Research interests
- Business and Human Rights
- Economic Sanctions
- Corporate Accountability
- Trade Negotiations
Bahar Jafarian works at the intersection of business and human rights and the international legal regulation of economic sanctions. She holds an LLM from Dalhousie University and is currently affiliated with the Common Law Section of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, where her doctoral research explores the implications of transnational corporate activity for international human rights law, with a focus on the impact of unilateral sanctions.
She has conducted research as a guest scholar at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law through a competitive scholarship, and she is a past scholarship recipient of the Hague Academy of International Law. She is currently pursuing advanced training in international arbitration at the Arbitration Academy in Paris.
In addition to her academic research, Bahar is a policy analyst with the Government of Canada, where she supports trade and environment negotiations, including the development of environmental provisions in Canada鈥檚 free trade agreements. She will soon begin a legal role with the Department of Justice Canada. Beyond her professional work, Bahar is deeply committed to equity and access to justice.