Monday, July 11, 2022

Daniel Del Gobbo (SJD 2021) will join the Faculty of Law at Windsor University in 2023. Del Gobbo is currently a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University's Faculty of Law.

Del Gobbo's research falls at the intersections of civil procedure, human rights and equality, access to justice, and critical theory. He is interested in exploring how legal institutions can be redesigned to promote more fair, equal, and accessible outcomes for women, LGBTQ2 peoples, and other historically marginalized groups. His SJD thesis title is "Negotiating Feminism: Campus Sexual Violence and the Politics of Settlement", which will be published as a book (expected in 2022 or 2023) Negotiating Feminism by University of Toronto Press.

Building on his interests in civil procedure and gender justice, Del Gobbo's current research as a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the McGill Law explores the potential of restorative justice and transformative justice to address systemic human rights abuses and promote reconciliation with LGBTQ2 peoples. The focus of his research is the Canadian “Gay Purge”: the historical sanctioning and discharging of gender and sexual minorities from the military and federal public service between 1955 and 1992. The Gay Purge is the subject of a class action and settlement agreement in the Federal Court of Canada that resulted from a process which purported to embody the values of restorative justice. Del Gobbo's research investigates the extent to which the legal mechanisms employed in the case – praiseworthy as they may be – reflect a gap between restorative justice and the requirements for social change.