Nice to Meet you!
My name is e/Artemis Campbell (they/them). I am a white settler of Scottish, Norse, English, French, and German ancestry. I am a lawyer, researcher, artist, and videographer. I am an uninvited guest on unceded MÁLEXEȽ and Quw’utsun territories. I grew up on the shores of Zhooniya Zaagiigan (Lake Simcoe) and Chi’Nibiish (Lake Ontario) in Michi Saagiig territory, and so-called Mission Creek in syilx territory. My positionally as a settler/uninvited guest, queer, non binary, neurodivergent (autism spectrum, generalized anxiety, and mixed personality disorder with features of borderline personality disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder) person who experiences chronic pain informs a considerable amount of my work.
Legal Work
I am Grateful to work at the Indigenous Law Research Unit as a lawyer/legal researcher at the University of Victoria.
Art Studio
I have my own art studio in which I focus, primarily, on legal design work, bridging the gaps between art and law. In the past, I have done various projects for Water Sustainability Collective (based at UVic), Quw'utsun Cultural Connections, the Indigenous Law Research Unit (based at UVic), NIȽ TU,O Child and Family Services Society, Radical Action for Migrants in Agriculture, and Justice and Corporate Accountability Project. I continue to take on legal design projects, including graphic recording, basic videography and animation projects, graphic design, and others. If you'd like to work with me, let me know! Schedule allowing, I am also happy to offer no or low cost training to neurodivergent, disabled, BIPOC, 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals, especially youth, on what I do and how I do it. Please note that I do not give legal advice in this work.
Scholarly Work
I have a Bachelor of English (graduation with honours, focusing on documentaries and activism), Master's in Interdisciplinary Studies, and a law degree (J.D.) with a Concentration in Environmental Law and Sustainability. My SSHRC-funded thesis highlighted colonialism and racism in the enforcement of international animal and conservation law by nonprofits. My thesis included reflections on activism in both Costa Rica and the Faroe Islands, where I also worked as a field producer on a number of video projects, including an award-winning documentary on sea turtles. It also included reflections on my practicum at the BC SPCA.
I have presented at the North American Critical Animal Studies (2022, 2019), National Animal Law (2019 and 2020), Sustainable Livelihoods & Climate Change Regulation (Hanoi, Vietnam - 2019), and Building Abolition (2019) conferences.
Past & Present Volunteer Work
Videographer/Graphic Recorder who assists at numerous events in Quw'utsun territory (if you see someone with a confused gender identity holding an iPad or a video camera around Duncan, it's probably me).
Volunteer for the Cowichan Watershed Board
Cowichan Stewardship Roundtable Volunteer
Member of the North American Association for Critical Animal Studies
Peer-Reviewer for the Animal Studies Journal
Mentor in the UBC Disability Alliance Mentorship Program
Legal Researcher for the University of Cambridge Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship
Editor for the ILA Committee on the Role of International Law in Sustainable Natural Resources Management for Development
Social Media Assistance with Living with the Land Society
Researcher for Pacific Centre for Environmental Law and Litigation (on the La Rose climate litigation)
Event Videographer for Our Children's Trust
Legal Researcher and Field Hand at Rescue and Sanctuary for Threatened Animals and Warren Peace Bunny Sanctuary (completed 24 hours of research about Gilbert the fawn) https://www.google.ca/amp/s/beta.ctvnews.ca/local/british-columbia/2019/7/19/1_4516307.html
Legal Researcher and Videographer for RAMA Okanagan
Volunteer Receptionist at the YMCA
Recreation Volunteer at Three Links Manor (Senior's Home)
Languages Spoken
I speak English, intermediate French, and Level 3 ASL.
