Martha Jackman
Canadian legal scholar
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Martha Jackman FRSC is a professor of law at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law.[1] Her scholarship focuses on constitutional law.[2][3]
Jackman received her JD from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and an LLM from Yale Law School.[4] In 2012, she delivered testimony to a committee of the Senate of Canada on the Charter implications of proposed amendments to the Criminal Code.[5] She has been a member of the national steering committee of the National Association of Women and the Law since 2007.[6]
Jackman was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2017 and received the David Walter Mundell Medal from the government of Ontario in 2018 in recognition of her legal writing.[4] In 2019 she was the academic recipient of the Guardians of Public Health Care awards through the Canadian Health Coalition[7].