Nathalie Des Rosiers
Full Professor
57 Louis Pasteur,
Ottawa,
Ontario
Canada
M5S 1X1
ndesrosiers@ccla.org
416-363-0321, poste 227
416-861-1291
Nathalie Des Rosiers is currently General Counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. Previously, she was uOttawa Vice-President for Governance from December 2008 till July 2009. She was Dean of the Civil Law Section from 2004 to 2008 and president of the Federation of Social Sciences and Humanties from 2008 to 2009. She is past president of the Law Commission of Canada (2000-2004).
From 1987 to 2000, Ms. Des Rosiers was a Faculty member at the Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario.
She clerked for Justice Julien Chouinard at the Supreme Court of Canada (1982-1983) and carried on private practice until 1987.
Ms. Des Rosiers is a Past President of the Association des juristes d'expression française de l'Ontario (AJEFO) and of the Canadian Law Teachers Association.
She was a member of the Environmental Appeal Board (1988 to 2000) and a member of the Ontario Law Reform Commission (1993 to 1996).
She received the medal of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1999, the Order of Merit from the AJEFO in 2000, an honorary Degree from the Law Scoiety of Upper Canada (2004) and was “Personnalité de l’année (Education)” Le Droit –Radio-Canada in 2005.
Ms. Des Rosiers obtained an LL.B. from the Université de Montréal in 1981 and an LL.M. from Harvard University in 1984. She became a member of the Barreau du Québec in 1982 and of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1987.
Education
1981 - LL.B. - Université de Montréal
1982 - Québec Bar
1984 - LL.M. - Harvard University
1987 - Law Society of Upper Canada
2004 - LL.D. Honoris Causa, Law Society of Upper Canada
Courses
Initiation to Common Law
Constitutional Law
Research Interest
Law and Mobility
Constitutional Law
Women's Law
Law Reform
Therapeutic Jurisprudence
PUBLICATIONS
Books
with Louise Langevin, L’indemnisation des victimes de violence sexuelle et conjugale, (Les Éditions Yvon Blais, Cowansville, 1998), 350p.
Trad. Representing Victims of Sexual and Spousal Abuse, Irwin Law 2002.
Chapters
“Leadership and Ideas: Law Reform in a Federation” in Brian Opeskin and David Weisbrot, The Promise of Law Reform, (Sydney, Australia, The Federation Press, 2005)
« Être le miroir de son époque - La primauté du droit, la critique égalitaire et la contribution de Madame la juge L’Heureux-Dubé », dans Elizabeth Sheehy, Adding Feminism to Law: The Contributions of Justice Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, (Toronto, Irwin Law, 2004)
“Confidentiality, Human Relationship, and Law Reform”, dans Christine M. Koggel, Allannah Furlong and Charles Levin, Confidential Relationships. Psychoanalytic, Ethical, and Legal Contexts (New-York, Editions Rodpi, 2003),
pp 229 – 247.
« Peut-on apprivoiser le droit vivant? Enjeux de la réforme du droit », dans Nicholas Kasirer et Pierre Noreau, dir., Sources et instruments de justice en droit privé, (Les Éditions Thémis, Montréal 2002), pp. 259-267.
« Le « dialogue » en matière de droits linguistiques – du dit au non-dit », dans Marc Cousineau et Jean-François Méthot, La communauté franco-ontarienne – Un peuple, ses droits et son destin, (Institut franco-ontarien, 2001),
pp. 97 –113.
« La contribution du juge La Forest à la justice civile au féminin», dans Rebecca Johnson and John P. McEvoy, ed., Gérard V., La Forest at the Supreme Court of Canada, 1985 - 1997, (University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law, Fredericton, 2000) pp. 313 - 327.
« L’élaboration d’un modèle administratif favorisant l’indépendance des tribunaux statutaires », dans Institut canadien d’administration de la justice, Justice To Order - Adjustment to Changing Demands and Co-ordination issues in the Justice System in Canada / Justice à la carte - Adaptation aux nouvelles exigences: les questions de coordination dans le système judiciaire canadien, pp. 67 -81. Version anglaise: “Toward an Administrative Model of Independence and Accountability for Statutory Tribunals”, pp. 53 - 67.
« La gérance de l’incertitude en droit constitutionnel: une analyse du discours judiciaire », dans Ejan Mackaay, dir. Les incertitudes du droit/ Uncertainty and the Law, (Les Éditions Thémis, Montréal, 1999), pp. 95 -115.
“Federalism and Judicial Review”, dans M. Westmacott and H. Mellon, Challenges to Canadian Federalism, (Prentice-Hall, Scarborough, 1998)
“The Legal and Constitutional Requirements for Legal Aid”, dans Ontario Legal Aid Review, A Blueprint for Publicly Funded Legal Services, vol. 2, 1997, pp. 503 - 543.
"Report from Canada on Extinctive Prescription" dans Ewoud H. Hondius, dir., Extinctive Prescription on the Limitation of Actions, (1995, Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 1994), reproduit sous le titre Issues in Limitation Periods dans Patrick Glenn, Droit Contemporain, Contempory Law, 1994, (Les Éditions Yvon Blais Inc., Cowansville, Quebec).
"Civil Remedies for Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse in Canada", in The War against Women: The Public Nature of Private Violence (New York, Routledge Publications, 1994) (30 p.)
«L'apport de la doctrine d'action positive comme fondement pour les droits linguistiques des francophones hors Québec » dans L. Cardinal dir., Une langue qui pense: la recherche en milieu minoritaire francophone au Canada (Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa. Actexpress, 1993)
« Les recours de la victime d'inceste » dans P. Legrand, dir., Common law, d'un siècle, l'autre (Yvon Blais, 1992) (50 pp.)
Articles
"Rights Are Not Enough: Therapeutic Jurisprudence Lessons for Law Reformers” (2002) 18 Touro Law Rev. 443 – 458. (dans Symposium: The Varieties of Therapeutic Experience excerpts from the Second International Conference of Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Touro College of Law, NY)
“Du Dialogue au Monologue – Un Commentaire sur l’arrêt R. c. Marshall », (2000) 23 Dalhousie Law Journal 140 -167.
“The Mythical Power of Myth? A Response to Professor Dauer”, (2000) 24 Seattle University Law Review 307 –311
“From Precedent to Prevention - Vicarious Liability for Sexual Abuse”, (2000) 8 Tort Law Review 21 - 27
“Childhood Sexual Abuse and the Civil Courts - A Commentary on Paramasivam v. Flynn (1998)”, (1999) 7 Tort Law Review 201-207
avec Bruce Feldthusen et Olena Hankivsky, “Legal Compensation for Sexual Violence: Therapeutic Consequences for the Judicial System", in (1998) 4 Psychology, Public Policy and Law Journal 433 - 451.
"La responsabilité de la mère pour le préjudice causé par son enfant" in (1995) 36 Les Cahiers de Droit 61.
"Limitation Periods and Civil Remedies for Childhood Sexual Abuse", in (1992) 9 Canadian Family Law Quarterly 43.
“Childhood Sexual Assault - Will There be a Meaningful Civil Remedy? : Gray v. Reeves”, (1992) 10 C.C. L.T. 86
"Childhood Sexual Assault: will there be a meaningful civil remedy? Case comment on Gray v. R." in C.C.L.T. (1992) (21 p.).