Nadia Lambek
Academic Degrees:
BA (Brown University); JD (Yale Law School);
SJD (University of Toronto)
| Email: | nlambek@uwo.ca |
| Phone: | 519-661-2111 x87543 |
| Office: | LB 110 |
Nadia Lambek joined the Faculty of Law in 2021 as an Assistant Professor. Her research explores law’s constitutive role in shaping our food systems, the engagement of social movements in law making, law's relation to the rural, and property law. She is also interested in critical theory, law and anthropology, and the law of work.
Professor Lambek is actively engaged in developing the field of food law and policy in Canada and is a founding member and current Board President of the Canadian Association for Food Law and Policy. She regularly collaborates with civil society organizations on issues of food system governance, including working with the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism to the UN Committee on World Food Security. She is a Faculty Member at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School, a co-leader of the International Law and Politics CRN for the Law and Society Association, and a co-editor of the Elements in International Law Series with Cambridge University Press.
Professor Lambek is seeking graduate students interested in utilizing critical theory and/or socio-legal methods to explore projects with an international dimension or connection to food system governance or the law of work.
Prior to her appointment at Western Law, Professor Lambek was a fellow at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School and at the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto. She previously practiced law focusing on the promotion and protection of workers’ rights, union-side labour law, and human rights. She also served as an advisor to two United Nations Special Rapporteurs on the right to food, an adjunct professor at Vermont Law School and a clerk at the Ontario Court of Appeal. She has a BA from Brown University, a JD from Yale Law School and an SJD from the University of Toronto, where she was a SSHRC Canada Graduate Doctoral Scholar to Honour Nelson Mandela and a John Peters Humphrey Fellow.
Research Highlights
Books
Rethinking Food Systems: Structural Challenges, New Strategies and the Law (Nadia Lambek, Priscilla Claeys, Adrienna Wong & Lea Brilmayer, eds., Springer 2014)
Articles
Nadia Lambek, “The UN Committee on World Food Security’s Break from the Productivity Trap”, 9(3-4) Transnational Legal Theory Journal 415 (2019)
Sarah Berger Richardson and Nadia Lambek, “Federalism and Fragmentation: Addressing the Possibilities of a Food Policy for Canada”, 5(3) Canadian Journal of Food Studies 28 (2018)
Nadia Lambek, “A Transformational Potential: The Right to Food’s Contribution to Addressing Malnutrition”, 43 UN Standing Committee on Nutrition News 75 (2018)
Nadia Lambek and Priscilla Claeys, “Institutionalizing a Fully Realized Right to Food: Progress, Limitations and Lessons Learned from Emerging Alternative Policy Models”, 40(4) Vermont Law Review 743 (2016)
Stephen Moreau and Nadia Lambek, “The Record on Judicial Review: Federal Court”, 29(1) Canadian Journal of Administrative Law and Practice 71 (2016)
Shaun O’Brien, Nadia Lambek and Amanda Dale, “Accounting for Deprivation: The Intersection of Sections 7 and 15 of the Charter in the Context of Marginalized Groups”, 35 National Journal of Constitutional Law 153 (2016)
Nadia Lambek, “The Right to Food: Reflecting on the Past and Future Possibilities”, 2(2) Canadian Journal of Food Studies 68 (2015)
Freya Kristjanson and Nadia Lambek, “Applying the Charter in Everyday Administrative Decision-Making”, 26(3) Canadian Journal of Administrative Law and Practice 195 (2013)
Nadia Lambek, “Imposing IP Compliance: Trends in the USTR Special 301 Reports for India and China from 2000-2008”, 2 The Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law 129 (2009)
Book Chapters
Jessica Duncan, Nadia Lambek and Priscilla Claeys, “The Committee on World Food Security: Politics Under Threat”, in Un Monde Sans Faim? Gouverner la Sécurité Alimentaire au 21e Siècle (Delphine Thivet and Antoine de Raymond, eds., 2021)
Nadia Lambek, “Social Justice and the Food System”, in Canadian Food Law and Policy (McLeod-Kilmurray, H., et. al., eds., Thomson Reuters, 2019)
Claire Debucquois and Nadia Lambek, “Extraterritorial Obligations of States and the Right to Food”, in Justice Beyond Borders: The Extraterritorial Reach of African Human Rights Instruments (L. Chenwi & T. Bulto, eds., Intersentia, 2018)
Nadia Lambek and Claire Debucquois, “National Courts and the Right to Food”, in Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics (Thompson, P.B., et. al., eds., Springer, 2014)
Nadia Lambek, “Respecting and Protecting the Right to Food: When States Must Get Out of the Kitchen”, in Rethinking Food Systems: Structural Challenges, New Strategies and the Law, (N. Lambek, et al., eds., Springer 2014)
Priscilla Claeys and Nadia Lambek, “In Search of Better Options: Food Sovereignty, the Right to Food and Legal Tools for Transforming Food Systems”, in Rethinking Food Systems: Structural Challenges, New Strategies and the Law, (N. Lambek, et al., eds., Springer 2014)
Reports and Submissions
Nadia Lambek, “Civil Society Report on the Use and Implementation of the Right to Food Guidelines”, for the Global Network on the Right to Food and Nutrition and the Civil Society Mechanism to the Committee on World Food Security (presented at the 45th meeting of the UN Committee on World Food Security) (2018)
Nadia Lambek, “Meeting Canada’s Human Rights Obligations: Integrating the Right to Food into the National Food Policy”, submitted to Agriculture and Agro-Food Canada as part of the consultation process for the first national food policy (2017)
Nadia Lambek, “National Food Policy Briefing Note: Legal Obligations on the Right to Food” (2017)
Nadia Lambek and Food Secure Canada, “Briefing Note: Realize the Human Right to Food” (2017)
Nadia Lambek, “Farm Workers in Ontario: How the Law Creates Insecurity for Agricultural Workers and the Importance of Building Democracy through the Food System”, in Ecological Farm Internship Report: Models, Experience & Justice (Michael Ekers & Charles Levkoe, eds., 2017)
Nadia Lambek, “10 Years of the Right to Adequate Food Guidelines: Progress, Obstacles and the Way Ahead”, for the Global Network on the Right to Food and Nutrition and the Civil Society Mechanism to the Committee on World Food Security (presented at the 41st meeting of the FAO, Committee on World Food Security) (2014)
