Julie Ada is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law (Common Law Section), University of Ottawa. She was the Allan Rock Visiting Professor (2023-2024) and a Shirley Greenberg Fellow in Women and the Legal Profession (2021-2023). She teaches/has taught Property Law, Immigration and Refugee Law, Theory and Practice of Social Justice, Race, Gender and Canadian Legal Culture, Comparative Law, Applied Learning and Equal Justice Advocacy.
Julie focuses her research on international human rights law, comparative law, law and gender, law and culture and human rights in cross-cultural perspectives. She has a particular interest in policy reforms and projects that develop strategies to address social issues affecting women and girls, with a specific focus on the intersections of gender, culture, equality, and the law. Julie’s published work has touched on such topics like violence against women, human rights, legal pluralism, harmful traditional practices, the moral culpability of women who abuse children and the feminisation of culture and religion.
Her recent work appears or is forthcoming in Human Rights Law Review, International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, The International Journal of Human Rights, International Journal of Law in Context, Global Journal of Comparative Law and others.
Julie completed her first LLM at the University of Cape Town (South Africa) specialized in International Human Rights Law, followed by a second LLM at McGill University specialized in Comparative law. Julie also holds a PhD from the University of Ottawa. Julie is a member of the Law Society of Ontario and remains engaged as a litigator in family and immigration law.