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Dr. Dayna Nadine Scott , Dayna Nadine Scott is currently a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow at the McGill University Faculty of Law where she is teaching International Environmental Law. She studied environmental science before completing the joint MES/LL.B. degree program at Osgoode Hall Law School and York University’s Faculty of Environmental Studies (Toronto) in 2001. Her Master's thesis entitled "Carbon Sinks Science and the Kyoto Protocol: Controversy as Opportunity for Paradigmatic Policy Shifts" won the York University Thesis Prize. After completing a judicial clerkship at the Federal Court of Canada and being called to the Bar of Ontario, Dayna returned to Osgoode Hall Law School to pursue her Ph.D. Dayna spent 2004-2005 as a Fulbright Scholar and a visiting doctoral researcher in the Hauser Global Law School program at NYU School of Law in New York. She defended her dissertation, The Mutual Constitution of Risk and Precaution: A Study of the Precautionary Principle in Action, in 2005. Her research interests include: environmental law and policy; critical risk theory; environmental justice; law and science; biotechnology policy; toxic torts; and trade and globalization. Recent publications of note include a domestic case study of the application of the precautionary principle in a public health setting (“When Precaution Points Two Ways: Confronting “West Nile Fever”” (2005) 20(4) Canadian Journal of Law and Society (forthcoming)); an critical examination of Canada’s regulatory regime for genetically modified foods or “novel foods” through the lens of the sociology of risk literature (“Risk as a Technique of Governance in an Era of Biotechnological Innovation”, invited for the Law Commission of Canada volume, Risk & Trust edited by Aaron Doyle, forthcoming from Fernwood Press, 2006); a book review of Sheila Jasanoff & Marybeth Long Martello (eds.) Earthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental Governance, MIT Press, 2004, (“Law as Local Knowledge” (2005) 1 McGill International Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy 81); and a discursive analysis of the current trade dispute over GMOs at the WTO (Nature/Culture Clash: The Transnational Trade in GMOs, expected in the Jean Monnet Working Paper Series 2005 edited by J.H.H. Weiler, New York University School of Law).
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