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Author Bio

As a professor in the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa (Canada), Margarida Garcia’s scholarship explores the themes of leadership, human rights, and innovation in law reform, and specializes in epistemological and methodological reflection concerning empirical research in law. She served as Vice-Dean of Research in the Faculty of law (Civil Section) (2017 to 2021), co-founded the Leadership Academy at the University of Ottawa, and is currently serving as its co-director. Today, Professor Garcia is committed to developing an approach to leadership that is deeply rooted in the humanities, making the classroom an experiential and transformational laboratory. Professor Garcia’s research results have been disseminated through publications in Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Belgium, Italy, and France.

Keywords

Ontological inquiry, legal education, phenomenology, out-of-frame sentencing

Abstract

This article explores how we assess the value of ontological inquiry in the world of law, and to that end, it seeks to bring forth “seeings” that show up when we open the “curtains” of law, and engage the world of law as a field of subjective experience. By revisiting subjective impressions left from participation in the world of law, and that, for the most part, have remained unexamined, the author imagines what an “ontologically sensitive” approach to legal education, practice, and scholarship might look like and be if more space was given to those who participate in those activities to experience, express, communicate, and be used by their own existential subjective experiences.

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