Cérémonie de collation des grades de la Faculté de droit

Bravo à nos finissants au DCL, LLM et BCL/LLB!

Cette année, l'allocution sera prononcée par Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, qui recevra un doctorat honorifique en droit.

La professeure Allison Christians, qui détient la chaire Stikeman en droit fiscal, recevra le Prix d'excellence en enseignement Durnford de l'AED.

Michèle Lamarre-Leroux prononcera le discours d'adieu de sa promotion.

La conférencière

(En anglais seulement) One of Canada’s most distinguished jurists of aboriginal descent, Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond is British Columbia’s first Representative for Children and Youth, an independent office of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, with a mandate to advocate for children and youth and protect their rights. She is currently on leave from the Provincial Court of Saskatchewan, where she was appointed in 1998, at the age of 35, the first Treaty Indian to be named to the bench in that province. As an aboriginal rights lawyer, she worked on land claims with the Indian Law Resource Center in Washington D.C. and served as a key legal and constitutional advisor to aboriginal leaders. A graduate of Carleton University, York University and Cambridge University, Judge Turpel-Lafond also holds a doctorate from Harvard Law School.