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Veronica Fynn Bruey

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Areas of Expertise, Education, Affiliations, Courses

Areas of Expertise

  • Comparative Constitutional/Public Law
  • Complex Legal Research Methods
  • Discrimination & Oppressive (Settler) Law
  • Feminist Jurisprudence & Gender Relations
  • Forced Displacement, Migration, & Development
  • Global/Public Health Law
  • Indigenous Law in Comparative Context
  • International Criminal Law
  • International Human Rights Law (in Africa)
  • Jurisprudence: The Philosophy of Law
  • Law, Social Justice, & Ethics
  • Maternal, Sexual, & Reproductive Health Law
  • Migrant Health Law
  • Public/Private International Law
  • Race, (Im)Migration & Displacement Law
  • Rewriting (Im)Migration Jurisprudence
  • (Transnational) Indigenous Law

Education

  • BSc (Honours), Zoology and Biochemistry, University of Ghana
  • BA, Child Developmental Psychology, University of British Columbia
  • MPH, Public Health, University of Nottingham
  • LLM, Refugee Law, York University
  • LLB (Honours), Public Law, University of London
  • PhD, Indigenous Law, Australian National University

Biography

With nearly three decades of research and teaching in some 30 countries, Dr. Veronica Fynn Bruey is a multi-award winner and independent academic-activist affiliated with Seattle University School of Law. A well sought after global speaker, Dr. Fynn Bruey holds six academic degrees: a PhD (ANU), an LLB (Honours) (London), LLM (Osgoode), MPH (Nottingham), BA (British Columbia), and BSc (Honours) (Ghana). She has authored five books, several book chapters, and journal articles published by Springer, Routledge, Refugee Survey Quarterly, Artha, and the Canadian Journal of African Studies. She has held academic positions at the University of Oxford, the University of Washington, University of Cape Coast, University of London, the Australian National University, Georgetown University, University of Witwatersrand, York University, and the University of British Columbia. Currently, Dr. Fynn Bruey is a co-founder/CEO of Tuki-Tumarankeh, a non-profit focused on global displacement; co-founder/Principal of VPFynn Consulting Firm; founder/editor-in-chief of the Journal of Internal Displacement; co-editor of Bloombury's Migration Displacement and Development Book Series; co-founder/lead of the Displaced Peoples' Network; founder/lead of Disrupting Patriarchy and Masculinity in Africa International Research Collaborative; and founding Director of Flower's University Global Health Sciences. She provides expert witness testimonies in courts on gender and race relations and is an expert panelist of the International Commission of Missing Children. She is the recipient many awards including the Law and Society's Stan Wheeler Mentorship Award (2025); the Canadian Association of African Studies' Pius Adesanmi Early Career Research Excellence Award (2024); and the Confederation of Alberta Faculty Association, Edmonton's Distinguished Academic Early Career Award (2023). She supervises and mentors hundreds of students around the globe. Dr. Fynn Bruey is an Indigenous Liberian war survivor and a global migrant.

Publications

Monograph

Veronica Fynn, Legal Discrepancies: Internal Displacement of Women and Children in Africa, (Kusterdingen: Flowers Books, 2011).

Edited Books

Veronica Fynn Bruey (ed), Patriarchy and Gender in Africa (Lanham: Lexington, 2021).

Veronica Fynn Bruey and Steven Bender (eds), Deadly Voyages: Migrant Journeys Across the Globe, (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020).

Veronica Fynn (ed), Documenting the Undocumented: Redefining Refugee Status (Boca Raton: Universal Publisher, 2010).

Children's Books

Veronica Fynn, Kebbeh Escapes Sande Bush for Child Abuse (Vancouver: EVRI Human Rights Series, 2012).

Veronica Fynn, Miatta & Kiazula Want to Have Education in Their Village (Victoria: First Choice Books, 2012).

Book Chapters

Christina Szurlej and Veronica Fynn Bruey, "Civil and Political Rights" in Christina Szurlej (ed.), Human Rights in Canada and Internationally, Emond Press, 2026.

Veronica Fynn Bruey and Robert Fantauzzi, “Canada’s legal and political framework for forced migration,” in Christina R. Clark-Kazak (ed.), Forced Migration in/to Canada: From Colonization to Refugee Resettlement (McGill-Queen Handbook, 2024), pp 117-127.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls in African Conflicts” in Obert Mlambo and Ezra Chitando (eds.), Palgrave Handbook on Violence in Africa. Expected 2024 (Palgrave-Springer, 2024), pp745-777.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “Sexual Harassment and the Law in Liberia” in Furaha-Joy Sekai Saungweme, Carol Chi Ngang, and Graham Towl (eds), Sexual Harassment and the Law in Africa: Country and Regional Perspectives (Routledge, 2024), pp163-180.

