Caylee Hong
Contact
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law - Admin
- cjhong@ualberta.ca
Overview
About
Caylee Hong is an anthropologist and assistant professor in the Faculty of Law. Her teaching interests and research focus on infrastructure, energy, cities, and the environment. Her research has been published in Antipode, Anthropological Theory, Environmental History (forthcoming), the Journal of Law and Equality, and elsewhere.
Professor Hong completed her PhD in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, where she researched the long-term impacts of urban oil operations in the Los Angeles Basin, including on decommissioning, redevelopment and ecological restoration. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and UC Berkeley’s Canadian Studies Program, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues and the Center for the Study of Law and Society. She holds a BA from University College Utrecht, LLM from the University of London SOAS and LLB and BCL from McGill University.
Prior to joining the U of A, Professor Hong clerked at the Federal Court of Canada and worked as a project finance attorney at Milbank LLP in New York City.
Research
Research and publications include:
"Transparency in Subterranean Los Angeles." Environmental History (forthcoming).
"Safe Cities in Pakistan: Knowledge Infrastructures and the Security State." (2022) Antipode 54, no. 5 (Special Issue on Infrastructure and Pakistan).
"Citizen as Mere Human: Litigating Denationalization in Post-9/11 UK." Anthropological Theory 21, no. 2 (2020).
“Visualize-ing Air: Data, Icons, and Translations of Smog in Lahore.” Cultural Anthropology Field Sites (2020).
Courses
LAW 440A - Property Law
This course involves the study of basic principles which govern the institution of real and personal property. Included in this analysis will be the history of property law and issues of social and political context. Other topics include right incident to the ownership and possession of land, tenures and estates, concurrent ownership, dower, leases and tenancies, easements, restrictive covenants, finders law, bailment, and gifts. Other special issues may be explored.
LAW 440B - Property Law
This course involves the study of basic principles which govern the institution of real and personal property. Included in this analysis will be the history of property law and issues of social and political context. Other topics include right incident to the ownership and possession of land, tenures and estates, concurrent ownership, dower, leases and tenancies, easements, restrictive covenants, finders law, bailment, and gifts. Other special issues may be explored.
LAW 455 - Legal Seminar
Legal Seminars present diverse perspectives on the law and legal systems, including topics such as jurisprudence, legal history, legal theory, justice and human rights, within one or more legal traditions. Evaluation will be based primarily on written work. Students may take multiple sections of the course with the approval of the Vice Dean.
LAW 696 - Graduate Seminar - Practice and Theory in Legal Scholarship
This is an academic methods and theory seminar for graduate students. Students will have an opportunity to think critically about developing projects based on sound research methodologies and theoretical frameworks in order to pursue original legal scholarship at an advanced level. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.