Priscylla Joca
Priscylla Joca is an assistant professor at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law. Prior to joining the Faculty, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law. She holds a Doctor in Law (LL.D.) from the Universit茅 de Montreal. Her research was supported by a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Her dissertation focused on free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC) and self-determination, analyzing the legal-political potentialities and challenges of applying protocols developed by Indigenous peoples and traditional communities to guide consultation and consent processes.
Her research navigates the intersections among multiple legal traditions and legal orders鈥攊ncluding Indigenous, international human rights, and state laws鈥攚ith particular attention to comparative legal studies between Canada and Brazil. Her research also explores how Indigenous peoples and traditional local communities articulate their own laws and rights, challenging conventional state-centred legal frameworks and advancing decolonial approaches to environmental and ecological justice. She is particularly interested in self-determination, territorial rights, and the free, prior, and informed consent of these peoples and communities, adopting an interdisciplinary and critical approach that encompasses both social and environmental sciences to provide a comprehensive perspective on these crucial matters.
As a non-Indigenous researcher, Joca believes that her role as a legal researcher involves building collaborations and partnerships with Indigenous peoples and traditional communities who are leading struggles for self-determination and who are key actors in the development of laws, legal strategies and policies to address social, environmental, and ecological justice and climate change.
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Papers in Refereed Journals:
Martins, M.P.M.J, N贸brega, L., Pereira, L. J. (2024). Embates jur铆dico-pol铆ticos em torno do direito 脿 consulta e ao consentimento: os Juruna/Yudj谩 e os megaempreendimentos no Rio Xingu [].
Montambeault, F., da Silva, L.A.L., Joca, P.M. (2019). CPLE et protocoles de consultation autochtones au Br茅sil : trajectoires compar茅es [].
Book (authored):
P. Joca, B. Garz贸n, L. Silva, R. Oliveira, L. Grupioni (2021). Protocolos Aut么nomos de Consulta e Consentimento: Um olhar sobre o Brasil, Belize, Canad谩 e Col么mbia []. RCA.
Chapters in Books:
Martins, M.P.M.J, N贸brega, L., Pereira, L. J. (2024). Consuming Land. In M. J. Hird (ed.), . Routledge.
Joca, P. (2020). Protocolos Ind铆genas de Consulta e Consentimento no Brasil [Indigenous Consultation and Consent Protocols in Brazil]. In S. M. Hern谩ndez (ed.), Protocolos Auton贸micos de Consulta Previa Ind铆genas en Am茅rica Latina: Estudios de casos en Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Honduras, M茅xico y Per煤 (pp. 68-105). IWGIA.
Special Issues (edited):
Avoine, P., Coenga, D., Yira, M., Joca, P. et. al. (eds.), (2023). Consentimiento []. Revista L眉vo, 10 (2).
Technical Reports:
Joca, P. (2024). Human Rights Violations and the Struggle for Access to Justice in the Indigenous Territory of Vale do Javari, Brazil: The Case of the Mats茅s Indigenous People. General Organization of the Mats茅s Indigenous People.
Garz贸n, B. R; Joca, P. (2020). Emergence and Legal Foundation of Autonomous Consultation Protocols. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
Joca, P. (2019). Technical Report on The Politics of Free, Prior and Informed Consent in Oil, Gas, and Mining Projects in Brazil. Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (Columbia University).
Other Publications:
Joca, P. (2023). Revista L眉vo, 10(2), pp. 5-15.
Tupari, L, Saban锚, F., Joca, P. (2022). . Revista L眉vo, 9(1), pp. 41-49.
Joca, P. (2021). As Vozes da Terra: Reflex玫es entre hist贸rias, registros fotogr谩ficos e ensaios. [].
Joca, P., Mantovanelli, T., Reis, C.P. (2020). Nouvelles offensives contre l鈥橝mazonie br茅silienne []. Relations (810), pp. 27-28.
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships (2023-2024)
Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) (2017-2020)
Mitacs-Globalink (2020)
Bourse J. A. DeS猫ve (Universit茅 de Montr茅al) Excellence Scholarship (2020)
Bourse Juliette-Barcelo (Universit茅 de Montr茅al) Excellence Scholarship (2019)
Doctor in Law (LL.D.)
Universit茅 de Montreal (UdeM)
2023
LL.M. in Constitutional Law
Federal University of Ceara, Brazil
2011
Bachelor of Laws
Federal University of Ceara, Brazil
2003
鈥淚 look forward to being part of the Lincoln Alexander School of Law, where interdisciplinarity and community engagement are fundamental values among brilliant and creative faculty partners and bright students; it will be an honour to join the Lincoln Alexander School of Law and participate in its excellence in research and teaching.鈥