SC Talk, Nathalie DesRosiers, “No Shortage of Injustices”
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February 10, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Speaker: Nathalie DesRosiers, Principal, Massey College
SC Talk: “No Shortage of Injustices”
Host and Introducer: Linda Corman
Abstract: The talk will deal with two main issues:
1. The perplexing issue of the interaction between economic vulnerability and legal rights;
2. The role of legal advocacy: its relationship with politics and its strategical questions.
Bio:
Nathalie Des Rosiers is the Principal of Massey College. From 2016 -2019, she was MPP representing the riding of Ottawa-Vanier. She was Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry from January to June 2018. Prior to politics, she had been the Dean of Law, Common Law, University of Ottawa (2013-2016), General Counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (2009-2013), Vice-President, Governance , University of Ottawa (2008-2009), Dean of Law, Civil Law ( 2004-2008) and President of the Law Commission of Canada( 2000-2004).
With Peter Oliver and Patrick Macklem, she co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Canadian Constitutional Law (2017). She also wrote with Louise Langevin and Marie-Pier Nadeau, L’indemnisation des victimes de violence sexuelle et conjugale (Prix Walter Owen, 2014). She has received the Order of Canada, the Order of Ontario, honorary doctorates from Université UCL (Belgium) and the Law Society of Ontario, le Prix Christine Tourigny (Barreau du Québec) and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
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The deadline to register is the Wednesday of the talk at 8:00am. The Zoom link will be sent to registrants only on the morning of the event.