Léa Lemay Langlois joined Dionne Schulze as an articling student in January 2019. She was sworn in to the Quebec Bar in July of the same year and now practices as a lawyer with the firm. She is involved in files concerning special claims, compensation for past abuses, and community governance.

Prior to joining the Dionne Schulze team, Léa Lemay Langlois worked with human rights organisations in Guatemala. As a volunteer legal advisor for Lawyers Without Borders Canada, she contributed to the litigation of cases related to transitional justice and gender.

Léa Lemay Langlois wrote her LL.M. thesis on Canada’s international obligations regarding the disappearances of Indigenous women. During her studies at UQAM, she assisted Prof. Bernard Duhaime in his work for the United Nations Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances. She was also involved with the International Clinic for the Defense of Human Rights and she held different positions for the Quebec Journal of International Law. In addition, she worked as a summary writer for Éditions Yvon Blais as well as in a community organisation for housing rights.

• Award for achievements in the Gender Issues and International Law course, University of Notre Dame (2017)
• Nominations to the Dean’s Honor Roll for the Fall and Spring semesters, University of Notre Dame (2016 and 2017)
• Fulbright Foreign Student Scholarship (2016-2017)
• John Peters Humphrey Fellowship, Canadian Council on International Law (2016-2017)
• Award for achievements in the course Droits et libertés de la personne, UQAM (2015)
• Award for achievements in the course Introduction à l’étude du droit et à la méthodologie juridique, UQAM (2014)
• Awards for best finalist team; second best litigant; and third best memorial at the Charles-Rousseau Moot Court Competition in International Law, UQAM (Clermont-Ferrand, 2012)

• “Indigenous Class Actions“, workshop presented as part of the course LAWG 552 Law Focus Week Workshop, Faculty of Law, McGill University, 2024
• “Towards a trauma-informed professional practice”, presentation given with Sarah-Maude Belleville-Chénard at the “Recent developments in Aboriginal law” conference organized by the Quebec Bar, November 2022

• “Constitutional Remedies for Indigenous People Living in Canada”, presentation at the seminar Using the Charter to Create Change: Contemporary Issues in Canadian Constitutional Remedies at McGill University Faculty of Law, November 2021

• “El derecho de los pueblos indígenas a luchar contra la corrupción”, presentation at a virtual conference organised by Estudios para la dignidad and COPINH, March 2021

• “Las normas, estándares y obligaciones internacionales relativas a las reparaciones transformadoras”, presentation at a conference organised by Lawyers Without Borders Canada and Mujeres Transformando el Mundo, Guatemala, March 2018

• “Remedies for Indigenous Women Victims of Human Trafficking in Canada”, presentation at a conference organised by the American Society of International Law and the Quebec Society of International Law, Washington D.C., April 2017

• “Gender Perspective in UN Framework for Peace Processes and Transitional Justice: The Need for a Clearer and More Inclusive Notion of Gender” (2018) 12:1 International Journal of Transitional Justice, also published in Spanish in Yesid Reyes Alvarado, dir., ¿Ideología o perspectiva de género en la justicia transicional?, Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2019

• « La traite des femmes dans le contexte des grands évènements sportifs : Quel plan de match ? » (2017) 29:1 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 83 (with the collaboration of Kristine Plouffe-Malette)

• Book review of The American Convention on Human Rights: Crucial Rights and Their Theory and Practice de Cecilia Medina (2014) 27:1 Quebec Journal of International Law 315

• « Chronique de jurisprudence de droit international public devant les tribunaux québécois », (2014) 27:1 Quebec Journal of International Law 215 (avec Vanessa Tanguay)

• « Chronique de jurisprudence de droit international privé devant les tribunaux québécois », 27:1 Quebec Journal of International Law 249 (with the collaboration of Vanessa Tanguay and Édith Vézina)

• Book review of Le CIRDI 45 ans après. Bilan d’un système de Ferhat Horchani (dir.) (2011) 24:2 Quebec Journal of International Law 247 (with the collaboration of Johannie Dallaire and Vanessa Tanguay)