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Patricia Cochran joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria in 2014. She teaches courses on constitutional law, legal methodologies, feminist legal theories, statutory interpretation, as well as evidence law. She holds graduate degrees in law and political theory, and her research focuses on the intersection of these disciplines. Cochran's work critically engages with the theories of judgment and emphasizes the role of resource thinking in the demands for justice within a pluralistic and unequal context, specifically looking at issues related to colonialism. Her book, 'Common Sense Legal Judgment: Community Knowledge, Political Power Rhetorical Practice,' published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2017, challenges conventional notions surrounding judgment and knowledge. Currently, she is exploring themes in agonistic constitutionalism, multijural statutory interpretation, and the rhetorical dimensions of legal texts and judgments. Patricia is also interested in supervising LLM and PhD students who focus on legal political theory and constitutional law, particularly in areas such as relational approaches to law and the impact of technology on legal processes.
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