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Pascale Fournier
2003 Trudeau Scholar
pascale.fournier@trudeaufoundation.net
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Vice-Dean Research and Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
"My various trips abroad as a Trudeau Scholar allowed me to hone in on my field of expertise and identify the role I want to play in an academic field that is often far too removed from the local realities of poverty. Thanks to the Foundation's underlying philosophy, I could aspire to take the law closer to the people and make the reality it seeks to establish less grandiose, both in local communities and women's groups in Iran and in university communities seeking to fulfil a peace mission in Costa Rica. I also witnessed and took part in the emergence and unfolding of the Trudeau community from the very beginning: so many researchers - driven by a shared sense of determination which they expressed in the unique and original dialects of their respective disciplines - taking hands to build a dialogue of excellence and social change. These interdisciplinary links not only enriched my vision of the subject of my doctoral thesis but also helped me envision a multi-facetted legal discipline, with malleable and interdependent parts. As a law professor, I try to incorporate this unique approach into my teaching: the knowledge that can be found at the crossroads of different academic disciplines, on the one hand, and learning through a diversity of schools of thought, on the other. The Trudeau Foundation made a profound mark on my intellectual curiosity, a curiosity I like to hope now serves my academic and social community."
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Pascale Fournier is Vice-Dean Research and Associate Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa. She obtained an LL.B from Laval University, an LL.M. from the University of Toronto and an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School. She served as Law Clerk to Madame Justice Claire L'Heureux-Dubé at the Supreme Court of Canada. She teaches and writes on comparative family law, Islam and Judaism in Europe and North America, legal regulation of culture, and the relationship between multiculturalism, religion and gender. She has recently published articles in these areas with The Journal for Comparative Law, the Osgoode Hall Law Journal, the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, Cambridge University Press, Palgrame MacMillan, UBC Press and Les éditions des archives contemporaines. She has also completed public policy reports for the Canadian Council of Muslim Women and the United Nations Development Programme, for which she served in 2008 as an expert consultant on issues of gender and Islamic law. Her current research project examines the migration of two forms of religious divorce in Western secular courts, the Jewish Get and the Islamic Talaq, and investigates the subversive strategies employed by Jewish and Muslim women to navigate between the religious and secular spheres. Professor Fournier currently serves on the Board of Directors for Canada World Youth, la Fondation Paul Gérin-Lajoie and the National Network on Environments and Women's Health. A Trudeau Scholar Alumna (2003), she was awarded in 2008 the Laval University Raymond-Blais Medal for exceptional achievements, and in 2009, she received the Québec Bar Association's Advocatus Emeritus distinction
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