Dr. Ravi Malhotra joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa in 2006. He obtained an LL.M. from Harvard in 2002, and completed his S.J.D. at the University of Toronto in 2007, having been awarded a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship. His doctoral dissertation dealt with the implications of globalization for labour law in the context of workers with disabilities. While he was an S.J.D. candidate in residency at the University of Toronto, Professor Malhotra was an adjunct faculty member at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law where he taught International Human Rights.  His primary research interests are in the areas of Labour and Employment Law, Human Rights, Globalization and Disability Rights Law.

Before resuming his legal studies, Professor Malhotra articled in Ottawa at Caroline Engelmann Gottheil, now the Ottawa office of Sack Goldblatt Mitchell, a firm specializing in labour and employment law and human rights. He was also a researcher for the disability rights organization, Reach, and contributed to their reports on barriers faced by law students with disabilities. He was Called to the Bar of Ontario in 2001. He has published widely in a number of journals including the Journal of Law & Equality, the Harvard International Law Journal, New Politics and in the Washington University Journal of Law & Policy and has articles forthcoming in the Ottawa Law Review and the Alberta Law Review. He also contributed a book chapter on John Rawls and disability rights for the recent anthology, Critical Disability Theory: Essays in Philosophy, Politics, Policy and Law (University of British Columbia Press), edited by Richard Devlin and Dianne Pothier and another book chapter on Martha Nussbaum and the Granovsky case for the forthcoming anthology, The  Canadian Charter of Rights at Twenty Five (Toronto:  LexisNexis Butterworths, 2008),  edited by Joseph Magnet.

Professor Malhotra is a member of the Human Rights Committee of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities.

E-mail: rmalhotr@uottawa.ca