Julie-Ann Kirkpatrick

PhD Candidate

I have completed a B.A (Honours) and M.A. from Trent University, obtained my Law Degree from Osgoode Hall Law School, and am in my 2nd year of Carleton’s PhD program in Law & Political Economy

I am a working-class girl from Thunder Bay, Ontario with a solid social justice background, put into practice over the course of a twenty year legal career before beginning a PhD at Carleton.  My research interests centre on sections 7 and 12 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

My supervisor is Dr. Stacy Douglas

CONFERENCES AND SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

2025    “Indigenous Child Welfare and the Right to Psychological Integrity” Temagami Colloquium (Temagami, Ontario, September 28th, 2025)

2025    “Trust: The Canada Child Benefit and Children in the Care of the State” Anser Conference (Toronto, Ontario, May 30, 2025)

2025    “Fair Process: The Right to Psychological Integrity under the Charter” Law & Society Conference (Chicago, Illinois, May 22, 2025)

2024    “The “Five Day” Hearing: An example of opportunities and obstacles in the exercise of the constitutionally guaranteed right to psychological integrity” Toward Ethical Public Affairs, Graduate Student Symposium, Faculty of Public Affairs, Carleton University (March 8, 2024)

2024    “Overcoming Interpretive Limits of Section 7 of the Charter” In/And/Or “Canada”: Positionings, Practices, Paradigms, Graduate Student Symposium, School of Canadian Studies, Carleton University (April 25, 2024)