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Tel: 215.275.4366
Fax: 215.701.4341
Email: craigxmartin@gmail.com
Expertise
- Comparative Constitutional Law
- Comparative Law
- International Law
- Japanese Law
Bio
Craig Martin is a lawyer and legal scholar whose primary areas of interest are international law and the laws of war, the relationship between international law and constitutional law, and comparative constitutional law. He has studied law in Canada, Japan, and the United States, and he has a particular interest in Japanese law. His current research focus is on the relationship between constitutional and international law constraints on the use of armed force, using the Japanese Constitutional experience as the basis for the development of ideas on systemic legal constraints on war. This research brings to bear perspectives and theoretical work from international law, international relations, constitutional law, and military, political, and legal history.
Martin graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada, and served four years as a naval officer in the Canadian Armed Forces, during which time he was naval attaché in the Canadian Mission to the United Nations. He spent four years in Japan on a Monbusho scholarship, during which he obtained an LL.M. from Osaka University. He then obtained his J.D. from the University of Toronto, following which he practiced civil litigation for several years at Stikeman Elliott LLP and Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP in Toronto. He left practice in 2006 to undertake an S.J.D. at Penn Law.
Martin has for several years taught intensive courses on comparative constitutional law as a visiting lecturer at Osaka University, Graduate School of Law and Politics, and taught comparative law as an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. He has published scholarly work in the area of both public and private international law, Japanese constitutional law, and negotiation theory. He is a regular contributor to The Japan Times, and also publishes opinion pieces and feature articles in other mainstream media.
Representative Professional Positions
Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin (Toronto) -- Litigation Lawyer (2002-06)
Stikeman Elliott (Toronto) -- Litigation Lawyer (1997-2002)
Canadian Armed Forces - Naval Lieutenant (1986-90)
Representative Publications
Glimmers of Hope: The Evolution of Eqality Rights Doctrine in Japanese Courts, From a Comparative Perspecive, 20 Duke J. Comp & Int'l L. (2010) (forthcoming)
Binding the Dogs of War: Japan and the Constitutionalizing of Jus ad Bellum, 30
U. PA. J. INT'L L. 267 (2008).
Coming of Age: The Courts and Equality Rights in Japan’s Aging Society, in THE DEMOGRAPHIC CHALLENGE: A HANDBOOK ABOUT JAPAN (Florian Coulmas et al, eds., Leiden, 2008).
Unequal Shadows: Negotiation Theory and Spousal Support Under Canadian
Divorce Law, 56 U. TORONTO FAC. L. REV. 135 (1998) (cited
by the Supreme Court of Canada in Bracklow v. Bracklow, [1999] 1 S.C.R. 420; Miglin v. Miglin, [2003] 1 S.C.R. 303; and Rick v.
Brandesma (2009), 10 SCC 2009)
Tolofson and Flames in Cyberspace: the Changing Landscape of Multistate
Defamation, 31 U.B.C. L. REV. 127 (1997).
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Education
- S.J.D. (expected) - Penn Law - '09
- J.D. - University of Toronto - '97
- LL.M. - Osaka University - '94
- B.A. - Royal Military College of Canada - '86
Courses Taught
- The evolution of international and constitutional legal constraints on war.
Research Areas
- international law
- national security law and the laws of war
- national security and human rights
- comparative constitutional law
- Japanese law
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