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Colleen Sheppard

Professeure titulaire & vice-doyenne aux études supérieures

Titulaire de la Chaire F.R. Scott en droit constitutionnel

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Colleen Sheppard

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Biographie

Colleen Sheppard est professeure titulaire et vice-doyenne aux études supérieures à la Faculté de droit de l'Université McGill. Elle a été directrice du Centre sur les droits et la personne et le pluralisme juridique de McGill entre 2010 et 2015. Elle enseigne et publie principalement dans les domaines du droit constitutionnel canadien et comparé, des droits à l’égalité, des droits humains et de la théorie féministe du droit. Elle a fait ses études en droit à l’Université de Toronto et à l’École de droit de l’Université Harvard. Elle a été auxilliaire juridique auprès du juge en chef Dickson de la Cour suprême du Canada, et elle a également enseigné à la Dalhousie University Law School, à l’University of Maine School of Law et à l’Institut de droit comparé à l’Université Lyon III.

La professeure Sheppard est Ă©galement active sur le plan de l'intĂ©rĂŞt public. De 1991 Ă  1996, elle a siĂ©gĂ© Ă  la Commission des droits de la personne du QuĂ©bec. Elle a aussi travaillĂ© comme consultante pour le Ministère fĂ©dĂ©ral de la justice, l’Institut national de la magistrature, la Commission de vĂ©ritĂ© et rĂ©conciliation du Canada, la Commission canadienne des droits de la personne, l’Association des MĂ©tis autochtones de l'Ontario et l’Organisation internationale du Travail. Elle a siĂ©gĂ© sur le conseil d’administration Ă  Equitas – Centre international d’éducation aux droits humains entre 2006 et 2012. La professeure Sheppard est membre du barreau du Haut-Canada. Elle a Ă©tĂ© nommĂ©e titulaire de la Chaire F.R. Scott en droit constitutionnel pour sept ans, Ă  compter du 1er septembre 2023.ĚýĚý

La professeure Sheppard a été élue membre de la Société royale du Canada, au sein de l'Académie des sciences sociales, en septembre 2016.

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  • LLM (Harvard) 1985
  • LLB (Toronto) 1984
  • BA (Toronto) 1980

Parcours professionnel

  • Directrice, Centre sur les droits et la personne et le pluralisme juridique, FacultĂ© de droit, UniversitĂ© McGill, 2010-2015
  • Directrice de la recherche, Centre sur les droits et la personne et le pluralisme juridique, UniversitĂ© McGill, 2005-2010
  • Professeure titulaire, FacultĂ© de droit, UniversitĂ© McGill, 2006-prĂ©sent
  • Professeure agrĂ©gĂ©e, FacultĂ© de droit, UniversitĂ© McGill, 1993-2006
  • Commissaire, Commission des droits de la personne du QuĂ©bec, 1991-96
  • Professeure adjointe, FacultĂ© de droit, UniversitĂ© McGill, 1988-93
  • Professeure invitĂ©e, Dalhousie University et University of Maine, 1986-88
  • Auxilliaire juridique pour le juge en chef Brian Dickson, Cour suprĂŞme Court du Canada, 1985-86
  • Chercheure sur les occasions d'emploi et l'action positive, ministère du Travail de l'Ontario, Bureau de la main-d'oeuvre fĂ©minine, 1980-81

Champs d'intérêt

Droit constitutionnel, droits de la personne (spécifiquement droits à l'égalité), théorie féministe du droit, droit socio-économiques, antidiscrimination au travail.

Publications

Livres

Jordan’s Principle: Reconciliation and the First Nations Child (2019) Constitutional Forum / Forum constitutionnel v27 n1 (20190315): 3-12. .

Human Rights and Diverse Societies: Challenges and Possibilities (co-edited with Francois Crépeau) (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013);

Dialogues on Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (co-edited with René Provost) (Springer Press, 2013);

Inclusive Equality: The Relational Dimensions Of Systemic Discrimination In Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010). .

