Jeffery Hewitt joined the faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School in 2019. After graduating from Osgoode in 1996, Professor Hewitt returned to complete his LLM in 2015/16. Professor Hewitt’s research interests include Indigenous legal orders and governance, constitutional law, human rights, legal education, business law, as well as art + law and visual legal studies. Professor Hewitt has taught constitutional law and is a co-director of Osgoode’s Intensive Program in Indigenous Lands, Resources, and Governments. He was called to the Bar in Ontario in 1998 and is mixed-descent Cree.
He has recently edited a collection of works with Richard Moon and Beverley Jacobs on religious freedom and Indigenous spirituality (University of Toronto Press), with a 2024 anticipated publication date.
Graduate Research Supervision (LLM, PhD): Professor Hewitt likes to take an interdisciplinary approach with graduate students and is interested in supervising those who are engaging with or wish to engage with any of his research areas of interest.