Carissima Mathen
Associate Professor
57 Louis Pasteur St, room 119
Ottawa,
Ontario
Canada
K1N 6N5
carissima.mathen@uOttawa.ca
(613) 562-5800 ext 3282
(613) 562-5124
CARISSIMA MATHEN - BA (McGill), LLB (Osgoode), LLM (Columbia), of the Bar of Ontario. Professor Mathen joined the Faculty as Associate Professor in 2011. She teaches Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, and Comparative Civil Liberties. Prior to joining the University of Ottawa, Professor Mathen was a member of the Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick. 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 various journals including 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. Her current scholarship is focused on arbitrariness in criminal law, Aboriginal rights, and the reference function of Canadian courts.
Selected Publications:
“‘The Question Calls for an Answer, and I Propose to Answer It’: The Patriation Reference as Constitutional Method” The Supreme Court Law Review (forthcoming)
Women, Law and Equality: A Discussion Guide (Toronto: Irwin, 2010) (with Kim Brooks)
"What Religious Freedom Jurisprudence Reveals about Equality" (2009) 6:2 Journal of Law and Equality 163
“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
“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