Faculty of Law

Dr. Richard Jochelson

Biography

Richard Jochelson is the Dean of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba. He holds a Ph.D. in Law from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, a Master of Laws from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Calgary Faculty of Law (Gold Medal), and a Bachelor of Science in Zoology (with Distinction), also from the University of Calgary.  He served his articling year as a clerk at the Alberta Court of Appeal and Court of Queen’s Bench, before working at one of Canada’s largest law firms. He taught criminal law for 10 years at the University of Winnipeg prior to joining the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Law.

Teaching Profile

Since 2006, Dr. Jochelson has developed an accomplished teaching record at the post-secondary level, first at the University of Winnipeg and since July 1, 2016, at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Law. During  his time at Robson Hall, he has developed a student-centered pedagogy which is responsive to student needs, and which permits the course to be formatted to students’ talents. While the academic rigour of the course is maintained, with the curriculum being curated by Dr. Jochelson, the delivery of the course and evaluation is flexible and sensitive to student learning preferences. Students are encouraged to choose their means of evaluations within the parameters of Faculty guidelines, which might include seminar presentations, failsafe exams, papers, short papers, a final exam or any combination of these. Dr. Jochelson is committed to the principles of universal design, access for all, and innovative pedagogical design. The students are also surveyed as to their preference for use of technology in the classroom and the form of instruction is tailored to student desires in this context as well. Dr. Jochelson has achieved excellent teaching evaluations and earned a Student Teacher Recognition (CATL) (2018) for excellence in student support. Beyond innovative classroom practice, Dr. Jochelson has demonstrated his interest and leadership in teaching by conducting research in pedagogy, having written peer reviewed works on professional orientations/practice in critical disciplines, on socio-legal approaches to teaching in law, on the use of trigger warnings in law school and on the use of technology in law school classrooms. His approach to teaching is to lead through collaboration with the students while maintaining an intellectual and analytical interest in teaching, technology, curriculum and the needs of professional legal practice.

Research Profile

As a researcher, Dr. Jochelson has disseminated over 70 publications. His sole-authored, published peer reviewed law journal articles, mainly deal with police powers and jurisprudential approaches to police powers and to the socio-legal placement of the laws of obscenity and indecency. He has also published more than 15 co-authored books and edited work demonstrating a commitment to advancing his collaborative approach to scholarship. Through such collaboration and team building, mainly in the disciplines of sociology and psychology he has been able to add interdisciplinary rigour to his research, developing deeper theoretical, empirical and experimental lenses to some of his studies.

The path of academic research he has followed speaks to his commitment to social justice and equality in Canada. This research program could be summarized as an interest in the administration of justice including jurisprudential approaches to police powers and deployment of state power; an interest in the tools and means in which the judiciary deploys power, including language, and with particular focus on the relationship between judges and jurors during the charge to the jury; an interest in the study of overinclusion or exclusion of vulnerable persons in the justice system and justice making, respectively, with an interest in disability and race in both cases; an interest in the ways the state regulates sexual freedom and deviance, the ways courts speak about sexual issues, the role judges play in discourses of sexual oppression and the role of difficult sexual speech and conduct in our understandings of justice in Canada; the role that concepts such as risk, precaution, visibility, threat, and similar concepts play in empowering state action or instantiating legal wrongdoing by courts; and the study of how to teach law in a manner that is doctrinally sound, but remaining open to the application of critical lenses.

Dr. Jochelson is the recipient as both Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-investigator (CI), of Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grants in teams of four to six people. His research accomplishments display a talent for proliferation, Supreme Court and Appellate Court citation, organization, funding success, teamwork and mentorship of students and junior academics. He has developed a formula for success in working with others to achieve research output, and in leading research teams including his assembly of nearly 40 cross-Canada interdisciplinary scholars to help the research network that has become Robsoncrim.com (a leading research blog). Together, this collective of legal scholars has helped make the Criminal Law Edition of the Manitoba Law Journal one of Canada’s preeminent criminal law journals.

Research Areas

  • Charter Issues in Criminal Law
  • Criminal Law and Procedure
  • Sexual Expression, Conduct and Work in Canada

 

Selected Publications

Comprehensive Academic Publications

* indicates SSHRC-funded work; + denotes student author.

