Joshua Michael Sealy-Harrington

Joshua is an Associate Professor and the Chair of Equality Law at the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law, where he teaches about constitutional law, equality rights, and critical legal theory. He is also a doctoral student at Columbia Law School, where his research explores the promise and limitations of “identity” in socio-legal discourse. His academic work infuses his legal practice, which marries complex legal theory with practical advocacy. In 2019, he received a Canadian Law Blog Award for his online advocacy on behalf of race, gender, and sexual minorities. In 2021, he received a Part-time Professor Award for Excellence in Teaching from the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, where he taught “Race, Racism and the Law”. And in 2024—when he was an Assistant Professor at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University—he was awarded Professor of the Year by the Lincoln Alexander School of Law Students’ Society and Person of the Year by the Toronto Metropolitan Faculty Association.

Joshua has completed three judicial clerkships, two at the Supreme Court of Canada (for Justice Clément Gascon) and one at the Federal Court (for Justice Donald J. Rennie, now of the Federal Court of Appeal). He also worked for two years as a litigator in commercial law, intellectual property law, and constitutional law at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. His core expertise relates to public, constitutional, and criminal law. And his practice centres on appellate advocacy, including consulting on all aspects of advocacy before the Supreme Court of Canada.

Joshua is also an avid writer and presenter. He has authored several peer-reviewed publications as well as articles for The Globe and Mail , Newsweek , and The Walrus . His scholarship has been cited by the Federal Court, Federal Court of Appeal, and Supreme Court of Canada. Further, Joshua is a frequent media commentator, whose analysis has been featured on CBC News and CTV News . He often presents to government, academic, and private institutions on critical race theory and racial justice, including the Department of Justice, the National Judicial Institute, the Ministry of the Attorney General, the Criminal Lawyers’ Association, and The Advocates’ Society. He is most passionate, though, about speaking with equity-seeking groups, including the Black Law Students’ Association of Canada, the Indigenous