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Reakash Walters is a Canadian lawyer and doctoral student at the Berkeley School of Law. He is a Research Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Institute to End Mass Incarceration. Walters' scholarship focuses on the constitutive power of race in criminal legal institutions. His doctoral research is generously supported by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, including the full Robbins JSD Fellowship. He completed his Master of Laws at Columbia University as a Fulbright Scholar and Davis Polk Fellow with high honors, and earned his J.D. cum laude from the University of Ottawa. Reakash has served as a law clerk for Justice Sheilah Martin at the Supreme Court of Canada. Prior to graduate school, he practiced as a criminal defense lawyer at a top criminal law firm in Toronto, Ontario, and has appeared before all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada in R v Beaver, 2022 SCC 54, a leading constitutional criminal law case that clarifies the test for the admission of evidence in criminal law trials. Currently, Walters also serves on the board of the Canadian Law and Society Association (CLSA), an intellectual gathering place for socio-legal scholarship.
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