Kevin W. Gray

I am currently an LLM student at Columbia University in New York City and an adjunct professor at Fordham University. I also maintain a small law practice in public and constitutional law in Toronto.

I was previously counsel and before that an articling student at the Government of Ontario (Crown Law - Civil Division), where I practiced public, constitutional and aboriginal law. I was previously a visiting scholar in philosophy at Boston College and the University of Frankfurt, and in law at Osgoode Hall Law School, and the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. I was also Assistant Professor of International Studies (with tenure) and Director of the Gulf Studies Center at the American University of Sharjah (AUS). I ran the Mooting Program at (AUS), coaching teams in the Jessup, Ferrell, and ICC Moot Competitions.

I hold a PhD from Laval University in legal and political philosophy (2011) and a JD from Osgoode Hall Law School (2020). As a visiting scholar at Boston College I audited courses in philosophy and law at BC and Harvard Law School, and in graduate school studied at the Free University of Brussels, and the University of Frankfurt. I received my Hon BSc in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Toronto (2000).

My current research focuses on the relationship between critical theory and international law. My monograph, Parliamentary Sovereignty, International Law and Human Rights, which investigates the impact of international human rights law on common law constitutions, is under contract with Routledge Press (forthcoming 2021). I am also writing a monograph with Thomas W. Simon, entitled the Birth and Death of Legal Radicalism (under contract with Springer).

I am also the general editor and the international law area editor of the Springer Global Encyclopaedia of Territorial Rights (https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-319-68846-6).

As part of my ongoing interest in international education, I also co-edit, with Hassan Bashir, a book series at Lexington Books on the spread of branch and foreign campuses in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Our book, Western Higher Education in the Middle East and North Africa, edited with Stephen Keck, was published in 2016 by Lexington Press.