Jocelyn Stacey
Associate Professor
ILS Academic Leadership Certificate Faculty Lead
B.Sc (Alberta), LL.B (Calgary), LL.M (Yale), D.C.L (McGill)
- Office:
Allard Hall, Room 351
- Phone: 604 822 8326
- Fax: 604 822 8108
- Email: stacey@allard.ubc.ca
Profile
Jocelyn Stacey is Associate Professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia. She researches environmental crises and the visible and invisible ways in which law creates, regulates and prevents these events. Her work focuses on environmental assessment law, disaster law, climate change, emergency powers and the rule of law. Her first book, The Constitution of the Environmental Emergency (Hart Publishing, 2018) addresses what the rule of law requires in light of our vulnerability to catastrophic environmental harm. A profile of her work on environmental emergencies and the rule of law can be found on the Research Portal.
With funding from SSHRC, Professor Stacey’s current work investigates how law regulates disaster as disconnected and exceptional events, contrary to the experiences of those most vulnerable to disaster and in spite of our current era of climate disruption. You can read about this project on the Research Portal.
Professor Stacey works closely with First Nations on legal issues related to disasters, emergency powers and Indigenous jurisdiction. She is President of the Pacific Centre for Environmental Law and Litigation, a non-profit society dedicated to training law students and young lawyers in public interest environmental law litigation. She served on the Research Council for the Public Order Emergency Commission (2022-2023), which inquired into the first invocation of Canada’s Emergencies Act. Prior to her academic career, she clerked for the Honourable Justice Marshall Rothstein at the Supreme Court of Canada.
Professor Stacey supervises graduate students in the areas of disaster law, environmental assessment law, and the intersection between Canadian environmental law and Indigenous legal orders. If you are interested in researching in one of these areas, please send an email with a brief research proposal. Professor Stacey teaches Environmental Law, Administrative Law, and Aboriginal and Treaty Rights at UBC.
Research and Publications
To learn more about my research, please visit my PURE Research profile. You can also access my works on the following sites:
- Allard Research Commons / bepress Legal Repository Search
- SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
- HeinOnline
- Google Scholar
Courses
- Environmental Law
- Administrative Law
- Aboriginal and Treaty Rights
Publications
Books:
The Constitution of the Environmental Emergency (Hart Publishing, 2018)
Reports:
Governing Emergencies in an Interjurisdictional Context (Public Order Emergency Commission, 2023)
Dada Nentsen Gha Yatastig/Tŝilhqot’in in the Time of COVID (Tsilhqot’in National Government, 2021) (with Crystal Verhaeghe and Emma Feltes)
Nagwediẑk'an gwaneŝ gangu ch'inidẑed ganexwilagh (The Fires Awakened Us) (Tsilhqot’in National Government, 2019) (with Crystal Verhaeghe and Emma Feltes)
Recent Publications:
"Access to Environmental Justice in Canadian Environmental Impact Assessment" (2024) 9 FACETS 1 (with Thomas Gilmour)
Special Issue: Canada's Emergencies Act: Beyond the Rouleau Report (2023) 46 Manitoba Law Journal (co-edited with Nomi Claire Lazar)
“Crisis, Colonialism and Constitutional Habits: Indigenous jurisdiction in times of emergency” (2023) 38:1 Canadian Journal of Law and Society 1 (with Emma Feltes and the Tŝilhqot’in National Government)
“’Add Women and Stir’: The Potential and Limits of GBA+ in Canadian Impact Assessment Law” (2022) 34:2 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 214 (with Isabelle Lefroy)
“The Public Law Paradoxes of Climate Emergency Declarations” (2022) Transnational Environmental Law forthcoming
“Climate Disruption in Canadian Constitutional Law: References re Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act” (2021) 33:3 Journal of Environmental Law 711
“Environmental Law” in Craig Forcese et al, eds, TheFederal Courts 50thAnniversary(Irwin Law, 2021)
“The Deliberative Dimensions of Modern Environmental Assessment Law” (2020) 43:2 Dalhousie Law Journal 865
“Vulnerability, Disaster Law and ‘the Beast’” (2018) 55.4 Alberta Law Review 853
“The Environmental, Democratic and Rule-of-Law Implications of Harper’s Environmental Assessment Legacy” (2016) 21:2 Review of Constitutional Studies 165
“The Promise of the Rule of (Environmental) Law” (2016) 53 OHLJ 681
“Can Pragmatism Function in Administrative Law?” (2016) Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 211 (Judicial Restraint: The Life and Law of Marshall E Rothstein) forthcoming (with Alice Woolley)
“Doctoral Studies in Law: From the Inside Out” (2016) 39 Dal LJ 221 (with Dia Dabby and Bethany Hastie)
“The Environmental Emergency and the Legality of Discretion in Environmental Law” (2015) 52 OHLJ 983
“The Rule-of-Law Underpinnings of Endangered Species Protection: Minister of Fisheries and Oceans v David Sukuzi Foundation, 2012 FCA 40” (2014) 27 JELP 57
You can find Professor Stacey’s publications on the Allard Research Commons and on SSRN
Organization Affiliations
- Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
- Centre for Law and the Environment
- Indigenous Legal Studies
Research Interests
- Aboriginal and Indigenous law
- Administrative law and regulatory governance
- Environmental law, natural resources, and climate change
- Jurisprudence, legal theory, and critical studies
- Public and constitutional law
What does the rule of law demand of environmental decision-makers in light of our ever-present vulnerability to environmental disaster?