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I am a practicing human rights lawyer in Toronto, Canada with experience at various social administrative tribunals and levels of court. I’ve had the privledge of working with NGOs like EcoJustice and Pivot Legal and hope to continue working towards law reform now that I’ve settled in Toronto.
My interest in marginalized perspectives, identities and the epistemological violence of law, policy and social design has encouraged my study of ethics and art in such philosophers as Levinas, JL Nancy and others. I’m presently collecting these thoughts as an “Ethics of Imagination” — the title of my masters thesis in law — which considers how “activist art” works as an intervention into the everyday and exemplifies the possibility of the otherwise in municipal and environmental law.
I also think (some) video games are digital art and am very interested in computer code as law and law as code, and how code might make legal promulgation and democracy more democratic through theories of the swarm, the rhizomatic, the generative/iterative, and through freeing textual production from the tyranny of two dimensional abstraction.
In 2008 I intend to make more of an effort to stay in touch with people, am looking forward to living in one city for more than 10 months, and hope to see Toronto establish the worlds most innovative and extensive inter-urban cycling network.