Marie-Eve Sylvestre, University of Ottawa
Law
Professor
Ottawa, Ontario
msylvest@uottawa.ca
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(613) 562-5800 ext. 3237
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Bio/Research
Marie-Eve Sylvestre is an Associate Professor in the Civil Law Section where she teaches criminal law, the law of penalties and legal theory from a critical perspective and multidisciplinary. She was Director of Graduate Studies in Law from June 2010 to June 2012. She holds a law degree from the ...
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Bio/Research
Marie-Eve Sylvestre is an Associate Professor in the Civil Law Section where she teaches criminal law, the law of penalties and legal theory from a critical perspective and multidisciplinary. She was Director of Graduate Studies in Law from June 2010 to June 2012. She holds a law degree from the University of Montreal (LL.B. 1999: Gold Medal of the Faculty) and a master's and a doctorate in law from the Faculty of Law at Harvard University (LL.M. 2002, SJD 2007). Recipient of numerous awards and scholarships including scholarships from the Frank Knox Memorial Foundation and a grant from the Research Council Social Sciences and Humanities, she clerked for Justice Charles Gonthier of the Supreme Court of Canada in 2000-2001.
Her research funded by the Research Council Social Sciences and Humanities, the Bar Foundation and the Law Foundation of Ontario focuses on the criminalization of social conflicts in public spaces (homelessness, prostitution, drug addiction and events) and judicial public spaces. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on the prosecution and the criminalization of homelessness in Canada and has acted as an expert on these matters to the Commission on Human Rights and Youth Rights in Quebec The Barreau du Québec and the Government of Quebec.
In 2011, she won the prize for best legal test awarded by the Association of Law Teachers of Canada for an article on the criminal liability of poor and marginalized people and published in the McGill Law Journal and the price the Fondation du Barreau du Québec for the manuscript of legal article for an article published in the Canadian Journal of Law and Society course on judicial homeless people in Montreal and Ottawa.
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Her research funded by the Research Council Social Sciences and Humanities, the Bar Foundation and the Law Foundation of Ontario focuses on the criminalization of social conflicts in public spaces (homelessness, prostitution, drug addiction and events) and judicial public spaces. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on the prosecution and the criminalization of homelessness in Canada and has acted as an expert on these matters to the Commission on Human Rights and Youth Rights in Quebec The Barreau du Québec and the Government of Quebec.
In 2011, she won the prize for best legal test awarded by the Association of Law Teachers of Canada for an article on the criminal liability of poor and marginalized people and published in the McGill Law Journal and the price the Fondation du Barreau du Québec for the manuscript of legal article for an article published in the Canadian Journal of Law and Society course on judicial homeless people in Montreal and Ottawa.
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