Sarah Buhler

• LLM (Saskatchewan)
• LLB (Osgoode Hall)
• BA (Winnipeg)

Sarah Buhler joined the College of Law’s faculty in 2010. Prior to that, she practised law in a Saskatoon firm, taught as a sessional lecturer at the College of Law, and served as the Executive Director and Supervising Lawyer at Community Legal Assistance Services for Saskatoon Inner City (CLASSIC).

Sarah graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2002, receiving a Dean’s Letter of Recognition for Cumulative Academic Excellence for her standing in the top three per cent of her class, as well as several academic prizes. She was called to the Bar in Saskatchewan in 2003, receiving the Saskatoon Bar Association Award for highest standing in the provincial bar admission examinations.

Sarah is the recipient of the University of Saskatchewan Award for Distinction in Outreach and Engagement, the Provost’s College Award for Outstanding Teaching, and the University of Saskatchewan Award for Distinction in Community Engaged Teaching and Scholarship. In 2023, she received the University of Saskatchewan Alumni Achievement Award for Outstanding Impact. 

Sarah is a member of the Law Society of Saskatchewan. She and her husband Charlie have three children.

• Access to Justice
• Housing, Homelessness and the Law
• Intensive Clinical Law
• Legal Ethics and Professionalism

S. Buhler and I. MacLean, Gendered Eviction in Saskatchewan, forthcoming, 2025, Queen’s Law Journal. 

S. Buhler,  Crim-eviction: Eviction and Social Control at a Residential Tenancies Tribunal, forthcoming, 2025, Osgoode Hall Law Journal.

G. Smyth & S. Buhler, “Clinical Legal Education in Canada” for Jeff Giddings, ed., Global Clinical Legal Education. Routledge (forthcoming 2024). 

S. Buhler, M. Biss, R. Shareef, B. Triffo, V. Dirk-Pothier et al, 2024. Submission to the Federal Housing Advocate on Youth and Security of Tenure. https://housingrights.ca/wp-content/uploads/Preventing-Youth-Evictions-in-Canada-Submission-to-the-Federal-Housing-Advocate-by-NRHN-and-CCHR.pdf

S. Buhler & V. Dirk-Pothier, 2024. Building a Human Rights and Youth-Centred Approach to Eviction Law and Practice: Toronto and Saskatoon Workshops Report.  National Right to Housing Network. https://housingrightscanada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Toronto-and-Saskatoon-Workshop-Report-Final-2024.pdf

S. Buhler, 2024. Preventing Youth Evictions: What Young People want Landlords, Lawmakers, and Eviction Adjudicators to Know. Canadian Centre for Housing Rights and the National Right to Housing Network. https://housingrightscanada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/MTS-What-Youth-Want-lawmakers-adjudicators-to-know-Report.pdf. https://housingrightscanada.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/MTS-What-Youth-Want-lawmakers-adjudicators-to-know-Report.pdf

S. Buhler, J. Rogin & C. Johnson, 2024. “The Code of Professional Conduct and Access to Justice: Ethical Practice in a Legal Clinic Context: Student Guide with Questions.  University of Windsor Faculty of Law, online: https://www.uwindsor.ca/law/sites/uwindsor.ca.law/files/final_nov_4_2024_-_code_of_conduct3_1.pdf

S. Buhler, 2024. Keeping Youth Housed: Law and Legal System Reform for Youth Eviction Prevention. Published by Canadian Centre for Housing Rights and the National Right to Housing Network: https://housingrights.ca/wp-content/uploads/Sarah-Buhler-2024-Keeping-Youth-Housed.pdf

S. Buhler, 2023. Written Submission to National Housing Council Review Panel on the Financialization of Rental Housing.  https://housingrights.ca/review-panel-financialization/

S. Buhler and P. Barkaskas, 2023. “The Colonialism of Eviction”  36 Journal of Law and Social Policy 23-43.

S. Buhler, 2022. Security of Tenure and the Right to Counsel for Tenants Facing Eviction, research paper prepared for the Office of the Federal Housing Advocate. https://www.homelesshub.ca/sites/default/files/attachments/Buhler-the_right_to_counsel_for_tenants_facing_eviction-security_of_tenure.pdf

R. Stalker and S. Buhler, 2021. Place-based Education, Clinical Legal Education, and Ethics in Omar Madhloom, ed., Clinical Legal Education: Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives.  Routledge: 2022. 