Refereed Books and Edited Collections

  • *Rainbow Captives: Toward a Queer Carceral Studies, edited by James Gacek and Richard Jochelson, Law and Society series, UBC Press, 300 pp. Hardcover ISBN 9780774873529. Forthcoming October 1, 2026.
  • Law and Disability in Canada: Cases and Materials. Volume 2 (Jacobs, Dhand, Ireland, Jochelson et al.), LexisNexis, 2026. Co-author of multiple chapters and several new ones (see details in chapters list below).
  • Criminal Law and the Canadian Criminal Code - 2026 Release by Richard Jochelson, Amar Khoday, Marc Kruse, Brandon Trask, Adriel Weaver and Maya Yuel, McGraw Hill Canada. Print ISBN: 9781266277283. Published: 2026.
  • Reimer, L. E., & Jochelson, R. (Eds.). (2025). The Other Side of the Bar: Conflict Transformation in Legal Practice. Palgrave Macmillan Singapore. doi:10.1007/978-981-96-9748-9.
  • *Ancillary Police Powers in Canada - A Critical Reassessment (John W. Burchill, Richard Jochelson, Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, and Terry Skolnik), UBC Press, 2024. ISBN 9780774871051.
  • *Justice in the Age of Agnosis: Socio-Legal Explorations of Denial, Deception, and Doubt (Eds. James Gacek & Richard Jochelson), Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies, 2024. ISBN 9783031543531. Co-editor and contributor.
  • Green Criminology and the Law (Eds. James Gacek & Richard Jochelson), Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology series, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2022.
  • Law and Disability in Canada: Cases and Materials. Volume 1 (Jacobs, Ireland, Jochelson et al.), LexisNexis, 2021. Co-author of multiple chapters.
  • Sexual Regulation and the Law: A Canadian Perspective (Eds. Jochelson & Gacek), Demeter Press, 2019/20. Co-editor and contributor.
  • Privacy in Peril: Hunter v Southam and the Drift from Reasonable Search Protections (Jochelson & Ireland), UBC Press, 2019.
  • Criminal Law and Precrime: Legal Studies in Punishment and Surveillance in Anticipation of Criminal Guilt (Jochelson, Gacek, Menzie, Kramar & Doerksen), Routledge, 2018.
  • Jochelson, R., Walby, K., Bertrand, M., & Kohm, S. (Eds.). (2016). Visualizing Justice: Critical Perspectives on Visibility, Law, and Order. Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research, Volume 5.
  • The Disappearance of Criminal Law: Police Powers and the Supreme Court (Richard Jochelson & Kirsten Kramar, with Mark Doerksen), Fernwood Books, 2015. Equally co-authored with Kirsten Kramar.
  • Thinking About Justice: A Book of Readings (Gorkoff & Jochelson), Fernwood Books, 2011.
  • Sex and the Supreme Court: Obscenity and Indecency Law in Canada (Jochelson & Kramar), Fernwood Books, 2011.

