Dr. Emily Lockhart

Assistant Professor

Office: BAC 303
Phone: 902-585-1479
Email: emily.lockhart@acadiau.ca

Summer Office Hours: Contact via email

Education

PhD (York University)
MA (University of New Brunswick)
BA (University of New Brunswick)

Research/Teaching Interests

  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Sexual Citizenship
  • Critical Youth Studies
  • Feminist and Critical Legal Theory
  • Social Justice
  • Digital Technology and Communication Studies
  • Sociology of Law
  • Critical Criminology

Teaching (2025-2026)

  • LAWS 1003: Introduction to Law and Society
  • LAWS 2003: Theories of Law and Society
  • LAWS 3013: Justice in the Spotlight: Law, Society, and High-Profile Trials
  • LAWS 4003: Issues in Law and Society

 

Selected Publications

Articles
Alexa Dodge and Emily Lockhart. 2022. “‘Young People Just Resolve It in Their Own Group’: Young People’s Perspectives on Responses to Non-Consensual Intimate Image Distribution.” Youth Justice 22, no. 3: 304–319.

Katrin Roots and Emily Lockhart. 2021. “To Protect and Responsibilize: The Discursive Explosion of Combining Youth Sexuality, Human Trafficking, and Online Spaces.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 33, no. 1: 58–83.

Annie Bunting, Heather Tasker, and Emily Lockhart. 2021. “Women’s Lawmaking and Contestations of ‘Marriage’ in African Conflict Situations.” Law & Society Review 55: 614–633.

Book Chapters
Emily Lockhart. Forthcoming. “Reporting Non-Consensual Intimate Image Distribution: Girls’ Legal Consciousness and Hesitancy to Invoke Criminal Law.” In Youth Girls' Positionalities at the Intersection of Identity and Violence, edited by C. Chapdelaine-Feliciati. Cham: Springer.

Emily Lockhart. Forthcoming. “Chapter 8: Sexuality and Society.” In Sociology, 11th ed., edited by Carlo Colavecchia and Vic Satzewich. Toronto: Pearson.

Emily Lockhart, Katrin Roots, and Heather Tasker. 2023. “Law, Gendered Violence, and Justice: Critically Engaging #MeToo.” In Violence, Imagination, and Resistance: Socio-Legal Interrogations of Power, edited by Mariful Alam, Patrick Dwyer, and Katrin Roots. Athabasca, AB: Athabasca University Press.