Dr. Katie Pentney is a Visiting Assistant Professor (Schulich Fellow) at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. Her research interests lie in comparative constitutional and international human rights law, with a particular focus on the capacity of traditional rights frameworks to respond to contemporary challenges — among them, the spread of disinformation, declining public trust in institutions and overlapping democratic, environmental and public health crises. Her doctoral work examined government speech generally, and government falsehoods specifically, as concerns of and for freedom of expression guarantees under the Canadian Charter, the US Bill of Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights. Her current research moves from the impact of government speech on individual rights to governments’ broader role in Canadian constitutional governance, including as epistemic participants. She holds a DPhil (PhD) in Law from the University of Oxford, an Advanced LLM in European and International Human Rights Law (summa cum laude) from Leiden University, and a JD from Osgoode Hall Law School. She has litigated before all levels of court in Canada and has worked on cases at the international level, including before the UK Supreme Court and the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights.
