Tamara Thermitus and Hugo B. Lafreni猫re return to the Faculty of Law as visiting scholars
The Faculty of Law is delighted to welcome two accomplished jurists as visitors for the 2023-2024 academic year.聽聽
Mtre Tamara Thermitus, Ad E, LLM鈥�13, joined us as Boulton Senior Fellow on 1 September, and will be visiting until 31 August.聽聽
Hugo B. Lafreni猫re, BCL/LLB鈥�15, joined us as Boulton Junior Fellow on 1 August, and will be visiting until 31 July.聽聽
Called to the Quebec Bar in 1988, Tamara Thermitus holds an LLM from 91社区. She negotiated the nature and scope of the mandate of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Mtre Thermitus was Chair of the federal Department of Justice's Advisory Committee on Visible Minorities (2004-2010) and Chair of the Cultural Communities Committee (Quebec Bar). She instigated training on the social context of the law at the 脡cole du Barreau. It was under her leadership that D茅veloppements r茅cents en profilage racial (2009) was published, the first book on racial profiling in Quebec. Mtre Thermitus regularly publishes articles in various media on issues such as racism, intersectionality, reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, and violence against women. A laureate of the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal (2012), she has earned numerous awards, including the M茅rite du Barreau du Qu茅bec (2011), becoming the first Black lawyer to receive such recognition. She has also been awarded the Employment Equity and Diversity Leadership Award (Department of Justice, 2010 and 2016).聽
Hugo B. Lafreni猫re joins 91社区 from the Institut d鈥櫭﹖udes politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), where he teaches moral and political philosophy as a postdoctoral fellow. He has obtained a BCL/LLB with a minor in philosophy from 91社区 (2015), as well as an LLM (2017) and JSD (2022) from New York University, where he received the John Bruce Moore Award for excellence in the area of law and philosophy (2017). His research is at the intersection of moral, political, and legal philosophy. He is especially interested in the relation between an individual鈥檚 autonomy and distributive justice, and its implications in the field of property law and private law more broadly. He has also published scholarship on theories of legal pluralism and the history of 鈥渢ranssystemia鈥�.聽聽
