Karinne Lantz
Assistant Professor of Law
Email: karinne.lantz@dal.ca
Phone: 902-431-0639
Mailing Address:
6061 University Avenue
PO Box 15000
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2
- Public international law
- International human rights law
- The right to health
- The reception of international law in Canada
- Use of force and international humanitarian law/the law of armed conflict
- International criminal law
- State immunity and jurisdiction
Education
- BA (Saint Mary鈥檚)
- BSc (Saint Mary鈥檚)
- JD (Ottawa)
- MA (Carleton)
- LLM (Cambridge)
Bar admissions
- Ontario, 2010
- Saskatchewan, 2015
- Nova Scotia, 2024
Teaching
- Tort Law & Damage Compensation (LAWS 1116 & 1126)
- Family Law I (LAWS 2110)
- Law in Its National & International Context: International and Transnational Law Module (LAWS 1122)
- International Human Rights Law (LAWS 2074)
Bio
Before studying law, Professor Lantz completed her undergraduate studies at Saint Mary鈥檚 University in Halifax, where a BA in Political Science and International Development Studies helped to spark an interest in international affairs, global governance, and the promise for international law to be a tool for helping to solve global problems.
Professor Lantz received a JD and an MA in international affairs through a joint program with the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, where her research examined the application of international human rights law and international humanitarian law to cross-border armed conflicts involving non-state actors. She then completed an LLM in international law at the University of Cambridge, with her thesis exploring the prosecution of international crimes under the universality principle and the challenge that such prosecutions may pose to international relations.
After law school, Professor Lantz articled and practiced labour and employment law at Blake, Cassels, and Graydon LLP in Toronto and later worked as a labour relations officer with a faculty association in Saskatchewan. Prior to undertaking doctoral studies at Dalhousie, she was an assistant professor at the College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan, where she taught Tort Law, Legal Research and Writing, and International Law: Use of Force and the Law of Armed Conflict.聽
Research
Professor Lantz鈥� general research interest is public international law and, specifically, the role of non-state actors on transnational and international levels, and how international law can be used to address existing and emerging challenges.聽 Her doctoral research explores the domestic and international dimensions of the international human right to health, and how to implement and secure the right to health for vulnerable populations in Canada and abroad. 聽Her recent research has focused on the reception of international human rights law in Canada and Canada鈥檚 international human rights obligations related to the recruitment of health professionals from abroad to work in Canada.