Jodi Lazare
Associate Professor of Law; Associate Dean, Academic
Email: jodi.lazare@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-1034
Fax: 902-494-1316
Mailing Address:
6061 University Avenue
PO Box 15000
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2
- Family law
- Gender and economic consequences of family breakdown
- Retroactive Child Support
- Nonhuman animals and the law
- Animal Rights Activism and the Constitution
- Ag-Gag Legislation and Freedom of Expression
Education
- Ba. (McGill)
- Grad. Dipl. Journalism (Concordia)
- LL.L. (Ottawa)
- JD (Ottawa)
- LLM (McGill)
- DCL (McGill)
Bio
Jodi came to the Schulich School of Law as the 2014-2015 Schulich Fellow and then as a part-time faculty member before being appointed an assistant professor in 2017. She holds a Doctor of Civil Law from McGill University. As a law student, Jodi worked in both small and large private practice. Jodi completed her articles as a law clerk to the Honourable Mr. Justice Michael Moldaver at the Supreme Court of Canada. She is a member of the Law Society of Ontario. She was appointed associate dean (academic) at the Schulich School of Law in 2024.
Description of Research
Professor Lazare's family law research examines the economic and non-economic consequences of family breakdown, including the practice of judicial reliance on the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines, the underlying theoretical bases of the spousal support obligation, and the law of聽retroactive child support聽and its effects on women聽and children. Where nonhuman animals are concerned,聽she聽has written about聽legal models of companion animal ownership聽and is currently examining the constitutional dimensions of animal rights activism and the constitutionality of Canadian ag-gag legislation.
Teaching
- LAWS 2191: Animals and the Law
- LAWS 2016: Constitutional Law聽
- LAWS 2110: Family Law
- LAWS 1008: Introduction to Legal Ethics
- LAWS 2039: Laskin Moot聽