CURRICULUM VITAE
Nathalie DES ROSIERS O.C., O.O., F.R.S.C., L.S.M.
EXPERIENCE:
Principal, Massey College (2019 - …)
MPP, Ottawa-Vanier (2016 – 2019) Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry, (Jan 2018 – June 2018) Parliamentary Assistant – Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs (2017-2018) Parliamentary Assistant – Minister of Energy (2017 -2018) Parliamentary Assistant – Minister of Women’s Issues (2016 – 2017) Parliamentary Assistant – Minister of Housing (2016 – 2017)
Dean, Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, 2013 – 2016
General Counsel, Canadian Civil Liberties Association, 2009 – 2013
Vice-President – Governance, University of Ottawa, 2008-2009
Dean, Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section, 2004- 2008
President, Law Commission of Canada, 2000-2004 (Vice-President 1997 -2000)
Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario, 1987-2001 Full Professor, 2000 Associate, 1993
Lerner & Associates, 1984-1987
Supreme Court of Canada – Law Clerk to Justice J. Chouinard, 1982-1983
Ogilvy, Renaud (now Norton Rose Fulbright), 1981-1982
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
Expert – Ministère de la justice, Programme de réforme judiciaire, Mali (2006) (CIDA funded project) Expert - PIAP, Comité des affaires sociales de l’Assemblée nationale du Vietnam – Loi sur l’égalité entre les sexes, Gender Equality Act (2006) Expert – Bengladesh – Law Reform Commissions (funded by Department of Justice – Canada, 2003) Nathalie DES ROSIERS
PART-TIME OR VOLUNTEER CONTRIBUTIONS:
Elections Web Commentator CTV News (2019)
Member of Rhodes Scholars Selection Committee – Ontario (2015- 2017)
Member of the Board, National Judicial Institute, (2014 – 2016)
Member of the Board of Governors, Law Commission of Ontario, (2009 – 2013)
President – Canadian Federation of Social Sciences and Humanities (2008 – 2009)
Association Universitaire de la Francophonie (Committee on Program Evaluation) (2008-2009)
Member of the Advisory Council to the Ombudsman for the Armed Forces (2005-2007)
Advisory Committee – Department of Justice (2005)
President- Canadian Council of Law Deans (2005 - 2007)
Commissioner, Law Reform Commission of Ontario, 1993-1996
Small Claims Judge, 1990-2000
Membre de la Commission d’enquête sur les agissements du juge Jean Bienvenue dans le cadre du procès R. c. Théberge (1999) – Advisory Committee into judicial conduct pursuant to the Judges Act
Adjudicator – Grandview Agreement (1998-99) – Responsible for awarding compensation to victims of abuse (sexual, physical and psychological) in a detention facility (Interviewed more than 75 applicants)
Board Member, «The Sexual Assault Centre of London», 1997-2000
Mediator for the establishment of a Centre scolaire et communautaire francophone with the Catholic School Board, the Public School Board, the Catholic Parish and a Community Centre. (1999-2000)
President – Canadian Association of Law Professors (1996)
President – Association des juristes d’expression française (AJEFO) (1995)
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Adjudicator – Member - Ontario Environmental Board (1997 -2000)
DISTINCTIONS
- Merit Award Muslim Association of Kitchener- Waterloo (2017)
- Avocate Émérite (Barreau du Québec, 2015)
- Prix du Mérite Christine Tourigny (Barreau du Québec, 2015)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2014)
- Walter Owen Prize for Best Legal Book (2014) (Canadian Bar Association)
- Canadian Civil Liberties Association – Award of Merit – Advocacy (2014)
- Lexis Nexis Women of Influence Award (2013)
- Order of Canada (2013)
- Solidarity Award (NUPGE) (2013)
- Prix Bastarache – Charron (2012)
- Doctorate Honoris Causa, (UCL, Belgium) (2012)
- Order of Ontario (2012);
- One of Canada’s Twenty-Five Most Influential Lawyers (Canadian Lawyers) (2012 and 2011)
- One of Canada’s ten “Nation Builders” (2010), (Globe & Mail)
- University Medal - Université Paris X (2007)
- Doctorate Honoris Causa, Law Society of Upper Canada (2004)
- Personnality of the year – Éducation (Le Droit/Radio-Canada) (2004)
- Prize for Partnerships (Association of Professional Executives APEX) (2004)
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- Order of Merit - Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Ontario (2000)
- Medal of the Law Society of Upper Canada (1999) (LSM)
- Frank Knox Memorial Scholar 1984
EDUCATION
- Admitted to the Law Society of Upper Canada / Barreau du Haut-Canada, 1987; - Common Law Equivalency – University of Toronto, 1985 - LL.M., Harvard University, 1984 - Admitted to the Barreau du Québec, 1982; - LL.B., Université de Montréal, 1981;
GRADUATE SUPERVISION and Evaluation of Programs
Supervision: 4 Ph.D., (two on-going), 3 Master
Evaluation : 6 Ph.D., 4 Master
Evaluation of Academic Programs: Faculties of Law - University of Victoria (2005), Université de Sherbrooke (2004), Université de Montréal (2010); Department of Criminology (2016) Simon Fraser University.
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