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Melanie Janelle Murchison is an Instructor II in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Manitoba. She previously taught in the Department of Sociology and at the Centre for Law, Society, and Justice at the University of Wisconsin - Madison from 2015 to 2021. In 2016, Dr. Murchison served as a Co-Investigator on a British Academy Leverhulme Grant with Dr. Alex Schwartz, focusing on ethnic voting behaviour in the Constitutional Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Her work resulted in the publication of the article 'Judicial Impartiality and Independence in Divided Societies: An Empirical Analysis of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina' in the Law and Society Review. Murchison’s recent academic contributions include research on legal pedagogy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighted in her article 'Remote Learning in Law School During the Pandemic – A Canadian Survey' published in the Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law in late 2022. Her research interests encompass Criminology, socio-legal studies, Gender-based violence, Gender crime, Comparative criminology, and Legal pedagogy.
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