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Reakash Walters is a Canadian lawyer, doctoral student at Berkeley School of Law, and Part-time Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Common Law Faculty. She is also a Research Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Institute to End Mass Incarceration. Walters is called to the bar of Ontario and has served as a law clerk to Justice Sheilah Martin at the Supreme Court of Canada.
- BFA in Communications, MacEwan University
- JD, University of Ottawa (cum laude)
- LLM, Columbia Law School (High Honors, Fulbright Scholar, Davis Polk Fellow)
- Doctoral student, Berkeley School of Law
Her scholarship examines the constitutive role of race in criminal legal institutions, focusing on institutional design, alternative legal frameworks, and the criminalization of Black friendship and kinship. She integrates over a decade of community organizing in racial justice, housing justice, and human rights advocacy into her legal scholarship. Walters co-founded Manhattan Courtwatch, a project highlighting systemic harms in the criminal legal system, and is piloting Nova Scotia’s first Africentric Justice Strategy to address community safety through restorative and transformative justice mechanisms.
While her publications include the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law and the Globe and Mail, with forthcoming work in the University of Ottawa Press and the International Encyclopaedia of Restorative Justice, her research is funded by SSHRC and a Robbins JSD Fellowship. She actively contributes to academic governance as a board member of the Canadian Law and Society Association and the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF).
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