Kristen Stallard

Biography

Kristen is an associate lawyer in the civil litigation department. Her interests include constitutional and administrative law, human rights, professional regulation, employment disputes, and commercial litigation.

After working as a summer student and articling with Patterson Law, Kristen joined the firm as an associate lawyer in 2021. She has also completed judicial clerkships at the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal and at the Federal Court of Appeal with the Honourable Justice Wyman W. Webb.

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

Since graduating, Kristen has remained active in the Dalhousie law school community. She has taught Administrative Law as a part-time faculty member, coached a team of Dalhousie law students in the national Laskin Moot competition on constitutional and administrative law, acted as a guest judge for the Laskin Moot, taught Civil Procedure Workshops as an instructor, and acted as a guest judge in second year moots.

Additionally, Kristen has collaborated with Dalhousie Professor Emeritus Wayne MacKay on a book chapter entitled “Evolving Fundamental Principles and Merging Public Law Silos: The Reshaping of Canada’s Constitutional Landscape,” published in Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, 6^th ed, edited by Errol Mendes and Stéphane Beaulac (LexisNexis Canada, 2025).

Kristen has also been active in the Nova Scotia legal community as Chair (2024-2026) and Vice Chair (2022-2024) of the Administrative Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association-Nova Scotia Branch.