Publications

Scholarship:

Reakash Walters, “The Criminalization of Black Friendship, Kinship and Belonging” (2025) 48:2 Dal LJ (forthcoming).

Reakash Walters, review of Canadian Criminal Law in Ten Cases, by Martin L. Friedland, Can Hist Rev (forthcoming).

Reakash Walters & Alicia Virani, “A Transformative Path Forward for Restorative Justice” in Jennifer Llewellyn & Ivo Aertsen, eds, International Encyclopedia of Restorative Justice (The Hague: Eleven International Publishing, forthcoming).

Reakash Walters, “Abolitionist Lawyers: Making Prisons Obsolete” in Kyle Kirkup & Anne Levesque et al., eds, Critical Conversations in Canadian Public Law (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, forthcoming).

Nana Yanful & Reakash Walters, Grasping at the Root: A look at Restorative and Transformative Justice for Black People in Canada (2025) online: CABL https://cabl.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CABL-Report-Grasping-At-The-Root.pdf.

Reakash Walters, “Against Amnesia: African Nova Scotia Women’s Generational Leadership in Civil Rights Organizing, 1950–79” (2020) 32:2 CJWL at 383.


Public Writing:

Reakash Walters, “A Thoughtful Exposé of the Power of Community Organizing”, Coöperism 13/13 (21 December 2023).

Reakash Walters & Joshua Sealy-Harrington, “Was justice served in the Ahmaud Arbery case? Not even close”, The Globe and Mail (30 November 2021).

Reakash Walters, Anthony N Morgan, & Joshua Sealy-Harrington, “Canada’s courts need a system update to deal with internet-connected juries”, The Globe and Mail (30 November 2020).

Reakash Walters & Rachel Zellars, “We don’t need the police. We need each other” in Sophia Reuss & Christina Turner, eds, Everything on the Line (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2021) 169.

Reakash Walters & Christophe Lewis, “Justice for Racialized Prisoners” Broadbent Institute (6 March 2019).

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