jswaisland

Personal Information

Full Name

Jacqueline Swaisland

E-mail Address

jswaisland@gmail.com

Languages (Spoken / Written)

English

Phone Extension (416-482-6501)

TBC

Law Information

Practicing Since (Year)

01/24/2007

Graduate Of (School and Year)

Queens University

Summary (Short)

Jacqueline Swaisland is an Associate at Waldman and Associates in Toronto. In 2008 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue graduate work at Harvard University where she received an LL.M. in International Human Rights and Comparative Constitutional Law.

Biography (Detail)

Jacqueline Swaisland is an Associate at Waldman and Associates in Toronto. In 2008 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue graduate work at Harvard University where she received an LL.M. in International Human Rights and Comparative Constitutional Law. Her LL.M. thesis was entitled Constitution as Conscience Model in Canada, and examined the extraterritorial application of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Ms. Swaisland completed her B.A. at the University of Guelph as a President's Scholar in philosophy and business administration, and then received her LL.B. from Queen's University where she was President of the Law Student's Society and Managing Editor of the Queen’s Law Journal.
Prior to her graduate work, Ms. Swaisland clerked at the Federal Court of Appeal of Canada and worked at the Constitutional Law Branch of the Ontario Attorney General's Office.
Ms. Swaisland has acted as counsel in cases at all levels of Court, including three times as co-counsel before the Supreme Court of Canada. She recently acted as counsel for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association in the Ontario Court of Appeal case A.M.R.I. v. K.E.R., 2011 ONCA 417 and as Appellant’s counsel in Peer v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) 2011 FCA 91 before the Federal Court of Appeal. Ms. Swaisland has also presented at several conferences on international and refugee law topics, acted as a guest lecturer at Queen’s Faculty of Law, and has provided research assistance for international legal initiatives including for the set-up of a government-funded Iraqi truth commission.
Ms. Swaisland is currently doing a PhD at the University of Toronto where she plans to focus on the impact of externally mandated security guidelines on domestic human rights.

History

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