Kristen Stallard

Biography

After working as a summer student and articling with Patterson Law, Kristen joined the firm as an associate lawyer in 2021. Prior, she completed judicial clerkships at the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal and at the Federal Court of Appeal with the Honourable Justice Wyman W. Webb. Her interests include constitutional and administrative law, human rights, professional regulation, employment disputes, and commercial litigation.

Kristen recently completed a LLM from the University of Cambridge with the support of the Canadian Bar Association’s Viscount Bennett Fellowship. She also holds a JD and MPA from Dalhousie University, a MA in Political Science from the University of Toronto (funded by a Canada Graduate Scholarships Program-Masters Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada), and a BA (First Class Honours) in Political Science from St. Francis Xavier University.

Kristen is currently teaching Administrative Law at Dalhousie University and coaching a team of Dalhousie law students in the national Laskin Moot competition on constitutional and administrative law. She has also remained active in the Dalhousie law school community as a judge of second year moots and as a Civil Procedure Workshop Instructor.

Additionally, Kristen is the current Chair of the Administrative Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association-Nova Scotia Branch. She previously served as Vice Chair of the Section from 2022-2024.