Julia Brown

Associate

(416) 981-9353

Julia Brown is an associate at OKT.  Her practice focuses on negotiation, advocacy and litigation advancing Aboriginal rights and title and Treaty rights. Julia has assisted clients with matters ranging from the protection of sacred landscapes to defending harvesting rights to asserting self-governance and jurisdiction rights. Julia has appeared before courts and administrative tribunals in several Canadian jurisdictions, including at the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. 

Prior to joining OKT, Julia practiced at a leading litigation firm in Toronto and in the legal aid clinic system.  

Julia is a Part-Time Lecturer at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law, teaching Aboriginal Law and Property Law tutorials. She holds an LL.M. from Osgoode Hall Law School, where she was the grateful recipient of SSHRC funding and the Harley D. Hallet Graduate Scholarship. Julia completed her J.D. at the University of Western Ontario, where she won awards for advocacy and academic excellence. 

Julia is a member of the Ontario bar.

Representative Work

  • Represented Innu Nation at the Commission of Inquiry Respecting the Muskrat Falls Project. 
  • Represented the Chiefs of Ontario in its intervention at the Supreme Court of Canada advocating for reduced barriers to litigation funding for s. 35 cases. 
  • Represented Innu Nation, Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation and Mushuau Innu First Nation in an injunction application to prevent the Governments of Newfoundland and Labrador and Canada from concluding a financial restructuring agreement relating to the Muskrat Falls Project without first consulting and accommodating the Innu of Labrador.