Terry Skolnik
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111 East Taylor Street, Mail Code 9520 Phoenix, AZ 85004
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Terry Skolnik is a visiting scholar at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University (ASU). Previously, he was a research professor in the law school, and was the executive director of ASU's Academy for Justice. He is also an associate professor (tenured) at the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law in Canada.
His primary research interests are criminal law and procedure, policing, property law, legal philosophy, poverty law, and law and behavioral economics.
Previously, he co-directed the uOttawa Public Law Centre between 2022-2024. He also co-directed the Faculty's Mental Health and Well-Being Committee, and was a member of the University of Ottawa's Mental Health and Wellness Advisory Committee. He was a visiting research fellow at Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Law (2021) and was an affiliated scholar at NYU's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (2018-2019). In 2020-2021, he was awarded the distinguished teaching prize at the uOttawa Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section.
Terry Skolnik served as a law clerk for the Honourable Justice Russell Brown at the Supreme Court of Canada. Prior to academia, he worked as a police officer with the Montreal Police Service.
Outside of academia, he trains as an endurance athlete (bike, run, swim).
S.J.D. University of Toronto
L.L.M. University of Cambridge
L.L.L. University of Ottawa
Books (4)
1. Rethinking Violent Crime and the Law (under contract) (co-edited with Jesenia Pizarro & Henry F. Fradella) (Cambridge University Press, 2026).
2. Socio-Economic Criminal Justice (under contract) (Cambridge University Press, 2026).
3. Homelessness, Liberty, and Property (Cambridge University Press, 2024).
4. Ancillary Police Powers in Canada: A Critical Reassessment (with Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, John Burchill, and Richard Jochelson) (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2024).
Law review articles (40)
1. Big Data Decarceration, 100 S. Cal. L. Rev. (2026) [Forthcoming]
2. Policing's Privacy Shift, 52 BYU L. Rev. (2026) [Forthcoming]
3. The New Watchlists, 76 Case W. Res. L. Rev. (2026) [Forthcoming].
4. Encampments and Property Law, 101 Indiana L.J. (2026) [Forthcoming].
5. The Dark Patterns of Criminal Justice, 86 Ohio St. L.J. (2026) [Forthcoming].
6. Two Cultures of Justification in Constitutional Law, 22 Int. J. Con Law (I-CON) (2026) (Peer reviewed) [Forthcoming].
7. Short and Reform, 59 U. Mich. J. L. Reform (2026) [Forthcoming]
8. The Choice Architecture of Criminal Justice, 77 Alabama L. Rev. 337 (2026).
9. Criminal Justice and the Erosion of Constitutional Rights, 66 Boston College L. Rev. 1679 (2025)
10. The Tragedy of the Criminal Justice Commons, 58 UC Davis L. Rev. 2476 (2025).
11. The Law of Racial Profiling, 62 Osgoode Hall L.J. 365 (2025) (Peer reviewed) (with Jeanne Mayrand-Thibert and Fernando Belton).
12. Racial Profiling and the Rule of Law: A Reply, 62 Osgoode Hall L.J. 431 (2025) (with Jeanne Mayrand-Thibert and Fernando Belton).
13. Artificially Intelligent Post-Conviction Review, 38 Fed. Sent. Rpt. 51 (2025) [Invited contribution]
14. Three Stages of Criminal Justice Remedies, 57 UBC L. Rev. 565 (2024) (Peer reviewed).
15. The Regulatory Offence Revolution in Criminal Justice, Part 1: Policing and the Expanding Role of Regulatory Offences, 61 Alta. L. Rev. 777 (2024) (Peer reviewed)
16. The Regulatory Offence Revolution in Criminal Justice, Part 2: The Choice Architecture of Regulatory Offences, 62 Alta. L. Rev. 39 (2024) (Peer reviewed).
