Benjamin Perryman

Research interests

• constitutional law
• comparative law
• evidence
• immigration law

Biography

Benjamin Perryman is an Associate Professor at the University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law. He teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, evidence, migration, and private international law, focusing on the intersection between social science evidence and judicial decision-making.

Benjamin holds a JD from Osgoode Hall Law School and an LLM and JSD from Yale Law School, where he was a Fulbright Scholar and Trudeau Scholar. Before joining the University of New Brunswick, Benjamin taught at the Schulich School of Law and Saint Mary’s University, practised human rights law, and clerked at the Federal Court (Canada) and Supreme Court of Nova Scotia.

Benjamin represents individuals and organizations in strategic litigation engaging constitutional rights, especially civil liberties and equality rights. He has advocated for the educational rights of 2SLGBTQIA+ students, the right to protest public health restrictions, the rights of detainees to be free from solitary confinement, and the rights of non-citizens facing deportation.

Courses taught

• Constitutional law (Law 1600)
• Evidence (Law 2243)
• Conflict of laws (Law 2323)
• Comparative constitutional law (Law 3809)

Selected publications

B. Perryman, “Prescribing Plenary Powers: The Evolution and Intersection of Criminal and Health Jurisdiction in Canadian Federalism” (2024) 5 Sup Ct L Rev (3d) 265.

B. Perryman, “Regulating Restraint: Legal Oversight of Seclusion in Canadian Forensic Psychiatric Hospitals” (2024) 39:2 Can J L & Soc 289.

B. Perryman, “Proving Discrimination: Evidentiary Barriers and Section 15(1) of the Charter” (2024) 114 Sup Ct L Rev (2d) 93.

B. Perryman, “Citizenship, Belonging, and Deportation” (2023) 11:1 Can J Hum Rts 91.

B. Perryman, “Adducing Social Science Evidence in Constitutional Cases” (2018) 44:1 Queen’s LJ 121.