About the Contributors / Quelques mots sur nos collaboratrices
- About the Contributors / Quelques mots sur nos collaboratrices
Jane Bailey is a full professor in the Faculty of Law (Common Law Section) at the University of Ottawa, who teaches cyberfeminism, technoprudence, contracts, and civil procedure. She was the co-principal investigator with Valerie Steeves on the eGirls Project, which was funded by a three-year Partnership Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Jane and Val co-edited eGirls, eCitizens (uOttawa Press, 2015). They are also now co-leading a new seven-year partnership funded by the SSHRC, entitled the eQuality Project. This project will focus on the relationship between online behavioural targeting and harassment and discrimination of young people online.
Gwen Brodsky is a leading national and international expert on human rights law. She has extensive experience arguing constitutional equality rights cases before tribunals and courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada. She has also appeared before human rights commissions and treaty bodies at the United Nations and throughout North and South America. For over a decade, her work has focused on the inter-connections between equality rights, social and economic rights, and Aboriginal rights and on the means of fulfilling them in constitutional and human rights contexts. She represented the Native Women’s Association of Canada on the issue of the murders and disappearances of Aboriginal women and girls before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. She is counsel to the petitioners in McIvor v Canada, an ongoing challenge to sex discrimination against Aboriginal women and their descendants in the Indian Act. Brodsky has written extensively about equality rights theory, social and economic rights, the Charter, the duty to accommodate, and access to justice problems experienced by members of disadvantaged groups. She has taught at the University of British Columbia, the University of Victoria, and in the Akitsiraq Law Program in Iqaluit. In 2013–14, she was a distinguished visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia.
Sarah Buhler is an assistant professor in the College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan. She teaches and researches in the areas of access to justice, clinical legal education, and legal ethics.
Amy Conroy recently completed her doctorate in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa. She is a part-time professor at Carleton University. She has co-authored several papers in the area of privacy law with her doctoral supervisor, Teresa Scassa. Her doctoral dissertation, entitled “E-racing the Genetic Family Tree: A Critical Race Analysis of the Impact of Familial DNA Searching on Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples,” argues against using familial searching in Canada’s national DNA data bank based on the discriminatory impact this would have on Aboriginal peoples in Canada. [End Page 463]
Nathalie Des Rosiers is dean of the Faculty of Law (Common Law Section) at the University of Ottawa. She has served as the General Counsel for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) from 2009 to 2013. Prior to her appointment to the CCLA, Des Rosiers was interim vice-president of governance for the University of Ottawa (2008–09), dean of the Civil Law Section at the University of Ottawa (2004–08), and president of the Law Commission of Canada (2000–04). She has been in private practice in Montreal and London, Ontario, and was professor of law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario for many years. She has received the Order of Canada in 2013, the Order of Ontario in 2012, an Honourary Doctorate from the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium in 2012, an Honourary Doctorate from the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Medal from the Law Society of Upper Canada, the NUPGE Award, the APEX Partnership Award, and was named one of Canada’s twenty-five most influential lawyers in both 2011 and 2012.
The Honourable Stephen T. Goudge was assistant counsel to the commissioner during the Berger Inquiry. He went on to serve on the Court of Appeal for Ontario from 1996 to 2014. Prior to his appointment to the Court of Appeal, Justice Goudge was a managing partner at Gowling, Strathy and Henderson (now Gowling WLG), a lecturer on labour law and Indigenous rights at the...
