Joao Velloso is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law (Common Law and Civil Law Sections) of the University of Ottawa, teaching both in English and French. He has an interdisciplinary background in Law, Anthropology, Criminology, Sociology and Communication. He works in the areas of sentencing, critical criminology and socio-legal studies, more particularly sociology and anthropology of law. He is particularly interested in the judicialization of social problems and the governance of security through the use of different legal regimes, mainly the intersections between criminal law and administrative law. His empirical research deals with carceral governance and the penalization of protesters, immigrants and drug users, with a special focus on great events such as G20 Summits, deportation, regulation of cannabis and access to justice in detention (parole and disciplinary boards). He is a member of the uOttawa Human Rights Education and Research Center at the University of Ottawa and a co-investigator in different Canadian and international research networks, such as: the Access to Law and Access to Justice project (ADAJ, www.adaj.ca), the Observatoire des profilages (https://profilages.info/), the Institute of Comparative Studies in Conflict Management (INCT-InEAC, http://www.ineac.uff.br/, Brazil), the Observatory of Violence and Criminalization in Latin America (https://ovcd.org/), the Canadian Partnership for International Justice (https://cpij-pcji.ca/), the Ottawa Hub for Reduction Network (https://ottawaharmredux.org/) and the Prison Transparency Project (https://carleton.ca/prisontransparencyproject/).