Articles

Substantive Equality and Jordan’s Principle: Challenges and Complexities.Ěý Journal of Law and Social Policy 35. (2021): 21-43. (co-authors: Vandna Sinha, Kathryn Chadwick; Maya Gunnarsson, & Gabriella Jamieson). .Ěý

Contester la discrimination au QuĂ©bec:Ěý Le projet de loi 21 et les limites constitutionnelles aux dĂ©rogations des droits de la personne » Fondations canadienne des relations raciales, novembre 2019 (co-auteurs : Rebecca Jones & Nathaniel Reilly). .Ěý

Contester la discrimination systémique au Canada: Droit et changement organisationnel (2018) 14 La Revue des droits de l’homme 1. .

Obstacles to Crossing the Discrimination Threshold: Connecting Individual Exclusion to Group-Based Inequalities (2018) 96 (1) Canadian Bar Review 1 (with Mary Louise Chabot). .

Jordan’s Principle: Reconciliation and the First Nations Child (2018) 26(4) Constitutional Forum 3. .

’Bread and Roses’: Economic Justice and Constitutional Rights (2015) 5 (1) Onati Socio-legal Series 225.

Institutional Inequality and the Dynamics of Courage (2013) 31(2) Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 103. .

Inclusion, Voice and Process-based Constitutionalism (2013) Osgoode Hall L.J. 547. .

Mapping anti-discrimination law onto inequality at work: Expanding the meaning of equality in international labour law
Sheppard, C. (2012) 151 International Labour Review 1-19.

Reducing Group-based Inequality in a Legally Plural World
Sheppard, C. (2010), Working Paper, CRISE (Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity), Oxford University; published online, February 2010. .

Diversity, Dialogue and the Role of the State: Articulating the Values of Democratic Constitutionalism
Sheppard, C. Ěý(2008) 2 Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law (Part 1) 99.

Pragmatic Feminism in the Work of Bertha Wilson
Sheppard, C. (2008), 41 Supreme Court L.R. (2d) 83; also published in Jamie Cameron ed. Reflections on the Legacy of Justice Bertha Wilson (Toronto: Lexis-Nexis, 2008-2009) 83-101.

Constitutional Recognition of Diversity in Canada
Sheppard, C. (2006), 30 Vermont Law Review 463.

Inclusive Equality and New Forms of Social Governance
Sheppard, C. (2004), 24 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 1.

Intimacy, Rights and the Parent-Child Relationship: Rethinking Freedom of Association in Canada
Sheppard, C. (2004) 16 N.J.C.L. 101.

Narratives, Law and the Relational Context: Exploring Stories of Violence in Young Women’s Lives
Sheppard, C. and S. Westphal. (2000) 15 Wisconsin Women’s Law Journal 335.

Women as Wives: Immigration Law and Domestic Violence
Sheppard, C. (2000) 26 Queen’s Law Journal 1.

Equality Rights and Institutional Change: Insights from Canada and the United States
Sheppard, C. (1998) 15 Arizona Journal of International & Comparative Law 143.

Systemic Inequality and Workplace Culture: Challenging the Institutionalization of Sexual Harassment
Sheppard, C. (1995) 3 Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal 249.

Uncomfortable Victories and Unanswered Questions: Lessons from Moge v. Moge
Sheppard, C. (1995) 12 Canadian Journal of Family Law 283.

Equity and the University: Learning from Women's Experience
Sheppard, C. and S. Westphal (1992) 5 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 5.

AIDS and Disability Employment Discrimination in and beyond the Classroom
Sheppard, C. and D.J. Jones (1989) 12 Dalhousie L. J. 103.

Chapitres de livres

#MeToo Canada: Towards a Culture of Equality, in Ann Noel & David Oppenheimer, eds., The Global #MeToo Movement: How Social Media Propelled a Historic Movement and the Law Responded (Washington, DC: Full Court Press, 2020) 37-45. Ěý

Anti-Discrimination law in Canada and the Challenge of Effective Enforcement, in Marie Mercat-Bruns, David Oppenheimer & Cady Sartorious, eds., Enforcement and Effectiveness of Discrimination Law in a Global World (2018, Springer Press)

The Rule of Law as a Non-Discrimination Principle, in Janine Lespérance et al., eds., Canada and the Rule of Law: 150 Years after Confederation / Le Canada et la primauté du droit: 150 ans après la Confédération (Ottawa: International Commission of Jurists, 2017)

Inclusive equality and new approaches to discrimination in transnational labour law in Adelle Blackett & Anne Trebilcock eds., Research Handbook on Transnational Labour Law (Edward Elgar Publishing: 2015) 247-259

Three Ideas for Reimagining Law and Institutions in Richard Janda, Rosalie Jukier and Daniel Jutras (eds.) The Unbounded Level of the Mind – Rod Macdonald’s Legal Imagination (McGill-Queen’s University Press: 2015) 270-272

Systemic Discrimination and Gender Inequality: A Life-cycle Approach to Girls' and Women's Rights
in Errol P. Mendes & Sakunthala Srighanthan, eds. Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2009) 232-243.

