Education
LL.M. (2021), McGill University.
J.D. (2019), Osgoode Hall Law School of York University.
BA (Hons) (2016), University of Waterloo.
Courses
- Introduction to Law (POL-307)
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Kristopher Kinsinger is an Ontario lawyer. He received his Juris Doctor from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2019, where he was the recipient of several scholarships and prizes, before completing his articles of clerkship with a national law firm in Waterloo, Ontario. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 2020, and received his Master of Laws from McGill University in 2021 on a SSHRC scholarship and with the Pilarczyk Graduate Award in Law. Between 2021 and 2024, he served full-time as the national director of the Runnymede Society, a major Canadian legal organization. Kristopher鈥檚 writing regularly appears in periodicals such as The Supreme Court Law Review, Constitutional Forum, the National Post, and The Hub. In 2021, Kristopher was selected to join the inaugural cohort of the prestigious NextGen Fellowship with the Cardus think tank, and served two terms between 2017 and 2023 on the board of directors of Christian Legal Fellowship, Canada’s national association of Christian lawyers and law students. He currently serves as the chair of the Canadian Bar Association鈥檚 Constitutional and Human Rights Section and as a member and deacon of Hespeler Baptist Church in Cambridge, Ontario. In his free time, Kristopher can be found reading, writing, drinking coffee, listening to vinyl, or mapping out his next backcountry camping trip.
Research Interests
- Fundamental freedoms
- Constitutionalism and the rule of law
- State religious neutrality
- Constitutional methodology and doctrine
- Legal interpretation
- Canadian legal history聽
Recent Publications
Articles and Chapters
(w/ Gerard Kennedy) (2024) 114 SCLR (2d) (forthcoming)
鈥淭o Entrench or Not to Entrench? Canadian Constitutionalism and the Bill of Rights Debate鈥 (2023) 28:1 Rev Const Stud 121 (peer reviewed)聽
in Peter Biro, ed., The Notwithstanding Clause and the Canadian Charter: Rights, Reforms and Controversies (Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2024; peer reviewed)
(w/ Brian Bird) (2023) 110 SCLR (2d) 31
(2022) 105 SCLR (2d) 395
IJRF Vol 13:1/2 2020 (peer reviewed)
(2021) 30:1 Const Forum Const 1
(2020) 98 SCLR (2d) 377
(2019) 91 SCLR (2d) 219
Edited Collections
Private Rights and the Rule of Law (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2024), w/ Malcolm Lavoie and Gerard Kennedy (forthcoming; symposium held in July 2023; to be concurrently published as a special volume of the Supreme Court Law Review)
Unwritten Constitutionalism (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2023),聽 w/ Maxime St-Hilaire and Ryan Alford (symposium held in March 2022; concurrently published as volume 110 of the Supreme Court Law Review)
Research Funding聽
- Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master鈥檚 (SSHRC), 2021; awarded for pursuit of LLM research project supervised by Professor Colleen Sheppard at McGill University, titled 鈥淧utting the 鈥楩undamental鈥 Back in Fundamental Freedoms (or How to Solve the Problem of the Notwithstanding Clause)鈥
Awards and Certifications聽
- NextGen Fellow (2021-2022, Cardus)
- Pilarczyk Graduate Award in Law (2021, McGill University)
- Barrister & Solicitor (2020, Law Society of Ontario)
- Bora Laskin Prize (2019, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University)
- Hon. Ian Scott Public Interest Internship Award (2017, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University; awarded for internship w/ Christian Legal Fellowship)
- Hon. William G.C. Howland Award of Excellence Entrance Scholarship (2016, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University; renewed in 2017 and 2018)
- Departmental Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in History (2016, University of Waterloo)
- Dean鈥檚 Honours List Graduate (2016, University of Waterloo