Staff Profiles
Sarah Morales
Research Officer: Land, Law and Governance (part-time)
Sarah Morales is Coast Salish and a member of Cowichan Tribes. She completed her LL.B. from the University of Victoria in 2004 and her LL.M. from the University of Arizona in 2006. As the Department of Justice Congressional Fellow at the University of Arizona, Sarah clerked for the Pasqua Yaqui Tribal Appellate Court and worked on a petition to the Organization of American States. Her research interests include indigenous legal traditions, international human rights law and water law. She has worked for numerous First Nation organizations in British Columbia throughout her studies, including the Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group, the National Centre for First Nations Governance and Cowichan Tribes. Sarah is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria. Her research focuses on Coast Salish legal traditions and the development of a process to reconcile conflicts between these and outside legal traditions.
Sarah is a part-time Research Officer with Land, Law and Governance Research Directorate.
