Rate My Professor Amar Bhatia

Amar Bhatia is Associate Dean (Students) and Associate Professor in the Law faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. He joined the full-time faculty on July 1, 2014, after serving as Catalyst Fellow and Visiting Professor at Osgoode during the 2013-14 academic year. Prior to his academic career, Bhatia was called to the Ontario Bar in 2006, articled, and practiced union-side labour law. His educational background includes a BA from Queen's University, an MA from the University of Sussex, an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School, and both an LLM and SJD from the University of Toronto. In 2011, he received the Osgoode Teaching Excellence Award. Bhatia holds an SSHRC grant and contributes to research on immigration law, Indigenous and Aboriginal law.

Bhatia's research specializations encompass transnational migration, indigeneity, decolonizing law, Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), and settler colonialism. He co-edited the book Decolonizing Law: Indigenous, Third World and Settler Colonialism (2021). Key publications include 'We Are All Here to Stay? Indigeneity, Migration, and "Decolonizing" the Treaty Right to Be Here' (Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, 2013), 'The South of the North: Building on Critical Approaches to International Law with Lessons from the Fourth World' (2012), 'Reflections on Teaching Critical Migration Law in a Settler-Colonial Context' (2021), 'Statehood, Canadian Sovereignty, and the Attempted Domestication of Indigenous Legal Relations' (2021), and 'Indebted Impunity and Violence in a Lesser State: Ethno-Nationalism and Sovereign Debt in Sri Lanka' (Journal of International Economic Law, 2022). He has contributed to the launch of the Journal on International Law and the Global South and serves as Associate Dean (Students), influencing legal education and scholarship at the intersection of migration, indigeneity, and international law.