Priscylla Joca
Assistant Professor Lincoln Alexander School of Law Toronto, Ontario priscylla.joca@torontomu.ca
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Priscylla Joca is an assistant professor at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law. Prior to joining the Faculty, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law. She holds a Doctor in Law (LL.D.) from the Université de Montreal. Her research was supported by a Joseph-Arm...
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Priscylla Joca is an assistant professor at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law. Prior to joining the Faculty, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law. She holds a Doctor in Law (LL.D.) from the Université de Montreal. Her research was supported by a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Her dissertation focused on free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC) and self-determination, analyzing the legal-political potentialities and challenges of applying protocols developed by Indigenous peoples and traditional communities to guide consultation and consent processes.
Her research navigates the intersections among multiple legal traditions and legal orders—including Indigenous, international human rights, and state laws—with particular attention to comparative legal studies between Canada and Brazil. Her research also explores how Indigenous peoples and traditional local communities articulate their own laws and rights, challenging conventional state-centred legal frameworks and advancing decolonial approaches to environmental and ecological justice. She is particularly interested in self-determination, territorial rights, and the free, prior, and informed consent of these peoples and communities, adopting an interdisciplinary and critical approach that encompasses both social and environmental sciences to provide a comprehensive perspective on these crucial matters.
As a non-Indigenous researcher, Joca believes that her role as a legal researcher involves building collaborations and partnerships with Indigenous peoples and traditional communities who are leading struggles for self-determination and who are key actors in the development of laws, legal strategies and policies to address social, environmental, and ecological justice and climate change.
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Her research navigates the intersections among multiple legal traditions and legal orders—including Indigenous, international human rights, and state laws—with particular attention to comparative legal studies between Canada and Brazil. Her research also explores how Indigenous peoples and traditional local communities articulate their own laws and rights, challenging conventional state-centred legal frameworks and advancing decolonial approaches to environmental and ecological justice. She is particularly interested in self-determination, territorial rights, and the free, prior, and informed consent of these peoples and communities, adopting an interdisciplinary and critical approach that encompasses both social and environmental sciences to provide a comprehensive perspective on these crucial matters.
As a non-Indigenous researcher, Joca believes that her role as a legal researcher involves building collaborations and partnerships with Indigenous peoples and traditional communities who are leading struggles for self-determination and who are key actors in the development of laws, legal strategies and policies to address social, environmental, and ecological justice and climate change.
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