Refereed Journal Articles

  • Gacek, J., Jochelson, R., Trask, B., Corcoran, L.+, & Ranieri, M.+ (2026). Care Complexities: Progressing Prison Palliative Care and Compassionate Release in Canada. Manitoba Law Journal, 49(4), pre-print/in press.
  • Gacek, J., Jochelson, R., Asfari, A., Corcoran, L.+, & Ranieri, M.+ (2025). Youth and Young Terror: Canadian Case Law and the Socio-Carceral Dynamics of Youth and Young Offenders Convicted of Terrorism Offences. Crime & Delinquency, 71(3), 740-768. doi:10.1177/00111287241258735.
  • *Gacek, J., Jochelson, R., Trask, B., Corcoran, L.+, & Ranieri, M.+ (2025). Morbid Matters: Medical Assistance in Dying in Federal Corrections. Manitoba Law Journal: Robson Crim, 47(4), 143-180. doi:10.29173/mlj1397.
  • Jochelson, R., Trask, B., Bertrand, M. I., Ireland, D., & Nair, K. (2024). Virtually Similar? Considering the Potential for Virtual Jury Trials in Canada During and After the Pandemic. Manitoba Law Journal, 46(3), 41-70. doi:10.29173/mlj1458.
  • Murchison, M., Jochelson, R., Ireland, D., Ciyilepe, T., & Koulack, S. (2022). Remote Learning in Law School During the Pandemic: A Canadian Survey. Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law, 8(1).
  • Gacek, J., Jochelson, R., & Dueck-Read, A. (2022). Critiquing the Conception of "Crimes Against Nature": The Necessity for a New "Natural" Law. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 66(4), 345-368. doi:10.1177/0306624X20967945. Online first October 30, 2020.
  • Bertrand, M., Ireland, D., & Jochelson, R. (2021). Jury Selection Is Not Random Selection: A Methodological Critique of R. v. Kokopenace and a Recommended Solution. Criminal Law Quarterly, 69 C.L.Q. 464.
  • *Jochelson, R., Ireland, D., & Taylor, H.+ (2021). Clearing Your History: A Review of Non-Consensual Distribution of Intimate Images in Canada and Future Responses. UBC Law Review, 54(3), 763-805.
  • Bertrand, M., Jochelson, R., & Ireland, D. (2021). Dispensing Digital Justice: COVID-19, Courts, and the Potentially Diminishing Role of Jury Trials. Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research, Volume 10.
  • Jochelson, R., Gacek, J., & Ireland, D. (2021). Reconsidering Legal Pedagogy: Assessing Trigger Warnings, Evaluative Instruments, and Articling Integration in Canada's Modern Law School Curricula. Manitoba Law Journal, 44(2), 87-120. doi:10.29173/mlj1264.
  • Jochelson et al. (2020). Generation and Deployment of Common Law Police Powers by Canadian Courts and the Double-Edged Charter. Critical Criminology, 28(1), 107-126.
  • Bertrand, Jochelson et al. (2020). "We have centuries of work undone by a few bone-heads" - A Review of Jury History and a Present Snapshot of Crown and Defence Counsel Perspectives on Bill C-75's Elimination of Peremptory Challenges and Representativeness Issues. Manitoba Law Journal, 43.
  • *Jochelson, R., Bertrand, M., Ireland, D., Desroches, A., & Kerr-Donahue, M.+ (2020). Propensities for Guilt and the Canadian Criminal Jury: Jury-Eligible Participant Studies Across Three Charging Scenarios and Three Fact Patterns. Criminal Law Quarterly, 68.
  • Gacek, J., & Jochelson, R. (2020). Animals as Something More Than Mere Property: Interweaving Green Criminology and Law. Social Sciences, 9(7), article 122. doi:10.3390/socsci9070122.
  • Jochelson, R., Laidlaw, & Bertrand, M. (2020). Prairie Vice: Reflecting on Robson's Report of the Royal Commission on Charges Re Vice and of Graft Against the Police - A Winnipeg Study. Manitoba Law Journal, 42(2).
  • Jochelson, R., & Gacek, J. (2019). Reconstitutions of Harm: Novel Applications of the Labaye Test Since 2005. Alberta Law Review, 56(4).
  • Johnson, Jochelson, & Weir. (2019). Exclusion of Evidence Under Section 24(2) of the Charter Post-Grant in the Years 2014-2017: A Comprehensive Analysis of 600 Cases. Criminal Law Quarterly, 67.
  • Jochelson, R., & Ireland, D. (2018). Law Student Responses to Innovation: A Study of Law Student Perspectives in Respect of Digital Knowledge Transmission, Flipped Classrooms, Video Capsules and Other Means of Classroom Dissemination. Underneath the Golden Boy, 41(1).
  • Jochelson, R., & Bertrand, M. (2018). Mock-jurors' Self-Reported Understanding of Canadian Judicial Instructions (is not very good). Criminal Law Quarterly, 66(1-2).
