Dr. Bita Amani serves as a Professor of Law at Queen’s University and affiliated faculty in the Cultural Studies Graduate Program. She co-directs Feminist Legal Studies Queen’s. She earned a Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in Sociology from York University, a Bachelor of Laws from Osgoode Hall Law School, and a Doctor of Juridical Science from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, supported by SSHRC and Centre for Innovation Law and Policy doctoral fellowships.
Professor Amani instructs courses on intellectual property, information privacy, and feminist legal studies (workshop). Her ongoing research addresses food law and governance, intellectual property, algorithmic errors, and privacy law. She advised the provincial government on gene patenting as a member of the Subcommittee to the Ontario Advisory Committee on Predictive Genetic Technology (2001). From 2000 to 2002, she acted as editor and annotations editor for the e-Laws project under Ontario’s Ministry of the Attorney General and Office of the Legislative Counsel. In 2005, she co-investigated the policy effects on women and children from broadening recognition of foreign polygamous marriages in Canada, funded by Status of Women Canada and the Department of Justice. Her study, “Consuming ‘DNA as Chemicals’ and Chemicals as Food: A Fresh Policy Perspective for Women’s Health,” received funding from the National Network on Environments and Women’s Health via Health Canada’s Bureau of Women’s Health and Gender Analysis. She has consulted for and briefly drafted legislation for Ontario’s Ministry of the Attorney General, Office of the Legislative Counsel (37th Legislative Session, 2001). She periodically teaches as an Adjunct Professor in Osgoode Hall Law School’s Part-Time Professional Development Program (LLM) and has been called to the Ontario Bar since 2000.
