Mary Eberts

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MARY EBERTS is a nationally and internationally recognized constitutional lawyer, professor, and advocate of equality and human rights.

Eberts has appeared as counsel to parties and interveners in the Supreme Court of Canada, Courts of Appeal and Superior Courts in Ontario and other provinces, the Federal Court and Court of Appeal, and before administrative tribunals and inquests across Canada.

She was instrumental in securing the present language of section 15 of the Charter, and was one of the founders of the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF). Since 1991, she has been litigation counsel to the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC).

Her academic career includes the Gordon Henderson Chair in Human Rights at the University of Ottawa (2004-2005) and the Ariel Sallows Chair in Human Rights at the College of Law, University of Saskatchewan (2011 and 2012), where she taught courses in test case litigation.

Educated at Western University and Harvard law schools, she has received the Law Society Medal, the Governor-General’s Award in Honour of the Persons’ Case, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and several honorary degrees.

Eberts was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2018 for her contributions to the nation’s intellectual capital.

Sources: https://canadianwomen.org/about-us/our-story/founding-mothers | https://www.law.utoronto.ca/news/mary-eberts-asper-centres-new-constitutional-litigator-in-residence 

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