Legal Consulting Services

Experienced Legal Consultant & Strategic Advisor

Dr. Kim Stanton provides strategic advice and legal consulting services focused on systemic investigations, public inquiries, constitutional law, Indigenous rights, and gender-based violence. Her work seeks to achieve public accountability and systemic change.

Dr. Stanton has provided advice on groundbreaking Indigenous law revitalization projects and she is a Canadian expert on the institutional design of commission processes. Contact her to explore how her insightful, pragmatic and innovative approach can support you in addressing a complex matter.

"I work with clients to develop strategic approaches that advance their immediate interests and contribute to broader legal and social progress."

Many of us have benefited from Kim's generosity, her intellectual firepower, her strategic acumen, and her wit. We've all benefited from Kim's wisdom, her refusal to accept the exclusionary status quo or to settle for received wisdom about the limits of the legal process. Kim always pushes those around her and the institutions with which she engages to set their sights higher, to be more inclusive, more daring, and ultimately to reach for a more complete vision of justice.

Emma Cunliffe, Professor, Allard School of Law, UBC, and Director of Research and Policy, Mass Casualty Commission, speaking at the launch of Dr. Stanton's book, Reconciling Truths: Reimagining Public Inquiries in Canada.

Institutional Design & Leadership

Dr. Stanton wrote her doctoral dissertation and her book, Reconciling Truths, on the institutional design of commissions of inquiry and truth commissions. She brought her deep knowledge to the design of the Mass Casualty Commission, which was mandated to be guided by restorative principles in carrying out its work, and to her work as an independent systemic reviewer for the BC government on the legal system's treatment of intimate partner violence and sexual violence.

See the op-ed by Dr. Stanton regarding the calls for a public inquiry into the February 2026 mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, BC: "Canada has the information to help prevent the next mass shooting" Globe and Mail (April 24, 2026)

The cover of UBC's Alumni Magazine from 2024. Kim Stanton is featured on the cover wearing a blue blazer and looking to the right. The headline reads 'Nurturing justice with sunlight & time'.

Changing the nature of commissions, changing the format in which commissions operate so that they can accomplish more than simply solve a problem or help the government put it on the shelf is one of the things that Kim does best and it is one of the things to which she has devoted her professional life….

When Kim innovates the form and the purpose of commissions of inquiry she does us all a service … because the commissions organized along the lines advocated by Kim are commissions that will enter the spirit of a nation's life … so that the commission becomes not just a process of inquiry but a process of change."

Mary Eberts, OC, trailblazing constitutional litigator, speaking at the launch of Dr. Stanton's book, Reconciling Truths: Reimagining Public Inquiries in Canada.