  • Jochelson, R., & Gacek, J. (2018). Ruff Justice: Canine Cases and Judicial Law Making as an Instrument of Change to Animal Law. Animal Law Review, 24(1).
  • Gacek, J., & Jochelson, R. (2017). "Animal Justice" and Sexual (Ab)use: Consideration of Legal Recognition of Sentience for Animals in Canada. Manitoba Law Journal, 40(3), 335-362.
  • Gacek, J., & Jochelson, R. (2017). Placing "Bestial" Acts in Canada: Legal Meanings of "Bestiality" and Judicial Engagements with Sociality. Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research, 6, 236-261.
  • Jochelson, R., Bertrand, M., & Menzie, L. (2017). The Jury Representativeness Guarantee in Canada: The Curious Case of Disability and Justice Making. Journal of Ethics in Mental Health, 9.
  • Jochelson, R., & Murchison, M. (2016). Measuring Activism and Restraint or How to Conflate Doctrine with Activism - A Response to Professor Riddell's Small Scale Judicial Output Study. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 58(1), 112.
  • Jochelson, R., Huang, & Murchison, M. (2015). An Empirical Analysis of 5 Years After Grant. Criminal Law Quarterly, 63.
  • Jochelson, R., & Murchison, M. (2015). An Empirical Comparison of the Exclusion of Evidence Pre/Post 9/11: A Model of Judicial Discourse. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 57(1), 115.
  • Jochelson, R. (2014). Let Law Be Law, and Let Us Critique: Teaching Law to Undergraduate Students of Criminal Justice. Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research, Volume 4.
  • Jochelson, R., Bertrand, M. I., Lindsay, R. C. L., Smith, A. M., Ventola, M., & Kalmet, N. (2014). Revisiting Representativeness in the Manitoban Criminal Jury. Manitoba Law Journal, 37(2), 365-398. doi:10.29173/mlj894.
  • Jochelson, R., & Kramar, K. (2014). Situating Exclusion of Evidence Analysis in Its Socio-Legal Place: A Tale of Judicial Populism. Crime, Law and Social Change, 61(5), 541.
  • Jochelson, R., Kohm, S. A., & Weinrath, M. (2013). Mitigating the Protective-Services Orientation in Criminal Justice: An Opening Salvo at the University of Winnipeg. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 55(1), 1-32.
  • Jochelson, R., & Kramar, K. (2013). Essentialism Makes for Strange Bedmates: The Supreme Court Case of J.A. and the Intervention of LEAF. Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, 30(1), 77.
  • Jochelson, R. (2013). Ancillary Issues with Oakes: The Development of the Waterfield Test and the Problem of Fundamental Constitutional Theory. Ottawa Law Review, 43(3), 355.
  • Jochelson, R., Weinrath, M., & Murchison, M. J. (2012). Searching and Seizing After 9/11: Developing and Applying Empirical Methodology to Measure Judicial Output in the Supreme Court's Section 8 Jurisprudence. Dalhousie Law Journal, 35(1), 179-215.
  • Kramar, K., & Jochelson, R. (2011). Governing Through Harm to Promote Liberal Values: The Canadian Approach to Obscenity and Indecency Following R. v. Labaye. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 36(4). doi:10.29173/cjs9373.
  • Jochelson, R., Weinrath, M., & Murchison, M. J. (2011). Multidimensional Analysis of Judicial Decision-Making: Reframing Judicial Activism as the Study of Judicial Discourse (or Taking the Judgment out of the Judgment). Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research, Volume 2.
  • Jochelson, R., & Kramar, K. (2010). Practicing Justice by Practicing Method: A Brief Rethinking of Feminist Analytics of Obscenity and Indecency Law in Canada. Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research, Volume 1, 26.
  • Jochelson, R. (2009). Multidimensional Analysis as a Window into Activism Scholarship: Searching for Meaning with Sniffer Dogs. Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 24(2), 231.
  • Jochelson, R. (2009). Trashcans and Constitutional Custodians: The Liminal Spaces of Privacy in the Wake of Patrick. Saskatchewan Law Review, 72, 165-188.
  • Jochelson, R. (2009). After Labaye: The Harm Test of Obscenity, the New Judicial Vacuum and the Relevance of Familiar Voices. Alberta Law Review, 46(3), 1-26.
  • Jochelson, R. (2009). R. v. Labaye: The Fogginess of "Increased" Causality in Obscenity Law. Alberta Law Review Supplement, February Edition, 1-10.
  • Jochelson, R. (2008). Crossing the Rubicon - of Sniffer Dogs, Justifications and Preemptive Deference. Review of Constitutional Studies, 13(2), 67-98.

