Getting Comfortable with Discomfort Over Rights

UNB Law professor Carissima Mathen has recently published an article in Lawyers Weekly. Appearing in the April 17 edition of Lawyers Weekly, Professor Mathen's article addresses the pressing issue of conflicting Charter rights in Canadian constitutional law.

Full copy of the article entitled "Getting Comfortable with Discomfort Over Rights"

Professor Mathen joined the Faculty in 2002, becoming Associate Professor in 2006. She teaches Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, and U.S. Constitutional Law. She 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, she 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.

Posted May 12, 2009 at 10:27 AM