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Dr. Estair Van Wagner is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, joining the faculty on July 1, 2024. Prior to this, she taught at Osgoode Hall Law School and the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria Wellington (Te Kauhanganui Tātai Ture) in Aotearoa New Zealand. She holds a BA from the University of Victoria, an MES/JD from York University and Osgoode Hall Law School, and a PhD from Osgoode Hall Law School (2017).
- BA – University of Victoria
- MES/JD – York University / Osgoode Hall Law School
- PhD – Osgoode Hall Law School, 2017
Her research and teaching focus on property law, natural resource law, planning law, and environmental justice, with particular attention to Indigenous rights, Aboriginal title, and relational legal frameworks with place and the more-than-human world. She explores how legal systems structure human and non-human relationships to land in both urban and rural contexts.
Dr. Van Wagner is actively involved in SSHRC-funded collaborative research, including a major project on Aboriginal title and private property on Vancouver Island, and ongoing work on Māori law and mining in Aotearoa New Zealand. Her scholarship increasingly informs policy and advocacy, particularly in the areas of housing rights and homelessness through collaboration with the Office of the Federal Housing Advocate.
She is interested in supervising LLM and PhD students in areas intersecting property, natural resources, housing, homelessness, and Indigenous legal orders.
