Carissima Mathen
BA (McGill), LLB (Osgoode), LLM (Columbia), of the Bar of Ontario. Professor Mathen joined the Faculty in 2002, becoming Associate Professor in 2006. She teaches Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, and U.S. Constitutional Law.
Professor Mathen has been a visiting scholar at the University of Aberdeen and the University of Toronto; and an invited speaker at conferences all over the world. She is a Harrison McCain Foundation Young Scholar.
From 1994-2001, Professor Mathen was Counsel and, later, Director of Litigation for the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) undertaking equality rights litigation before the Supreme Court of Canada and other courts. Her work has appeared in The Supreme Court Law Review, Osgoode Hall Law Journal, National Journal of Constitutional Law, Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, and Queen’s Law Journal.
Professor Mathen is on leave for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Selected Publications:
- "What Religious Freedom Jurisprudence Reveals about Equality" (2009) 6:2 Journal of Law and Equality 163-200
- "Developments in Constitutional Law: The 2008-2009 Term" (2009) 48 Sup. Ct. L. Rev 71-120
- "Access to Charter Justice and the Rule of Law", (2008) 25 National Journal of Constitutional Law 191
- "Breaking New Ground: The (Largely Unexplored) Power to Make Ancillary Orders Under the Criminal Code" (2008) 25:3 Solicitor's Journal 1
- "Choices and Controversy: Judicial Appointments in Canada" (2008) 58 U.N.B.L.J. 52
- "Appointing Judges in an Age of Judicial Power: Kate Malleson and Peter Russell, eds." (2007-08) 39 Ottawa L.Rev. 133
- "Counting Outsiders: A Critical Exploration of Outsider Course Enrollment in Canadian Legal Education" (2007) 45 Osgoode Hall L.J. 667 (with Natasha Bakht, Kim Brooks Gillian Calder, Jennifer Koshan, Sonia Lawrence, & Debra Parkes)
- "Dialogue Theory, Judicial Review and Judicial Supremacy: A Comment on ‘Charter Dialogue Revisited'" (2007) 45 Osgoode Hall L.J. 125
- "Mutability and Method in the Marriage Reference" (2005) 54 U.N.B.L.J. 43
