Jennifer Anne Klinck

She is deeply interested in the role of law and institutions in ensuring government accountability and respect for human rights.

Jennifer’s constitutional interests include Charter rights, Aboriginal law, and the federal/provincial division of powers. She advises on complex constitutional and administrative law questions, and on the compliance of institutional structures, policies, and practices with public law norms. Her keen interest in official language rights is informed by her personal experience splitting her education between French-language minority schooling in Fredericton, NB, and English-language minority schooling in Montreal, QC.

Jennifer is experienced at preparing and presenting appellate submissions, particularly before the Supreme Court of Canada. Her appellate advocacy work includes consultation services to tailor appellate submissions for the Supreme Court of Canada in all areas of law.

Before joining Power Law, Jennifer worked for three years in the public law and appellate advocacy practice group of a national firm. Prior to entering the legal practice, she clerked for the former Justice Marshall Rothstein of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Jennifer has also undertaken numerous pro bono projects. She has represented Amnesty International in a number of appellate and Supreme Court of Canada cases, is the Chair of the Legal Issues Committee of the Egale Human Rights Trust, and has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Cambridge Pro Bono Project.

Jennifer was an adjunct professor at UBC’s Allard School of Law, where she taught Women, Law and Social Change.