Jena McGill
Assistant Professor
538-540 King Edward Street, Room 212
Ottawa,
Ontario
Canada
K1N 6N5
jena.mcgill@uOttawa.ca
(613) 562 5800 ext. 7905
(613) 562-5124
B.A/Sc. (Hons.) (McMaster University), LL.B. (University of Ottawa), M.A. International Affairs (Carleton University), LL.M. (Yale University), of the Bar of Ontario.
Jena McGill graduated from the joint LL.B./M.A. program of the University of Ottawa Faculty of Common Law and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, and then served as a law clerk to Madam Justice Louise Charron at the Supreme Court of Canada. She completed her graduate studies at Yale University Law School. Professor McGill has worked at the United Nations International Law Commission in Geneva, Switzerland, and she taught Torts and Constitutional Law at the University of Ottawa in 2009-10.
Professor McGill’s research focuses on legal approaches sexual and gender-based violence in the domestic and international contexts. Her work incorporates elements of criminal, constitutional and international law, human rights, and critical and feminist legal theory. She has researched and written on topics including sexual exploitation and abuse in United Nations peacekeeping missions, privacy and equality law, domestic violence and Canadian prison reform.