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Jane Dickson

BA Criminology, 1984│MA Criminology, 1988

Jane Dickson is a Full Professor of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University, where she teaches and researches in the areas of Indigenous people and justice, sentencing and Gladue. Jane has a long and distinguished history of research and grassroots capacity building with Indigenous communities on justice-related issues. A highly respected researcher and Gladue writer, Jane has provided judicial education and support to the Ontario Court of Justice, and training to the National Parole Board of Canada, the Office of Federal Correctional Investigator and Indigenous communities across Canada. Jane’s work has also included seven years of service as an Indian Claims Commissioner with the Indian Specific Claims Commission from 2002-2009 and two terms (2010-2011) on Legal Aid Ontario’s Aboriginal Advisory Committee; in 2017/18 she sat on the Expert Advisory Group on FAS for the Ministry of Justice and Solicitor General, Government of Alberta. She has appeared as an expert before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal and the Federal Court of Canada and has provided expert advice as a member of the United States Department of Justice’s Expert Working Groups on Tribal Justice and Indigent Justice; she is also a contributing member of the Strategic Development Committee of the Ottawa Indigenous Peoples’ Court. She was the evaluator of Legal Aid Saskatchewan’s Gladue Pilot Project and recently completed an Ontario-wide evaluation of Legal Aid Ontario’s Gladue services (Nishnawbe-Aski Legal Services, Grand Council Treaty 3, Aboriginal Legal Services). Jane is the recipient of numerous academic awards, including a Governor Generals’ Gold Medal, a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship, among others, and is the author of numerous academic publications.