, 2006)
  • Judicial Impact Theory and Palestinian Judges (Second World Congress on Middle East Studies, Legal Reform in the Arab World, 2006)
  • Constructing Non-Citizens: Canada's Anti-Terrorism Legislation, Democracy at Crossroad? (Monash University, Prato Italy Campus, 2005)
  • Constructing Non-Citizens: Canada's Anti-Terrorism Legislation, (University of Windsor, Center for Social Justice Conference on Globalization and Human Rights, 2005)
  • The Rule of Law, Human Dignity and State Building Through Judicial Education (Birzeit University, Conference on The Judiciary and The Rule of Law, 2005)
  • Reform of the RCMP Oversight Mechanisms, (Commission of Inquiry Into The Actions of Canadian Officials In Relation to Maher Arar, Policy Review, 2005)
  • The Impact of 9/11 on Arabs and Muslims in Canada (Commission of Inquiry Into The Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar, Factual Inquiry, 2005)
  • Expert Report about The Current Situation of Iraqi Women (Commissioned for an immigration appeal in the U.K. (the matter of Amna and Hanna Kadhim (Appellants) and the Secretary of State for the Home Department, 2004)
  • Report: Canada's Contribution to Legal Reform in West Bank and Gaza (Commissioned by Foreign Affairs Canada, 2004)
  • Interpreting Virtue: Women and the world Wide Rule of International Texts (University of Michigan, Faculty of Law Conference on Feuding Paradigms, Individualism vs. Collectivism in Women's International Human Rights, 2002)
  • Racial Profiling and Anti-Terrorism (Osgoode Hall Law School Panel on Civil Liberties and Civil Disobedience, 2002)
  • The Inter-American system of Human Rights Protection and Women's Social and Economic rights, (National Association of Women and the Law, 2002)
  • Canada's Gender Guidelines: The 10 Year Review (McMaster University Conference, Refugee Women Re-Claim Their Identities, 2002)
  • The Internet and Human Rights (Court Challenges Programme, Annual Strategic Planning Conference, 2002)
  • Using the Internet to Advance Women's Rights, The Internet and International Law (American Society of International Law, 2000)