Veronica Fynn Bruey and Heaven Crawley, “The enduring Impact of Slavery: A Historical Perspective on South-South Migration” in Heaven Crawley and Joseph Teye (eds.), Palgrave Handbook of South-South Migration and Inequality, (Palgrave-Springer, 2024), pp25-46

Veronica Fynn Bruey, "Reproductive Health Rights in Liberia: The Case of (Il)Legal Abortion" in Olanike S. Adelakun and Erebi Ndoni (eds), Reproductive Health Rights, Tourism and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Africa (Routledge, 2022 expected). Production-stage.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “Police Brutality Against Liberian Refugees in Ghana: Assessing the Role of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice” in Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom, Michael Addaney, and Lydia A. Nkansah (eds), Democracy, Law, and Development Under Ghana’s Fourth Republic: Realities, Challenges and Prospects (Palgrave Macmillan - Springer Nature, 2022), pp353-383.

Heaven Crawley and Veronica Fynn Bruey, “‘Hanging in the Air’: The Experiences of Liberian Refugees in Ghana” in Joseph Teye (ed), Migration in West Africa: Changing Patterns and Development Impacts (IMISCOE Springer Migration Book Series, 2022), pp107-127.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “Human Trafficking and the Law in Canada” in Elisha J. Dung and Augustine Avwunudiogba (eds), Human Trafficking: Global History and Global Perspectives (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021), pp107-132.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “Forced Displacement and Racism: A Global Public Health Concern” in Norvy (ed.), Displacees and Health: Issues and Challenges (Chennai: Notion Press, 2021), pp 1-66.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “Misogyny, Xenophobia, and Masculinity in the Academy: An Epicenter of Violence, Abuse of Power, and Humiliation” in Veronica Fynn Bruey (ed.), Patriarchy and Gender in Africa (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021), pp 195-226.

Veronica Fynn Bruey “Deadly Voyage of African Migrants Crossing the Mediterranean: AU-EU Law and Policy Response” in Veronica Fynn Bruey and Steven Bender (eds), Deadly Voyages: Migrant Journeys Across the Globe, (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020).

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “The Liberian Public Health System” in George Klay Kieh Jr. (ed), Liberia in the Twenty-First Century: Perspectives and Issues, (Hauppauge: Nova Science Publishers, 2019), pp 207-248.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “Indigenous Women and International Law” in Susan Harris Rimmer and Kate Ogg (eds), Research Handbook on Feminist Engagement with International Law (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2019), 499-524.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “Maternal and Reproductive Rights - Ebola and the Law in Liberia” in David Schwartz, Julienne Anoko and Sharon Abramowitz (eds), Pregnant in the Time of Ebola: Women and Their Children in the 2013 West African Epidemic (Switzerland: Springer, 2019), pp 219-242.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “Redefining the Role of African Women in International and Regional Law: The Case of Pre- and Post-war Peacebuilding in Liberia” in Seema Shekhawat (ed), Gender, Conflict, Peace, and UNSC Resolution 1325 (Lanham: Lexington, 2018), pp 21-42.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “Africa Union Agenda 2063: Aspiring for Justice and the Rule of Law in Liberia” in Azubike C Onuora-Oguno, Wahab Egbewole, and Thomas Kleven (eds), Education Law, Strategic Policy, and Sustainable Development in Africa: Agenda 2063 (Cham: Springer-Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp 215-247.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “Deadly Voyage: African Migrants Crossing the Mediterranean” in Yabome Gilpin-Jackson, Judith Okonkwo and Sarah Owusu (eds), We Will Lead Africa (Vancouver: Gilpin-Jackson, Owusu & Okonkwo, 2017), 65-72.

Veronica Fynn, “Mother Passed It On” in Marguerite Andersen (ed), Feminisms Journeys/Voies Féministes (Toronto: Feminist History Society, 2010), pp 143-145.

Veronica Fynn, “Refugee Women and Children in Africa: A Critique of Regional and International Refugee/Human Rights Instruments” in Veronica Fynn (ed), Documenting the Undocumented: Redefining Refugee Status (Boca Raton: Universal Publisher, 2010), pp 151-188.