Pragmatic Feminism in the Work of Bertha Wilson
in Jamie Cameron ed.ĚýReflections on the Legacy of Justice Bertha Wilson (Toronto: Lexis-Nexis, 2008-2009) 83-101; also published in (2008), 41ĚýSupreme Court L.R. (2d) 83

Individual accommodation versus institutional transformation: two paradigms for Reconciling paid work and family responsibilities
in Les 15 ans du Tribunal des droits de la personne et les 30 ans de la Charte des droits et libertés de la personne (Cowansville: Yvon Blais, 2005) 379-406.

Harcèlement en milieu de travail: Vers une approche systémique
in Droit à l’égalité et discrimination: aspects nouveaux (Cowansville, Québec: Éditions Y. Blais, 2002) 139-154.

Grounds of Discrimination: Towards an Inclusive and Contextual Approach
in Les 25 ans de la Charte québécoise (Yvon Blais, 2000) (also published in (2001) 80 Canadian Bar Review 893)

The Promise and Practice of Protecting Human Rights: Reflections on the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms
in N. Kasirer & R. MacDonald, eds., Mélanges Paul-André Crépeau, (Cowansville: Yvon Blais, 1997) 641-678.

Comptes-rendus de livres

Book Review of Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens & Diane Labrèche, Le contexte social du droit dans le Québec contemporain – L’intelligence culturelle dans la pratique des jurists (Éditions Yvon Blais 2009), (forthcoming, Canadian Journal of Law and Society)

Book Review of Robert J. Sharpe & Patricia I. McMahon, The Persons Case – The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood, (2008) 53 McGill L.J. 367

Book Review of Lucie Lamarche, Perspectives occidentales du droit international des droits économiques de la personne (Editions Bruylant, Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 1995) (1996) 41 McGill L.J. 907

Rapports d'Ă©tude

Colleen Sheppard, The principles of equality and non-discrimination, a comparative law perspective - Canada (Research European Parliament Research Service, November 2020). Ěý

Indigenous Peoples in Canada: Understanding Divergent Conceptions of Reconciliation, Institute for the Study of International Development, ISID Aboriginal Policy Study Paper, No. 4, Ď㽶ĘÓƵ (March 2013). Link.

Indigenous Peoples and Residential Schools: Historical and Continuing Violations of Equality and Non-Discrimination, Internal Working Paper, prepared for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (May 2013)

Multiple Discrimination in the World of Work, Working Paper, International Labour Organization, Global Report on Equality at Work (August 2010). .

Rights, Respect and Dignity: Interface of Labour Standards and Human Rights Legislation. Research Report, prepared for the Federal Labour Standards Task Force (Chair: Harry Arthurs), (November 2005)

Systemic Discrimination and Equality at Work: Canadian Developments
Sheppard, C. Working Paper, Prepared for the Equality at Work: Concepts and Policy Responses in a Changing World, International Labour Organization, Technical Meeting of Country Experts, Geneva (June 2002).

Litigating the Relationship between Equality and Equity, Study Paper, Ontario Law Reform Commission, 1993 (cited by the Supreme Court of Canada in Lovelace v. Ontario, [2000] 1 S.C.R. 950). .

Dans les médias

"Understanding how racism becomes systemic" Globe and Mail, 24 July 2020 (with Tamara Thermitus & Derek Jones). Ěý

“Comprendre la discrimination systémique” (with Kara Sheppard-Jones) Le Devoir, 13 September 2018 (op-ed). .

“Advancing Americans’ right to health” (with Derek Jones), The Globe and Mail, 29 June 2012 (op-ed). .

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