Priscylla Joca is an Assistant Professor at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University and a new Research Affiliate at the Centre for Constitutional Studies. Her research examines the coexistence of multiple legal and political orders within a shared space and how power and authority are distributed across them. Working at the intersection of constitutional, international and environmental law, she approaches Indigenous consultation and consent protocols and free, prior and informed consent as questions of constitutional pluralism. In doing so, she draws on international and Canada–Brazil comparative perspectives. Her recent research, funded by an SSHRC Explore grant, examines the multijurisdictional architecture of water governance in the Ontario Great Lakes region in dialogue with Anishinaabe water law (nibi inaakonigewin). She is currently developing new work on digital infrastructure and constitutional pluralism, using theories of democratic multiplicity to consider how environmental approvals for data centres allocate decision-making power over land, water and energy resources. She teaches Environmental Law, Indigenous and Aboriginal Law, and Legal Issues in Indigenous Economic Development. She completed an SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto and holds a doctorate in law (LL.D.) from the Université de Montréal and a master's degree in constitutional law (LL.M.) from the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil.
