Natasha Bakht

Natasha BAKHT is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, where she teaches criminal law and procedure, family law, and multicultural rights in liberal democracies. Professor Bakht served as a law clerk to Justice Louise Arbour at the Supreme Court of Canada, and he research interests include law, culture and minority rights, and specifically the intersection of religious freedom and women’s equality. She has written extensively on the issue of religious arbitration in family law, and Professor Bakht is a regular researcher with the National Judicial Institute, where she has assisted in judicial education on sentencing, demeanor evidence, and matters of faith and culture. She is a member of the Law Program Committee of the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund, and is the editor of Belonging and Banishment: Being Muslim in Canada. Professor Bakht received her LL.M. degree from New York University School of Law as a Global Hauser Scholar.