Refereed Book Chapters and Other Refereed Contributions

  • Arrest, Detention and Disability in Canada by David Ireland, Richard Jochelson, Brayden McDonald and Brandon Trask, Chapter 11 in Law and Disability in Canada: Cases and Materials, 2nd ed. (Laverne Jacobs, General Editor), LexisNexis Canada, 2026. ISBN: 9780433542018.
  • Trial, Sentencing and Disability in Canada by David Ireland, Richard Jochelson, Brayden McDonald and Brandon Trask, Chapter 12 in Law and Disability in Canada: Cases and Materials, 2nd ed. (Laverne Jacobs, General Editor), LexisNexis Canada, 2026. ISBN: 9780433542018.
  • Disability and Jury Representation by Danielle Hermann, Richard Jochelson, Michelle I. Bertrand and Brandon Trask, Chapter 13 in Law and Disability in Canada: Cases and Materials, 2nd ed. (Laverne Jacobs, General Editor), LexisNexis Canada, 2026. ISBN: 9780433542018.
  • Inquests, Disability and Marginalization in Encounters with the Criminal Justice System by David Ireland, Richard Jochelson, Brayden McDonald and Brandon Trask, Chapter 14 in Law and Disability in Canada: Cases and Materials, 2nd ed. (Laverne Jacobs, General Editor), LexisNexis Canada, 2026. ISBN: 9780433542018.
  • Non-Criminal Inquests by David Ireland, Richard Jochelson, Brayden McDonald and Brandon Trask, Chapter 15 in Law and Disability in Canada: Cases and Materials, 2nd ed. (Laverne Jacobs, General Editor), LexisNexis Canada, 2026. ISBN: 9780433542018.
  • Jochelson, R., & Reimer, L. E. (2025). Introduction: Transforming Legal Practice. In L. E. Reimer & R. Jochelson (Eds.), The Other Side of the Bar: Conflict Transformation in Legal Practice, pp. 1-10. Palgrave Macmillan Singapore. doi:10.1007/978-981-96-9748-9_1.
  • Reimer, L. E., & Jochelson, R. (2025). Conclusion: Cultivating Conflict Transformation in Legal Practice. In L. E. Reimer & R. Jochelson (Eds.), The Other Side of the Bar: Conflict Transformation in Legal Practice, pp. 295-298. Palgrave Macmillan Singapore. doi:10.1007/978-981-96-9748-9_13.
  • Gone, but Not Forgotten: The Agnotological Necropolitics of Inquest Fatality Reports by James Gacek, David Ireland and Richard Jochelson, pp. 113-145 in Justice in the Age of Agnosis: Socio-Legal Explorations of Denial, Deception, and Doubt, Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies (Gacek and Jochelson, Eds.), 2024. ISBN 978-3-031-54353-1. Published 19 May 2024.
  • Gacek, J., & Jochelson, R. (2024). Doctoring, Distorting, Denying, Doubting: Ignorance Production in the Age of Agnosis. In J. Gacek & R. Jochelson (Eds.), Justice in the Age of Agnosis: Socio-Legal Explorations of Denial, Deception, and Doubt, pp. 3-16. Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-54354-8_1.
  • Gacek, J., & Jochelson, R. (2022). It Isn't Easy Being Green: The Triumphs and Trials of the Green Criminology-Law Nexus. In J. Gacek & R. Jochelson (Eds.), Green Criminology and the Law, pp. 1-16. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-82412-9_1.
  • Reasonable Expectations of Privacy and Digital Developments: Police Searches, Charter Values and New Constitutions of Crime (Jochelson & Ireland), in The Last Frontier: Digital Privacy and the Charter, Hunt and Diab (Eds.) (Toronto: Thomson Reuters, 2022).
  • Jochelson, R., Ireland, D., Laidlaw, L., & Tourtchaninova, A. (2020). Instructor-Student Sexual Misconduct: The Fraught Silences of Liminal Policy Spaces at Canadian Universities. In D. Crocker, J. Minaker, & A. Nelund (Eds.), Violence Interrupted: Confronting Sexual Violence on University Campuses, pp. 301-326. McGill-Queen's University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctv176ktr9.19.
  • Ireland, D., & Jochelson, R. (2020). Continuing the Conversation: Exploring Current Themes in Criminal Justice and the Law. Manitoba Law Journal, 43(3), Introduction, i. doi:10.29173/mlj1199. Also appearing as the introduction to 43(4) and 43(5).
  • Let's Talk About Sex - Time to Tap Taboo, in Sexual Regulation and the Law: A Canadian Perspective (Demeter Press, 2019/20) (co-authored with James Gacek).
  • Indecency and Obscenity Law: From Hicklin to the Post-Labaye Era - A (Tall) Tale of Risk, in Sexual Regulation and the Law: A Canadian Perspective (Demeter Press, 2019/20) (co-authored with James Gacek).
  • Sex Work in Canada: Beginnings, Bedford and Beyond, in Sexual Regulation and the Law: A Canadian Perspective (Demeter Press, 2019/20) (co-authored with James Gacek).
  • Intimate Images and the Law, in Sexual Regulation and the Law: A Canadian Perspective (Demeter Press, 2019/20) (co-authored with Gacek et al.).
  • Rethinking Bestial Regulation, in Sexual Regulation and the Law: A Canadian Perspective (Demeter Press, 2019/20) (co-authored with Gacek et al.).
  • Reflections on Making the "Strange" Familiar and Future Directions, in Sexual Regulation and the Law: A Canadian Perspective (Demeter Press, 2019/20) (co-authored with James Gacek).
  • Case by Case Privilege: A Canadian Overview (Ireland, Jochelson & Stoez), in Perspectives on Evidentiary Privilege, Prof. Chris Hunt, 2019, Thomson Reuters.
  • Students Fostering Legal Literacy: A Professor's Perspective about the Canadian Journal of Law and Justice (Jochelson), Canadian Journal of Law and Justice, 1(1), 2019.
  • Ireland, D., & Jochelson, R. (2019). Towards Dialogue in the Crim Disciplines. Manitoba Law Journal, 42(3), Preface, i; also appearing in 42(4), Preface, i.
  • Robson Crim: A Vision for Multivalent Interrogations of Criminal Law (Jochelson, Ireland & Khoday), Manitoba Law Journal, 40(3), 2017.
  • The Supreme Court of Canada Presents: The Surveillant Charter, in National Security, Surveillance, and Emergencies: Canadian and Australian Sovereignty Compared (Lippert et al., Eds.), Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 (Jochelson with second author Mark Doerksen).
  • Book Review of Policing in Israel: Studying Crime Control, Community Policing and Counterterrorism (Jochelson), Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, 18(1), 2017.
  • Justice Making: Scrutinizing Canada's Jury Representativeness Guarantees while Ameliorating Stewart and Russell's Conceptions of "Social Wreckage", in Canadians with Disabilities in Disability Politics in a Global Economy: Essays in Honour of Marta Russell (R. Malhotra, Ed.), Routledge, 2017, p. 42 (Jochelson & Bertrand).
  • A History of Settlement Ten Years Later - Revisiting Cronenberg's A History of Violence, in Screening Justice, Fernwood Books, 2017 (Jochelson).
  • After Bedford: Recent Developments in Sex and the Law, in Sociology in Our Times, Seventh Canadian Edition (Lothian-Murray et al.), Nelson Education, 2016 (Jochelson).
  • Walby, K., Jochelson, R., Bertrand, M., & Kohm, S. (2016). Introduction: Visualizing Justice. Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research, Volume 5, 5-14.
  • Kohm, S., Gorkoff, K., Jochelson, R., & Walby, K. (2014). Educating Justice: Postsecondary Education in the Justice Disciplines. Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research, Volume 4.
  • An Addendum on Bedford: Sex and the Supreme Court - Obscenity and Indecency Law in Canada, in Sex and the Supreme Court, Fernwood Books, 2014. ISBN 9781552664155 (Jochelson).
  • Recent Developments in Sex and the Law: Recent Developments: Feminist Law Reform and Sexual Assault, in Sociology in Our Times, Sixth Canadian Edition (Lothian-Murray et al.), Nelson Education, 2014. ISBN-10 0176648747; ISBN-13 9780176648749 (Jochelson).
  • Adopting the Governmentality Approach Obscenity and Indecency: Tracking Harm Through Discourse of the Supreme Court of Canada, in Locating Law: Race/Class/Gender/Sexuality Connections, 3rd ed. (Elizabeth Comack, 2014), Fernwood Books (Jochelson & Kramar).
  • Talking Trash with the Supreme Court of Canada: The Reasonable Expectation of Privacy under the Charter, in Criminology: Critical Canadian Perspectives (Kirsten Kramar, Ed.), Pearson Canada, 2010 (Jochelson).

