Janet Epp Buckingham LL.D.

LLC Director; Associate Professor of Political Studies and History

Department: LLC; Political Studies; History

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Area of Expertise: Religious Freedom, Human Rights, Church/State Relations

Education: B.A. History (Western Ontario); LL.B.(Dalhousie); LL.D. (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)

Janet Epp Buckingham is an associate professor at Trinity Western University and the Director of the Laurentian Leadership Centre, an Ottawa-based, live-in, extension program focusing on leadership in public policy, business and communications.

Dr. Buckingham has lived and studied in England, France and South Africa. It was while studying at bible college and working with the Jubilee Centre in Cambridge, England, that she developed a passion for applying Christian principles to public policy. Dr. Buckingham served in an advocacy role as Executive Director of Christian Legal Fellowship (1991-94) and with the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada as general legal counsel (1999-2003) and director, law and public policy (2003-2006).

In the fall of 2006, Dr. Buckingham had a strong sense of calling to take on leadership of the Laurentian Leadership Centre. While she had taught courses at the LLC, being the director gives her greater opportunity to invest in the lives of students. She is also pleased to now participate in academic conferences on religious freedom and human rights in Canada and internationally.

Dr. Buckingham currently resides in Ottawa, Canada with her husband and two children.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

Law Society of Upper Canada (member in good standing since 1991)
Law and Society Association
Law and Religion Scholars Network

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

"Drivers Needed: Tough Choices from Alberta v. Wilson Colony of Hutterian Brethren" (2010), 18 Constitutional Forum 109.

"Panel Discussion: World's Religions, Human Rights, and Same-Sex Marriage," in A. Sharma, ed., Part of the Problem, Part of the Solution: Religion Today and Tomorrow (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2008), 104.

"The Fundamentals of Religious Freedom: The Case for Recognizing Collective Aspects of Religion," (2007), 36 Supreme Court Law Rev. (2d) 251.

With Darrel Reid, "Whose Rights? Whose Freedoms?" in Divorcing Marriage: Unveiling the Dangers in Canada's New Social Experiment, Daniel Cere and Douglas Farrow (ed.) ((McGill-Queen's University Press: 2004), 79-93.

Monthly column "Canada Today" in ChristianWeek.