Research

Joan Braun’s research has a socio-legal focus and examines how laws and policies operate in society.

Her research explores the impact of these laws through a social justice lens and falls within two broader areas of inquiry – alternate dispute resolution and elder law. She is one of Canada’s leading elder law scholars. She recently was a member of a research team on a SSHRC funded project on mental capacity, which she co-led.   

Joan is a professor at Bora Laskin Faculty of Law,  and is a research affiliate at the Centre for Education and Research on Aging and Health at Lakehead University, and at the University of BC’s Centre for Research on Personhood in Dementia. She also is a member of the Applied Legal Studies Research Group at the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University.

Joan is currently working on two research projects that examine legal response to elder abuse. One project examines civil law responses and the other criminal law responses.

Information about Joan’s research can be found at:

• ResearchGate
• SSRN
• Orcid