Carissima Mathen

Carissima Mathen, LSM, is a professor of law at the University of Ottawa. She holds degrees from McGill University, Osgoode Hall Law School, and Columbia University. A noted constitutional scholar, she is the author of The Tenth Justice: Judicial Appointments, Marc Nadon and the Supreme Court Act Reference (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2020) (with Michael Plaxton) and Courts Without Cases: The Law and Politics of Advisory Opinions (Oxford: Hart, 2019), which won Second Place Distinction in the prestigious Walter Owen Book Competition. As the former director of litigation for the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), Professor Mathen undertook path-breaking litigation in equality rights cases before the Supreme Court of Canada. An award-winning media commentator and Ontario Law Society medalist, Professor Mathen is committed to public education and legal literacy. In addition to her books, Professor Mathen has published on all aspects of constitutional law, as well as criminal law, legal theory, and law and technology.