Caitlin Salvino
Biography:
CAITLIN SALVINO was a Junior Fellow at Massey College between 2021 and 2024. After completing a B.A. in Human Rights and Transnational Law at Carleton University, she completed an MPhil and DPhil (PhD) in Law at the University of Oxford where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar (Ontario, 2018). Her graduate research focused on the notwithstanding clause in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
While at Massey College, she was a Juris Doctor student at the University of Toronto. As a law student, she acted as co-Editor in Chief of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review and was heavily involved in efforts to increase supports for disabled law students.
Reflecting her long-standing commitment to community advocacy, she received the 2022 Governor General Persons Case Award for outstanding contributions to gender equality in Canada. In 2023, she also received the Rt. Hon. Governor General Adrianne Clarkson Laureateship for Public Service.
Caitlin is passionate about combining research and advocacy. Her work has been published by the Supreme Court Law Review, the UBC Law Review, McGill-Queen’s University Press, and Journal of Law and Equality, among others. She has also been quoted or had her work featured in The Globe and Mail, Macleans, Ottawa Citizen, and the CBC, among others.
Activities:
- 2022-04-11 – Notwithstanding Clause at 40: Canadian Constitutional Democracy at a Crossroads
- 2023-01-18 – The Unwritten Constitution: Conventions, Traditions and Norms in Our Populist Age