Tina Northrup: Staff Lawyer
Kostantina (Tina) Northrup is a settler Nova Scotian who was born in Toronto and raised in New Brunswick from a young age.
Before pursuing a career in law, Tina earned graduate degrees in English literature through research on environmental writing by Canadian poets and novelists. Ultimately, her interests in environmental and climate justice inspired her to enter the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University with the goal of becoming a public-interest environmental lawyer.
Tina graduated from the Schulich School of Law in 2019 and was called to the bar in 2020, and she joined East Coast Environmental Law as a staff lawyer at that time. Her areas of special interest include energy law, climate law, environmental impact assessment law, human rights to a healthy environment, rights of nature, and Aboriginal law and Indigenous law in environmental contexts.
Tina has provided public legal education and training in New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. She has appeared before government committees in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Ottawa, and she has advocated on behalf of clients before the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board and the Nova Scotia Energy Board. She teaches part-time at the Schulich School of Law, and she has supervised Schulich students undertaking Directed Research Projects and the Environmental Law Placement course.
When Tina completed her law degree at Schulich, she received the Elizabeth May Award for Environmental Service. In addition to volunteering with East Coast Environmental Law, she has served as a Co-Chair of the Environmental Law Students’ Society at Schulich and a Co-Chair of the Energy Action Team at the Ecology Action Centre. She has also volunteered with the Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities and Community Health (“ENRICH”) Project, the Adult Literacy Program at Halifax Public Libraries, and the Out of the Cold shelter. She currently co-chairs the Truth and Reconciliation Committee of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society and is a member of the CLIMAtlantic Advisory Committee.
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