Edited Law Journals (edited book equivalent)

2026 - Volume 49 - currently pre-print/in press

  • Robson Crim - Volume 49, Issue 4, Richard Jochelson, Faculty Editor-in-Chief, Manitoba Law Journal, 49(4) (2026), pre-print/in press. Refereed Criminal Law Edition (Robson Crim).
  • Robson Crim - Volume 49, Issue 5, Richard Jochelson, Faculty Editor-in-Chief, Manitoba Law Journal, 49(5) (2026), pre-print/in press. Refereed Criminal Law Edition (Robson Crim).

2025 - Volume 48 - currently identified as pre-print/in press

  • Robson Crim - Volume 48, Issue 4, Richard Jochelson, Faculty Editor-in-Chief, Manitoba Law Journal, 48(4) (2025), pre-print/in press. Refereed Criminal Law Edition (Robson Crim).
  • Robson Crim - Volume 48, Issue 5, Richard Jochelson, Faculty Editor-in-Chief, Manitoba Law Journal, 48(5) (2025), pre-print/in press. Refereed Criminal Law Edition (Robson Crim).
  • Robson Crim - Volume 48, Issue 6, Richard Jochelson, Faculty Editor-in-Chief, Manitoba Law Journal, 48(6) (2025), pre-print/in press. Refereed Criminal Law Edition (Robson Crim).