Foreword

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “Foreword”, in Alfred Babo and Sayed Hassan Akhlaq, Exiled Scholars in Western Academia: Refugees or Intellectuals?: Paradox of Integration and Exclusion (Cham: Palgrave-Springer, 2025), pp vii-x.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Veronica Fynn Bruey, and Colin Grey “Rewriting African Jurisprudence: Febles v Minister of Immigration Canada, 2014” (2024) 43 Refugee Survey Quarterly Special Issue 2, 144-168.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, Jessica Hambly, Eve Lester, Kate Ogg, and Matthew Zagor, “Rewriting Refugee Law: Centring Refugee Knowledges and Lived Experience” (2024) Refugee Survey Quarterly Special Issue, 115-126.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “Development-induced displacement and homelessness in Seattle, Washington,” (2019) 18 Artha: Journal of Social Sciences 2, 1-25.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “Fatal Journeys of Displaced African Migrants Crossing the Mediterranean: International and Regional Effort and Response” (2018) 8 Journal of Internal Displacement 1, 45-82

Veronica Fynn, “Forced Migration and Displacement During the Arab Spring” (2012) 2 Journal of Internal Displacement 2, 2-14.

Veronica Fynn, “Liberian Refugees: Access to Health & Education in Exile” (2011) 35 Liberian Studies Journal 1 and 2 (2010), 98-127.

Veronica Fynn, “Africa’s Last Colony: Sahrawi People – Refugees, IDPs and Nationals?” (2011) 1 Journal of Internal Displacement 2, 40-58.

Veronica Fynn, “Around the Fringes of Internal Displacement: Trending Mass Movements of Aboriginals in Canada” (2011) 1 Journal of Internal Displacement 1, 46-76.

Book Reviews

Veronica Fynn Bruey, Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects: The Divergent Legacies of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation in the Global South by Olukunle P. Owolabi, 1-2 Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne Des Études Africaines, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2025.2468029. 

Veronica Fynn Bruey, Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp: Gender, Violence, and Coping in Uganda by Ulrike Krause, 14 Journal of Internal Displacement 2, 2024 (January), 18-21.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, The Immigration Law Death Penalty: Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance by Sarah Tosh, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, April 2024.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, Algerian Women and Diasporic Experience: From the Black Decade to the Hirak by Latefa Narriman Guemar, 14 Journal of Internal Displacement 1, 2024 (January), 24-27.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago by Alison Mount, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, June 2022.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “Entangled Territorialities: Negotiating Indigenous Lands in Australia and Canada” by Francoise Dussart and Sylvie Poirier, 12 Journal of Internal Displacement 2, 2022 (January), 44-46.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “Migration by Boat: Discourses of Trauma, Exclusion, and Survival” by Lynda Mannik, 10 Journal of Internal Displacement 2, 2020 (July), 25-28.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “Compassionate Migration & Regional Policy in the Americas” by Steven W. Bender & William F. Arrocha, 9 Journal of Internal Displacement 1, 2019 (January), 74-77.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “The Myth of Self-Reliance: Economic Lives Inside a Liberian Refugee Camp” by Noahiko Omata, 9 Journal of Internal Displacement 1, 2019 (January), 78-80.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “Clinical Legal Education in Asia” by Shuvro Prosun Sarker. Unpublished.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “Indigenous Crimes and Settler Law: White Sovereignty After Empire” by Heather Douglas and Mark Finnane, (2017) 4 American Society for International Law’s Rights of Indigenous Peoples Interest Group Newsletter 1 (Summer), 10-11.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “Possible Spaces of Somali Belonging” by Vivian Gerrand, (2017) 7 Journal of Internal Displacement 1, 29-30.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “Unaccompanied Minors in International, European and National Law” by Ralf Rosskopf (ed), (2017) 7 Journal of Internal Displacement 1, 27-28.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “The Kampala Convention and its Contribution to International Law” by Mehari Taddele Maru, (2016) 6 Journal of Internal Displacement 1, 2-4.

Veronica Fynn, “Gender, Conflict and Peace by Kashmir: Invisible Stakeholders” by Seema Shekhawat, (2015) 5 Journal of Internal Displacement 2, 19-21.

Veronica Fynn, “Lat Does Not Exist: Oral Histories of Development-Induced Displacement in India” by Sam Tranum, Lois Kapila, Nikhil Roshan, (2014) 4 Journal of Internal Displacement 2, 81-82.

Veronica Fynn, “Refugee Repatriation: Justice, Responsibility and Redress” by Megan Bradley, (2014) 4 Journal of Internal Displacement 2, 79-80.