17. Cruel and Unusual Punishments as Legislative Gross Negligence, Criminal L. & Phil. (2024) (Peer reviewed).
18. Expanding Equality, 47 Dalhousie L.J. 195 (2023) (Peer reviewed).
19. Policing, Technology, and the Erosion of Constitutional Rights, 49 Queen’s L.J. 40 (2023) (Peer reviewed)
20. Luamba et la fin des interceptions au hasard, 101 Revue du Barreau Canadien 671 (2023) (Peer reviewed)
21. Policing in the Shadow of Legality: Pretext, Leveraging, and Investigation Cascades, 60 Osgoode Hall L.J. 505 (2023) (Peer reviewed)
22. Two Criminal Justice Systems, 56 UBC L. Rev. 286 (2023) (Peer reviewed)
23. Homeless Encampments: A Philosophical Justification, 36 J. Law & Social Policy 97 (022) (Peer reviewed)
24. Use of Force and Criminalization, 85 Albany L. Rev. 663 (2022)
25. Rééquilibrer le rôle de la Cour suprême du Canada en procédure criminelle, 67 R.D. McGill 259 (2022) (Peer reviewed).
26. Criminal Justice Reform: A Transformative Agenda, 59 Alberta L. Rev. 631 (2022) (Peer reviewed).
27. Precedent, Principles, and Presumptions, 54 UBC L. Rev. 935 (2021) (Peer reviewed).
28. Racial Profiling and the Perils of Ancillary Powers, 99 Canadian Bar Rev. 429 (2021) (Peer reviewed).
29. Policing Arbitrariness: Fleming v. Ontario and the Ancillary Powers Doctrine, 100 Supreme Ct. L. Rev. 187 (2021) (with Vanessa MacDonnell) (Peer reviewed).
30. Criminal Law During (and After) COVID-19, 43 Manitoba L.J. 145 (2020) (Peer reviewed).
31. Causation, Fault, and Fairness in the Criminal Law, 65 McGill L.J. 1 (2020) (Peer reviewed).
32. Hot Bench: A Theory of Appellate Adjudication, 61 Boston College L. Rev. 1271 (2020).
33. Homelessness and Unconstitutional Discrimination, 15 Law & Equality 69 (2019) (Peer reviewed).
34. Rethinking Homeless People’s Punishments, 22 New Crim. L. Rev. 73 (2019) (Peer reviewed).
36. How and Why Homeless People Are Regulated Differently, 42 Queen’s L.J. 297 (2018) (Peer reviewed).
36. Freedom and Access to Housing: Three Conceptions, 35 WYAJ 226 (2018) (Peer reviewed).
37. Objective Mens Rea Revisited, 22 Can. Crim. L. Rev. 315 (2017) (Peer edited).
38. Homelessness and the Impossibility to Obey the Law, 43 Fordham Urb. L.J. 741 (2016).
39. The Suspicious Distinction Between Reasonable Suspicion and Reasonable Grounds to Believe, 47 Ottawa L. Rev. 223 (2016) (Peer reviewed).
40. Three Problems with Duress and Moral Involuntariness, 63 Crim L.Q. 124 (2016) (Peer edited).
Book chapters (5)
1. Liberty, Equality, and Violent Crime, in Rethinking Violent Crime and the Law (Skolnik, Pizarro & Fradella eds., Cambridge University Press, 2026) (forthcoming).
2. Homelessness, Poverty, and the Limits of Preventive Exclusion, in Preventing Crime by Exclusion (Ryberg & Søbirk eds., Routledge, 2024) (Peer edited).
3. Bijuralism and Bilingualism in Supreme Court of Canada Decisions: A Quantitative Analysis, in Decoding the Court: Legal Data Insights from the Supreme Court of Canada (Alschner, Mathen, & MacDonnell eds., Routledge, 2024) (Peer edited).
4. Socially Deprived Offenders in The Oxford Handbook of Punishment Theory and Philosophy (Ryberg ed., Oxford University Press, 2024) (Peer edited).
5. The Punitive Impact of Physical Distancing Laws on Homeless People in The Law, Policy, and Ethics of COVID-19 (Flood et al. eds., University of Ottawa Press, 2020) (Peer reviewed).