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DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 2017 Wallenberg Lecture\, which will be given b
 y the Honourable Rosalie Silberman Abella\, Justice of the Supreme Court o
 f Canada.\n\nAbout the speaker\n\nRosalie Silberman Abella was appointed t
 o the Supreme Court of Canada in 2004 after serving on the Ontario Court o
 f Appeal for 12 years. She practised civil and criminal litigation until s
 he was appointed to the Ontario Family Court in 1976.  She subsequently ch
 aired the Ontario Law Reform Commission and the Ontario Labour Relations B
 oard. Justice Abella was the sole Commissioner and author of the 1984 Roya
 l Commission on Equality in Employment\, creating the term and concept of 
 “employment equity.”\n\nShe was the Boulton Visiting Professor at McGill's
  Faculty of Law from 1988 to1992\, teaching jurisprudence\, administrative
  law\, and constitutional law.  She is a specially elected Fellow of the R
 oyal Society of Canada and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, 
 as well as a graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Music in classical pian
 o.  She was a judge of the Giller Literary Prize\, and has written over 90
  articles and written or co-edited four books on a wide variety of legal t
 opics. She has 37 honourary degrees. Justice Abella is married to Canadian
  historian Irving Abella and they have two sons\, both lawyers. \n\nAbout 
 this annual conference\n\nOrganized by the McGill Centre for Human Rights 
 and Legal Pluralism\, the Wallenberg Lectures honour Raoul Wallenberg\, th
 e Swedish diplomat whose actions saved the lives of thousands of Jews in H
 ungary during the Second World War.\n
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LOCATION:Maxwell Cohen Moot Court (NCDH 100)\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, Q
 C\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Wallenberg Lecture with Supreme Court of Canada Justice Rosalie Abe
 lla
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/channels/event/wallenberg-lecture-suprem
 e-court-canada-justice-rosalie-abella-276797
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