Melanie Murchison

Melanie Janelle Murchison is an Instructor II in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Manitoba.

Dr. Murchison earned her Ph.D. in Law from Queen’s University Belfast in and previously attended Carleton University and the University of Winnipeg. 

Her most recent academic work has been with Dean Richard Jochelson (Law) on legal pedagogy in the pandemic. Their article “Remote Learning in Law School During the Pandemic – a Canadian Survey” is in the Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law and there are two more conference proceedings forthcoming on data obtained from the same survey.  Her research interests include jury behaviour, legal pedagogy, judicial activism, violence against women and comparative constitutional law.