S. Buhler, 2021. Pandemic Evictions: An Analysis the 2020 Eviction Decisions of Saskatchewan’s Office of Residential Tenancies 35  Journal of Law and Social Policy 68-99.

S. Buhler, 2020. Law Schools, Clinical Legal Education, and the Pandemic Portal in Shauna Van Praagh & David Sandomierski, eds. Law and Learning in the Time of Pandemic: A Collage (2020 25-4 Lex-Electronica) <https://www.lex-electronica.org/s/2084>

S. Buhler and R. Tang, 2020. Navigating Power and Claiming Justice:  Tenant Experiences at Saskatchewan’s Housing Law Tribunal.  36 Windsor Yearbook on Access to Justice 210-230.

S. Buhler and C. Kaiser-Derrick, 2020. Home, Precarious Home: One Year of Housing Law Advocacy at a Saskatoon Legal Clinic. 32 Journal of Law and Social Policy 45-66.

S. Buhler, N. Blenkinsop, C. Johnson, L. Jensen and K. Pidlansky, 2020. Clinical Legal Education on the Ground: A Conversation. 32 Journal of Law and Social Policy 127-137.

Buhler, N. Van Styvendale and P. Settee, 2019. (Re)Mapping Justice in Saskatoon: the Wahkohtowin Project’s Digital Justice Map.  Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research

Buhler and M. Korpan, 2019. Measuring the Impacts of Representation in Legal Aid and Community Legal Services Settings: Considerations for Canadian Research. 56(4) Alberta Law Review

Buhler and A. Dodge, 2019. Policy, Practice, and Privatized Prison Telephones in Saskatchewan.  Canadian Journal of Human Rights(accepted, in press).

N. Van Styvendale, J. McDonald and S. Buhler, 2018. Community Service-Learning in Canada: Emerging Conversations, 2018. Engaged Scholar Journal.

S. Buhler, S. Delanoy, A. Dodge, C. Johnson, J. Mercredi, H. Peters and S. Tu’Inukuafe, 2018. Relationship, Accountability, Justice: A Conversation about Community-Engaged Research. Engaged Scholar Journal.

P. Hitchings, C. Johnson, and S. Tu’Inukuafe in conversation with S. Buhler and N. Van Styvendale. 2018. Challenges and Opportunities of Community Service-Learning. Engaged Scholar Journal.

S. Marsden and S. Buhler, 2017. Legal Competencies for Access to Justice: Two Empirical Studies. Windsor YB Access to Justice. 34 Windsor YB Access Just. 186-208.

S. Buhler, 2017.  Reading Law and Imagining Justice in the Wahkohtowin Classroom. 34 Windsor YB Acc Justice 175-188.

P. Barkaskas and S. Buhler, 2017.  “Beyond Reconciliation: Decolonizing Clinical Legal Education” Journal of Law and Social Policy 26 J Law and Soc Pol’y 1-20. 

S. Buhler, 2017. “Don’t Want to Get Exposed”: Law’s Violence and Access to Justice, 26 Journal of Law and Social Policy 68-89.

S. Buhler, S. Marsden & G. Smyth, Clinical Law: Theory, Practice and Social Justice

Advocacy. Emond Montgomery (2016).  

S. Buhler, 2016. Clinical Legal Education in a Dangerous Time. 23 International Journal of Clinical Legal Education 7-32 (25 pp).

S. Buhler, 2016. Forming Critical Lawyers through Clinical Legal Education. 49 UBC Law Review 105-160.

S. Buhler, 2015.  Clinical Legal Education in Canada: A Survey of the Scholarship Canadian Legal Education Annual Review :1-25.

S Buhler, P. Settee, N. Van Styvendale, 2015. “We went in as Strangers, and Left as Friends”: Building Community in the Wahkohtowin Classroom.  Engaged Scholar Journal, volume 1, issue 2. (96-113).

S. Buhler, P. Settee and N. Van Styvendale (Accepted), 2014.  Teaching and Learning about Justice through Wahkohtowin. Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research, volume 4 182-210. 

Research Project: Building a Human Rights and Youth-Centred Approach to Eviction Law and Practice