CFLS Lecture Series with Zoë Sinel

Zoë Sinel is an Associate Professor at Western Law. She researches and teaches in private law and legal theory, with a particular focus on the law of torts and its remedies.

She has published doctrinal and theoretical work in leading domestic and international law journals, including the University of Toronto Law Journal, the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the Torts Law Journal, and the Restitution Law Review. Her current research project is a SSHRC-funded monograph on tort law’s treatment of emotions, entitled Just Feelings: A Tort Law Theory of Emotion. She was a founding member of another SSHRC-funded project, the Tort Law and Social Equality Project, a website devoted to the creation of a network of tort law scholars to engage with the social contexts in which tort law develops and the marginalized groups it affects.

She was awarded Western University’s Faculty Scholar designation from 2020-2022 and is currently editor, alongside Andrew Botterell, of the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence. She is also an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies.

Prior to her appointment in 2013, Professor Sinel was a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School. She completed her doctorate in law (SJD) at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Ernest Weinrib.