Padraic Ryan is counsel at the Constitutional Law Branch of the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General. After being called to the Ontario bar in 2012, he clerked at the Federal Court and the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He has argued Charter, federalism, and Human Rights Code cases before the Court of Appeal for Ontario, the Divisional Court, and the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, and has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada in interventions concerning constitutional law.