Martha Jackman
Full Professor
57 Louis Pasteur St., Room 383
Ottawa,
Ontario
Canada
K1N 6N5
Martha.Jackman@uottawa.ca
(613) 562-5800, Ext. 3299
(613) 562-5124
Martha Jackman, B.A. (Queen’s), LL.B. (University of Toronto), LL.M. (Yale), specializes in the area of constitutional law, with a particular focus on issues relating to women and other marginalized groups. She joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa in 1988. She has held various positions within the law school: Director of Graduate Studies in Law; co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law; Vice-Dean of the French Common Law Program; and Shirley E. Greenberg Chair for Women and the Legal Profession. She publishes primarily in the areas of socio-economic rights, equality and the Canadian Charter. She appears regularly before law reform bodies, lawyers, judges and parliamentary committees. She has acted as legal counsel in a number of important Charter cases, including before the Supreme Court of Canada in the Eldridge and Chaoulli cases. She is a member of the National Steering Committee of the National Association of Women and the Law and a former member of Equality Rights Panel of the Court Challenges Program of Canada and of the Board of Directors of the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund. She is the academic director of a five-year, million dollar research project: "Reconceiving Human Rights Practice for the New Social Rights Paradigm", funded under the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council's Community-UniversityResearch Alliance Program. In 2001, she was awarded the Augusta Stowe-Gullen Affirmative Action medal in recognition of her contribution to the advancement of women’s equality. In 2007, she received the Law Society of Upper Canada Medal, which is awarded each year to selected lawyers who have made important contributions to the profession.
Social Rights in Canada - A Community-University Research Alliance Project (CURA)