2025 - Volume 47

  • Robson Crim - Volume 47, Issue 4, Richard Jochelson, Faculty Editor-in-Chief, Manitoba Law Journal, 47(4) (2025). Refereed Criminal Law Edition (Robson Crim).
  • Robson Crim - Volume 47, Issue 5, Richard Jochelson, Faculty Editor-in-Chief, Manitoba Law Journal, 47(5) (2025). Refereed Criminal Law Edition (Robson Crim).
  • Robson Crim - Volume 47, Issue 6, Richard Jochelson, Faculty Editor-in-Chief, Manitoba Law Journal, 47(6) (2025). Refereed Criminal Law Edition (Robson Crim).

2023/24 - Volume 46

  • Criminal Law Edition of the Manitoba Law Journal - Volume 46, Issue 4, Richard Jochelson, Brandon Trask, Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich and James Gacek, Editors. Manitoba Law Journal, 46(4) (2023). Refereed Robson Crim/Criminal Law Edition.
  • Criminal Law Edition of the Manitoba Law Journal - Volume 46, Issue 5, Richard Jochelson, Brandon Trask, Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich and James Gacek, Editors. Manitoba Law Journal, 46(5) (2023). Refereed Robson Crim/Criminal Law Edition.
  • Criminal Law Edition of the Manitoba Law Journal - Volume 46, Issue 6, Richard Jochelson, Brandon Trask, Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich and James Gacek, Editors. Manitoba Law Journal, 46(6) (2023). Refereed Robson Crim/Criminal Law Edition.

2022 - Volume 45

  • Criminal Law Edition of the Manitoba Law Journal - Volume 45, Issue 4, Richard Jochelson, Brandon Trask, Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich and James Gacek, Editors. Manitoba Law Journal, 45(4) (2022). Refereed Robson Crim/Criminal Law Edition.
  • Criminal Law Edition of the Manitoba Law Journal - Volume 45, Issue 5, Richard Jochelson, Brandon Trask, Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich and James Gacek, Editors. Manitoba Law Journal, 45(5) (2022). Refereed Robson Crim/Criminal Law Edition.
  • Criminal Law Edition of the Manitoba Law Journal - Volume 45, Issue 6, Richard Jochelson, Brandon Trask, Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich and James Gacek, Editors. Manitoba Law Journal, 45(6) (2022). Refereed Robson Crim/Criminal Law Edition.

2021 - Volume 44

  • Criminal Law Edition of the Manitoba Law Journal - Volume 44, Issue 3, Richard Jochelson, David Ireland, Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich and James Gacek, Editors. Manitoba Law Journal, 44(3) (2021).
  • Criminal Law Edition of the Manitoba Law Journal - Volume 44, Issue 4: Defences and the Criminal Law, Richard Jochelson, Faculty Editor-in-Chief, with David Ireland, Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich and James Gacek, Editors. Manitoba Law Journal, 44(4) (2021). Refereed Robson Crim/Criminal Law Edition.
  • Criminal Law Edition of the Manitoba Law Journal - Volume 44, Issue 5, Richard Jochelson, Faculty Editor-in-Chief, with David Ireland, Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich and James Gacek, Editors. Manitoba Law Journal, 44(5) (2021). Refereed Robson Crim/Criminal Law Edition.
  • Criminal Law Edition of the Manitoba Law Journal - Volume 44, Issue 6, Richard Jochelson, Faculty Editor-in-Chief. Manitoba Law Journal, 44(6) (2021). Refereed Robson Crim/Criminal Law Edition.

2020 - Volume 43

  • Criminal Law Edition of the Manitoba Law Journal - Volume 43, Issue 3: Criminal Justice and Evidentiary Thresholds in Canada: The Last Ten Years, Richard Jochelson, Faculty Editor-in-Chief, with David Ireland, Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich and James Gacek, Editors. Manitoba Law Journal, 43(3) (2020). Refereed Robson Crim/Criminal Law Edition.
  • Criminal Law Edition of the Manitoba Law Journal - Volume 43, Issue 4, Richard Jochelson, Faculty Editor-in-Chief, with David Ireland, Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich and James Gacek, Editors. Manitoba Law Journal, 43(4) (2020). Refereed Robson Crim/Criminal Law Edition.
  • Criminal Law Edition of the Manitoba Law Journal - Volume 43, Issue 5, Richard Jochelson, Faculty Editor-in-Chief, with David Ireland, Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich and James Gacek, Editors. Manitoba Law Journal, 43(5) (2020). Refereed Robson Crim/Criminal Law Edition.

