Sarah-jane Nussbaum
Sarah-jane Nussbaum is an Assistant Professor at UNB Law, where she teaches Criminal Law, the Advanced Criminal Law Seminar and Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility. Her scholarship critically examines the criminal law’s roles in furthering systemic oppression, with a particular focus on sentencing and legal education.
Sarah-jane holds a PhD in Law from Osgoode Hall Law School, where she was awarded a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship. She also holds an LLM degree from the University of Cambridge, where she was a recipient of the Right Honourable Paul Martin Sr. Scholarship, a JD from the University of Saskatchewan, where she was awarded the Law Society of Saskatchewan Gold Medal and a BA in Linguistics from the University of Saskatchewan.
Prior to pursuing graduate studies, Sarah-jane served as a Law Clerk to the Honourable Justice Georgina Jackson, the Honourable Justice John Klebuc and the Honourable Justice Ralph Ottenbreit of the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan. She joined the Saskatchewan bar in 2015 and continues as an inactive (non-practising) member.
Sarah-jane currently serves on the Board of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers. In 2023, she received the UNB Faculty of Law Teaching Excellence Award.
Publications
Sarah-jane Nussbaum, “Listening to Prisoners’ Voices in a Criminal Law Class”, forthcoming in the Canadian Legal Education Annual Review [peer-reviewed].
Sarah-jane Nussbaum, “Risk's Relations: Dangerous Offender Decisions, Risk Assessment Tools, and State Accountability for Colonial Oppression” (2024) 55:2 Ottawa Law Review 281 [peer-reviewed].
Sarah-jane Nussbaum, “Bound by Blame: Sentencing, Colonialism, and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder” (2023) 39 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1 [peer-reviewed].
Sarah-jane Nussbaum, “Critique-Inspired Pedagogies in Canadian Criminal Law Casebooks: Challenging ‘Doctrine First, Critique Second’ Approaches to First-Year Law Teaching” (2021) 44:1 Dalhousie Law Journal 209 [peer-reviewed].
Sarah-jane Nussbaum, “Diminishing Protection of Subjective Fault? A Case Comment on R. v. A.D.H.” (2014) 77:2 Saskatchewan Law Review 279 [peer-reviewed].
Sarah-jane Nussbaum, Book Note on In Defence of Principles: NGOs and Human Rights in Canada by Andrew S. Thompson (2013) 76:1 Saskatchewan Law Review 187.
