Lawyer; advocate; scholar.

Reakash Walters is a Canadian lawyer and doctoral student at Berkeley School of Law. She is also a Research Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Institute to End Mass Incarceration.

Walters' scholarship concerns the constitutive power of race in criminal legal institutions. Her doctoral research is generously supported by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and a full Robbins JSD Fellowship.

Reakash Walters completed her Master of Laws at Columbia University as a Fulbright Scholar and a Davis Polk Fellow with High Honors; she also completed her J.D. cum laude at the University of Ottawa. Walters served as a law clerk to Justice Sheilah Martin at the Supreme Court of Canada.

Reakash Walters is called to the bar of Ontario, Canada. Before graduate school, she practiced as a criminal defence lawyer at a top criminal law firm in Toronto, Ontario. Walters appeared before all levels of court, including before the Supreme Court of Canada in R v Beaver, 2022 SCC 54. Beaver is a leading constitutional and criminal law case that serves to clarify the test for the admission of evidence in criminal law trials.

Walters currently serves on the board of the Canadian Law and Society Association (CLSA), the intellectual gathering place for socio-legal scholarship.