Sexual Assault and Civil Liability
Nathalie Des Rosiers has been General Counsel of Canadian Civil Liberties Association since July 1, 2009. Recipient of the Order of Ontario in January this year, she was previously Dean of the Faculty of Law - Civil Law Section of the University of Ottawa from 2004 to 2008 and President of the Law Commission of Canada from 2000 to 2004.
She obtained an LL.B. from Universit茅 de Montr茅al and an LL.M. from Harvard University, and received an honorary doctorate from the Law Society of Upper Canada in 2004. She is a member of the Qu茅bec Bar and of the Law Society of Upper Canada. She is Full Professor at University of Ottawa and was a member of the University of Western Ontario's Faculty of Law. She served as law clerk to Supreme Court of Canada Justice Julien Chouinard and worked in private practice.
She was named one of Canada's 25 most influential lawyers in 2011 by the Canadian Lawyers Magazine; One of Canada's 10 Nation Builders in 2010 by the Globe & Mail; she received the M茅daille de l'Universit茅 Paris X in 2007; the Association of Professional Executives of the Public Service of Canada (APEX) Partnership Award in 2004; the Medal of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1999; and the Order of Merit from AJEFO in 2000.
Nathalie Des Rosiers is the past President of the Canadian Federation of Social Sciences and Humanities, of the Canadian Council of Law Deans, of the Association des juristes d'expression fran莽aise de l'Ontario (AJEFO), and the Canadian Association of Law Teachers. She was also a member of the Ontario Environmental Appeal Board and a member of the Ontario Law Reform Commission.
Presented by the Annie Macdonald Langstaff Workshop Series, co-hosted by the Hans and Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in International Law, the 9I制作厂免费 Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, and the Student-Initiated Seminar on Sexual Assault Law.