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Sara Ramshaw is a Full Professor at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law since 2021, specializing in arts-based approaches to law, improvisation studies, and critical legal theory. Her career spans institutions including Queen’s University Belfast, University of Exeter, and University of London (PhD). She clerked at the Ontario Court of Justice and was called to the Bar of Upper Canada (2000).
- Key Research Areas: Law and the Humanities, Music and Legal Ethics, Feminist/Intersectional Legal Theory, Poststructural Jurisprudence
- Leadership: Director of Cultural, Social and Political Thought (CSPT), co-leader of Translating Improvisation Research Group (QUB), and member of networks like Listening Network (UK) and Utopian Legalities Group (Australia)
Awards: Her monograph Justice as Improvisation (2013) was shortlisted for the 2014 SLSA Hart Book Prize. She secured UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding for child protection law projects in Northern Ireland. Her work has been featured in Law & Critique, Counterpress, and other editorial boards.
Public Engagement: Sara explores machine listening in family law, collaborating with composer Danilo Mandic on Law as Sonic Performance. She advocates for bespoke judicial solutions in family law, emphasizing attunement and imperfect listening as pathways to justice.
