Role: Associate Professor; Associate Provost, McGill University
Montreal, Canada

  Contact: angela.campbell@mcgill.ca

  Research Interests:
Family Law | Health Law | Criminal Law | Wills and Estates | Children and the Law

Angela Campbell is a professor at McGill University’s Faculty of Law. Her research and teaching interests lie in the areas of family law, health law, criminal law, wills and estates and children and the law. She is a member, and former Convener, of McGill’s Research Group on Health and Law. She is also a member of the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and an associate member of the McGill Centre for Research on Children and Families. Between 2008 and 2012 she served as the Director of the McGill Institute of Comparative Law.

Angela earned her B.A. (Hons), B.C.L. and LL.B. degrees from McGill University, pursuant to which she completed her LL.M. at Harvard Law School as a Frank Knox fellow and a Langdon H. Gammon fellow. Prior to becoming a law professor at McGill, she clerked for The Honourable Mr. Justice Frank Iacobucci at the Supreme Court of Canada, and taught at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law (Common Law).

While at Emory, Angela worked with Martha Albertson Fineman to develop and refine her present research, which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. This work focuses on law’s conceptions of and responses to women’s choices made in connection with socially and morally controversial lifestyles, and draws on the examples of polygamy, paid surrogacy and prostitution as case studies.