2019 - Volume 42

  • Criminal Law Edition of the Manitoba Law Journal - Volume 42, Issue 4, Richard Jochelson and David Ireland, Editors. Manitoba Law Journal, 42(4) (2019).
  • Criminal Law Edition of the Manitoba Law Journal - Volume 42, Issue 3, Richard Jochelson and David Ireland, Editors. Manitoba Law Journal, 42(3) (2019).

2018 - Volume 41

  • Criminal Law Edition of the Manitoba Law Journal - Volume 41, Issue 4, Richard Jochelson, David Ireland and Amar Khoday, Editors. Manitoba Law Journal, 41(4) (2018).
  • Criminal Law Edition of the Manitoba Law Journal - Volume 41, Issue 3, Richard Jochelson, David Ireland and Amar Khoday, Editors. Manitoba Law Journal, 41(3) (2018).

Forthcoming and Submitted Academic Contributions

  • Gacek, J., & Jochelson, R. (forthcoming 2027). Making the MAiD Study: Lessons from a Criminology-Law Partnership. In E. Ruhland, J. M. Baldwin, J. Lane, & A. Nellis (Eds.), Handbook on Collaborating Across Differences in Sentencing and Corrections: Process and Outcomes. The ASC Division on Corrections & Sentencing Handbook Series, Vol. 11. Routledge. ISBN 9781041315339.
  • *Bertrand, M. I., Jochelson, R., Medeiros, D.+, & Hermann, D.+ (submitted). "I wish we had better data: What it took to find out Canada has ~1,000 criminal jury trials per year." Manuscript under review at Law and Social Inquiry. Department of Criminal Justice, University of Winnipeg.
  • *Jochelson, R., & Bertrand, M. I. (submitted). "I do not think it means what you think it means": The gap between juror-eligible citizens' self-identified versus assessed understanding of model jury instructions for presumption of innocence, burden of proof, and reasonable doubt. Manuscript submitted to Criminal Law Quarterly or other similar journal. Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba.

Other Scholarly Contributions

Editor, Robsoncrim.com Legal Blogs.

Non-Refereed Contributions

  • Jochelson, R. (2023). Hopefulness in Times of Hate - Letters to and From a Law School. Slaw. Published December 6, 2023.
  • Jochelson, R., Ireland, D., Murchison, M., Ciyilepe, T+., & Koulak, S.+ (2021). Students Face Acute Mental Health Needs During Pandemic Learning. Slaw.

Community Involvement

Dr. Jochelson has been involved in multiple critical committee obligations in the Faculty of Law. He served on Academic Affairs in helping to maintain, develop, protect and adapt the law school curriculum, and was instrumental in helping draft the tenure and promotion policy at the Faculty, before a set of guidelines was mandated by the collective agreement. He was on the workload policy committee that negotiated with the previous (non-acting) Dean to develop uniform teaching guidelines for the Faculty. He served on multiple hiring and tenure/promotion committees since arriving at the Faculty including chairing those committees on multiple occasions. His leadership in these service committees has been instrumental in defining innovation and direction within the Faculty. He served at the highest levels at his previous workplace, on the Faculty Association, culminating in its presidency. His service record brought him into close contact with the now defunct Council on Post-Secondary Education (COPSE) in a number of different contexts. He was a key stakeholder invited to attend meetings with the provincial government about the future of Post-Secondary education at the Deputy Minister of Education’s offices.

The level at which he has served at Manitoba universities has afforded him insight into the organization of post-secondary education in Manitoba. Prior to July 1, 2016, he served multiple terms on the University of Winnipeg Senate and Senate Executive, and was involved in drafting Senate Bylaws for application across the entire university. He served on the research awards committee and chaired that committee at the university level and on the university wide tenure and promotion committee. There, he sat on the university-wide student misconduct committee. Dr. Jochelson is committed to collegial governance and leadership in the academy.

Awards

  • Students’ Teacher Recognition Award (CATL) – 2018