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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Biography Biographies |
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Named Person: | Claire L'Heureux-Dubé; Claire L'Heureux-Dubé |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Constance Backhouse |
ISBN: | 9780774836340 0774836342 9780774836357 0774836350 9780774836364 0774836369 |
OCLC Number: | 1005842845 |
Notes: | Includes index. |
Awards: | Winner of CLSA Book Prize, Canadian Law and Society Association 2018 (Canada) Short-listed for City of Ottawa Book Award 2018 (Canada) Short-listed for Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences 2019 (Canada) |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Introduction -- 1 Ewanchuk -- Family Heritage and Childhood -- 2 Lineage -- 3 Early Years -- 4 Growing Up in Rimouski -- Early Education -- 5 Life as a Pensionnaire with the Ursulines, 1937â#x80;#x93;43 -- 6 CollÃg̈e Notre-Dame-de-Bellevue -- A Legal Education -- 7 The Decision to Go to Law School, 1946â#x80;#x93;48 -- 8 Laval Law School Student Body, 1948â#x80;#x93;52 -- 9 Laval Law School Faculty and Curriculum, 1948â#x80;#x93;52 -- 10 Life Outside of Law School, 1949â#x80;#x93;52 -- Law Practice -- 11 Entry 12 Sam Bard13 Business Law Practice -- 14 Marriage and Children -- 15 Family Law -- 16 Practising as a Woman -- Quebec Superior Court -- 17 New Career Directions -- 18 First Months on the Bench, February to October 1973 -- 19 Immigration Commission of Inquiry, October 1973 to January 1976 -- 20 Quebec Superior Court, 1976â#x80;#x93;79 -- 21 Family Tragedy -- Quebec Court of Appeal -- 22 Appointment to the Quebec Court of Appeal, 1979 -- 23 Appellate Judging, 1979â#x80;#x93;87 -- 24 More Family Traumas -- Supreme Court of Canada 25 Appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada, 198726 Early Days on the Supreme Court of Canada -- 27 Continuing Isolation on the Supreme Court -- 28 Fifteen Years of Jurisprudence, 1987â#x80;#x93;2002 -- Selected Cases -- 29 Sexual Assault -- 30 Family Law and Spousal Support -- 31 Human Rights for Same-Sex Couples -- 32 Tax Law and Sex Discrimination -- 33 More Deaths, 1987â#x80;#x93;94 -- 34 The Quebec Secession Reference -- 35 Fairness in Immigration Law -- 36 Epilogue on Ewanchuk -- A Wider Stage -- 37 Judicial Education and International Influence 38 RetirementConclusion -- Notes -- Illustration Credits |
Series Title: | Law and society series. |
Responsibility: | Constance Backhouse. |
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Abstract:
Going beyond jurisprudential legacy to provide rich sociocultural context, Claire L'Heureux-Dube is an exploration of the controversial and historically transformative career of the first Quebec woman on Canada's Supreme Court.
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[Claire L'HeureuxDube: A Life] is an exceptional contribution to Canadian legal literature. Backhouse completely immersed herself in her subject by taking extensive French immersion studies, learning about the Quebec civil law system, and conducting close to 200 interviews over a ten-year period ... the result is a meticulously researched but very readable biography of a leading figure in Quebec and Canadian law. -- David Cameletti, Barrister and Solicitor * Canadian Law Library Review * Read more...
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- Women judges -- Canada -- Biography.
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- LAW -- Civil Procedure.
- LAW -- Legal Services.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch.
- Canada. -- Supreme Court.
- Judges.
- Women judges.
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