Veronica Fynn, “Transitional Justice and Displacement” by Roger Duthie, (2013) 3 Journal of Internal Displacement 1, 36-37.

Veronica Fynn, “No Return, No Refuge: Rites and Rights in Minority Repatriation” by Elazar Barkan and Howard Adelman, 2 (2012) Journal of Internal Displacement 1, 98-101.

Veronica Fynn, “Growing Up Naked: The Untold Stories of Children at War” by McAnthony Keah, (2010) 18 International Journal of Children’s Rights 1-3.

Veronica Fynn, “Africa: Mapping New Boundaries in International Law” by Jeremy I. Levitt (2008), 350 Pages, Hart Publishing, Oxford. Unpublished.

Reports

Fynn Bruey, Veronica; Matthews, Deanna; Maynard, Merryn; Sanders, Benjamin; Trinh, Anh-Khoi; and Verjee, Zainub; On the Edge of Affordability: Increasing Access to Affordable Housing for Low-to-Moderate Income Renters in Canada (Ottawa: Public Policy Forum/Action Canada, 2023).

Glenn Scott Davis, Chris Klaeysen, Kelly Richburg, David Kaz, Veronica Fynn, Linda Faaren, José Ramón Fernández-Peña, Rebecca Craig, Laura DiZazzo, Alexandra Olins, and Vy Nguyen, Breaking Barriers and Building Bridges: Career Pathways to Economic Stability and Quality Jobs for Seattle’s Immigrant and Refugee Workers and Professionals (Seattle: City of Seattle Office for Immigrant and Refugee Affairs, 2017).

Editorials 

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “Displacement of Indigenous Peoples Across International Borders: Unseen Struggles in Africa” (2025), 2 Journal of Internal Displacement 15, 3-17.

Veronica Fynn Bruey, Jasmin Lilian Diab, and Paul Norby, “Climate Change and Environmental Displacement: A Call for Comprehensive Action” (2025), 1 Journal of Internal Displacement 15, 2-9.

Veronica Fynn, “Letter from the Editor-in-Chief: Focus on Africa” (2011) 1 Journal of Internal Displacement 2, 3-4.

Veronica Fynn, “Letter from the Editor-in-Chief: Definitions, Scopes, Theories and Concepts of Internal Displacement” (2011) 1 Journal of Internal Displacement, Issue 1, 3-4.

Blog Posts/Articles 

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “Eleven Publications Over 12 Months in 2024 Alone!” (Veronica Fynn Bruey Official Blog, (2 March 2024) online: https://veronicafynn.blogspot.com/

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “Sexual Harassment and the Law in Liberia – Updates”, Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog, (13 November 2024) online: https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/sexual-harassment-and-the-law-in-liberia/

Fynn Bruey, Veronica, “Flipping the Narrative on Border Externalisation: An African Migrant Perspective”, Externalizing Asylum (Academic, 26 August 2024) online: https://externalizingasylum.info/flipping-the-narrative-on-border-externalisation-an-african-migrant-perspective/

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “A closer look at child trafficking in Africa: The case of Victoria Climbie”, The Association of Commonwealth Universities Global Challenges, (29 September 2020) online: https://www.acu.ac.uk/news/a-closer-look-at-child-trafficking-in-africa-the-case-of-victoria-climbie/

Veronica Fynn Bruey, “The myth of democracy: A series of the United States Role in Destabalising African countries”, Veronica Fynn Bruey Official Blog, (22 September 2019) online: https://veronicafynn.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-myth-of-democracy-series-on-united.html

Veronica Fynn, “Omar Khadr – The US and Canada’s Treatment of a Child Soldier Turned Adult Prisoner”, Regarding Rights, Centre for International Governance and Justice, (12 July 2013) online: https://www.freeomar.ca/2013/07/

Veronica Fynn, “African Women Resilience: Antidote for White Supremacy Complex in Development Delusions”, Delusions of Development, (9 April 2013) online: https://www.academia.edu/6912808/BLOG_POST_African_Women_Resilience_Antidote_for_White_Supremacy_Complex_in_Development_Delusions

Veronica Fynn, “The Deaths of Statesmen: The Case of Gaddafi and Doe”, Rights of Women in War, (18 November 2011) online: https://rightsofwomeninwar.blogspot.com/

Veronica Fynn, “Introduction of the Journal of Internal Displacement”, TerraONuillus, (30 July 2011) online: https://terra0nullius.wordpress.com/2011/07/30/introducing-the-journal-of-internal-displacement/