CRAIG MARTIN

Craig Martin is a Canadian lawyer currently in his third year of the S.J.D. programme at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. His areas of interest are international law and comparative constitutional law. His current research focuses on the relationship between constitutional and international law constraints on the use of armed force, with an emphasis on the operation of the international law norms incorporated into the Japanese Constitution of 1947.

Mr. Martin graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada with a B.A. in history, and served four years as a Naval Officer in the Canadian Forces, during which time he served as a divisional and watchkeeping officer in HMCS Preserver, as public affairs officer at CFB Halifax, and as naval attaché in the Canadian Mission to the United Nations in New York City. He then went to Japan on a Monbushō Scholarship, where his research was on conflicts between Japan and the U.S. over Japan’s international legal interests in Manchuria in the 1920s, and he graduated from Osaka University, Graduate School of Law and Politics, with an LL.M. Upon returning to Canada he studied at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, where he received a J.D.

Upon being called to the Bar of Ontario, Mr. Martin practiced civil litigation for several years in Toronto, at Stikeman Elliott LLP and Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP, appearing before all levels of court and various administrative tribunals in Ontario. He also taught comparative constitutional law (intensive courses) as a visiting lecturer for several years at Osaka University, and taught a comparative law course on internet regulation as adjunct faculty for two years at Osgoode Hall Law School. He left practice in 2006 to pursue his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania.

Curriculum Vitae available here in pdf format