Chantelle van Wiltenburg is a J.S.D. candidate at Yale Law School, where she obtained her LL.M. degree in 2022. She also holds a J.D. degree from the University of Toronto (2018), and a B.A. in English literature from McGill University (2015).
Prior to commencing her doctoral studies, Chantelle practiced for five years as a litigator in Vancouver, Canada with a focus on public law disputes including criminal, administrative, constitutional, and human rights law. She also previously served as judicial law clerk with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Toronto.
Chantelle’s research interests center on language and legal interpretation. She has a keen interest in interdisciplinary methodologies, particularly in the fields of literature and philosophy, as well as emerging issues in law and technology. Her doctoral project combines these interests by examining judicial arbitrariness through the lens of numeric reasoning.
Chantelle is a resident fellow of Yale’s Information Society Project, and a previous fellow of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Her work has been published in law journals in the US and Canada.
Education
LL.M., Yale Law School, 2022
J.D., University of Toronto (2018)
B.A. in English literature from McGill University (2015)
Contact Information
c.vanwiltenburg@yale.edu