Cherie Metcalf

Cherie Metcalf is an Associate Professor at Queen’s University in the Faculty of Law and cross-appointed in the Department of Economics. She completed her Ph.D. in Economics before turning to legal studies. After her LLB at Queen's, she clerked at the Federal Court of Appeal and for former Justice Ian Binnie at the Supreme Court of Canada, then did her LLM at Yale on a Fulbright scholarship. 

Professor Metcalf's research area is Law & Economics. She has used economic theory and empirical methods to study Indigenous rights, including the Supreme Court’s s. 35 Aboriginal rights cases. Another research strand relates to the relationship between law and norms and the application of insights from behavioural economics to study legal institutions. She generally studies issues in environmental and resource law and her most recent work is on climate change. Together with her co-author, Ian Keay, she was twice awarded the Vanderkamp prize for best paper in Canadian Public Policy. She has recently received grants from the Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Canadian Foundation for Legal Research. She has been an invited visiting scholar at the University of Colorado (Faculty of Law & Institute of Behavioral Sciences Institutions Program), and Vancouver School of Economics at UBC.