Directory of Scholars

LYNDA COLLINS

BA, LLB, LLM
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

email lcollins@uottawa.ca

Primary Research Interests

  • Constitutional law and the environment
  • Environmental ethics & justice
  • Human rights & the environment
  • International environmental law
  • Marine & fisheries law
  • Pollution & toxics control
  • Private law (nuisance, negligence etc)
  • Science & risk in environmental regulation

Secondary Research Interests

  • Indigenous peoples & the environment

Selected Publications

  • Lynda M. Collins, “Security of the person, peace of mind: a precautionary approach to environmental uncertainty” (2013) 4:1 Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 79-100.
  • Lynda M. Collins, “Causation, contribution and Clements : Revisiting the Material Contribution Test in Canadian Tort Law” (2011) 19 Tort Law Review 86
  • Lynda M. Collins & Heather McLeod-Kilmurray, “Material Contribution to Justice? Toxic Causation after Resurfice Corp v Hanke”. (2010) 48 Osgoode Hall LJ 411.
  • Lynda M. Collins, “Revisiting Canada’s Position on the Human Right to Water” (2010) 19 :3 RECIEL 351.
  • Lynda M. Collins & Meghan Murtha, “Indigenous Environmental Rights in Canada: the Right to Conservation Implicit in Treaty and Aboriginal Rights to Hunt, Fish and Trap” (2010) 47:4 Alberta Law Review
  • Lynda M. Collins, “An Ecologically Literate Reading of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms” (2009) 26 WJSLI 7-48.
  • Lynda M. Collins & Heather McLeod-Kilmurray, “Toxic Battery: A Tort for our Time?” (2008) 16 Tort Law Review 131-149.
  • Lynda M. Collins, “Protecting Aboriginal Environments: A Tort Law Approach” in S. Rogers et al., eds., Critical Torts (Toronto: Lexis, 2008) at 61-80.
  • Lynda M. Collins, “Revisiting the Doctrine of Intergenerational Equity in Global Environmental Governance” (2007) 30 Dal. L. J. 73 – 134.
  • Lynda M. Collins, “Environmental Rights for the Future? Intergenerational Equity in the EU” (2007) 16(3) RECIEL 321-331 (8.5 x 11 format).
  • Lynda M. Collins, “Tort, Democracy and Environmental Governance: Crown Liability for Environmental Non-Enforcement” (2007) Tort. L. Rev. 107-126.
  • Lynda M. Collins, “Are we There Yet? The Right to Environment in International and European Law” (2007) McGill Int’l J. Sustainable Development L. & Pol’y 119-153.