Jula Hughes
M.A., Ph.D., LL.B. of the Ontario Bar, Associate Professor.
Professor Hughes teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Wrongful Convictions as well as Labour Law and Collective Bargaining. She joined the faculty in 2006 after practicing labour, employment and human rights law in Ottawa and teaching at the University of Ottawa and Queen's law schools. Prior to her call to the bar, she clerked for Justice Ian Binnie of the Supreme Court of Canada. She was the co-chair of a review of New Brunswick's legal aid system commissioned by the provincial Minister of Justice in 2007 and counsel for the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission before the Supreme Court of Canada in New Brunswick (Human Rights Commission) v. Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc., 2008 SCC 45.
She is currently working on a critical edition of James Fitzjames Stephen's "History of the Criminal Law of England" to be published by Oxford University Press as well as a multi-disciplinary research project that follows Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools. She also researches and writes in the area of judicial ethics, particularly judicial disqualification.
