Dr Veronica Fynn Bruey

Positions

Africa-Oxford Visiting Fellow, Brasenose College

Africa-Oxford Fellow (2023-2024) at the Refugee Study Centre, Oxford Department of International Development

Qualifications

PhD (ANU), LLB (Hons) (London), LLM (Osgoode), MPH (Nottingham), BA (UBC), BSc (Hons) (Ghana)

Academic Background

Currently, I am an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies at Athabasca University. I held academic positions at University of Alberta, Seattle University, University of Washington, Georgetown University, University of Cape Coast, University of London, the Australian National University, and University of British Columbia.

Undergraduate Teaching Areas

Jurisprudence, Indigenous Politics/Law, international law, (im)migration/refugee law, social justice and ethics, and women/gender and the law.

Graduate Teaching Areas

International law, international human rights, migration, ethnicity and social policy, comparative race law.

Research Interests

Indigeneity, critical studies, public health, the rule of law, displacement/migration, feminist jurisprudence, decoloniality, women/children (reproductive) rights

Main publications

Books

Patriarchy and Gender in Africa (Lanham: Lexington, 2021) Veronica Fynn Bruey (ed)
Deadly Voyages: Migrant Journeys Across the Globe (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020). Veronica Fynn Bruey and Steven Bender (eds)

Chapters

“Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls in African Conflicts” Veronica Fynn Bruey in Obert Mlambo and Ezra Chitando (eds.), Palgrave Handbook on Violence in Africa. Expected 2024 (Palgrave-Springer, 2024), pp745-777. 
“Sexual Harassment and the Law in Liberia” Veronica Fynn Bruey in Furaha-Joy Sekai Saungweme, Carol Chi Ngang, and Graham Towl (eds), Sexual Harassment and the Law in Africa: Country and Regional Perspectives (Routledge, 2024), pp163-180. 
 “The enduring Impact of Slavery: A Historical Perspective on South-South Migration” Veronica Fynn Bruey and Heaven Crawley in Heaven Crawley and Joseph Teye (eds.), Palgrave Handbook of South-South Migration and Inequality, (Palgrave-Springer, 2024), pp25-46. 
Veronica Fynn Bruey, “Reproductive Health Rights in Liberia: The Case of (Il)Legal Abortion” Veronica Fynn Bruey in Olanike S. Adelakun and Erebi Ndoni (eds), Reproductive Health Rights and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa (Routledge, 2023), pp127-157. 
 “Police Brutality Against Liberian Refugees in Ghana: Assessing the Role of the Commissionon Human Rights and Administrative Justice” Veronica Fynn Bruey, in Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom, Michael Addaney, and Lydia A.Nkansah (eds), Democracy, Law, and Development Under Ghana’s Fourth Republic: Realities, Challenges and Prospects (Palgrave Macmillan - Springer Nature, 2022),pp353-383.

Articles

“Rewriting Refugee Law: Centring Refugee Knowledges and Lived Experience”  Veronica Fynn Bruey, Jessica Hambly, Eve Lester, Kate Ogg, and Matthew Zagor in 00 Refugee Survey Quarterly, (2024) hadae004, 1-12.
“Development-induced displacement and homelessness in Seattle, Washington,” Veronica Fynn Bruey in (2019) 18 Artha: Journal of Social Sciences 2, 1-25. 

Links

https://www.afox.ox.ac.uk/person/professor-veronica-fynn-bruey

https://www.athabascau.ca/humanities-and-social-sciences/our-people/veronica-fynn-bruey.html

Email address

Veronica.fynnbruey@ndm.ox.ac.uk