Dr Tracie Lea Scott
Dr Tracie Lea Scott
Assistant Professor
PhD, LLM, LLB, BA
Tracie has been working in the area of Indigenous law, Human Rights, and Constitutional law for 20 years. She is a member of the Law Society of Alberta (Canada) with experience in tax law and commercial law, and has also worked for the Ministry of Justice (UK) in the civil law division reforming trust law. She is the author of the book Postcolonial Sovereignty? The Nisga'a Final Agreement, and other publications on Indigenous rights, human rights, property and constitutional issues. In recent years she has been researching the role of the law in sustainable development.
Areas of interest
- Constitutional law, Human rights, Property law, Sustainable development, Law and economics, Commercial law
Qualifications
1995 – 1999 BA in English and History
1999 – 2002 LLB
2003 – 2004 LLM
2004 – 2010 PhD (Law)
Background
Tracie has lectured in the UAE for seven years. She has previously worked as a lawyer for the Department of Justice, Canada, and as a policy official for the Ministry of Justice, UK passing the Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 2010.