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Year of call: Quebec Bar, 2018

Marie-Alice D’Aoust joined Dionne Schulze in January 2018 as an articling student and, since August 2018, as a lawyer. She is notably involved in First Nations specific claims, citizenship, and election matters. She also works on civil and administrative litigation, including class actions for institutional abuse and land issues.

During her studies, Marie-Alice D’Aoust worked at the Centre for Research-Action on Race Relations, where she was involved in human rights and Aboriginal rights files at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal and at the Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse.

Marie-Alice D’Aoust was also engaged in activist and human rights organisations abroad, including the Kenyan section of the International Commission of Jurists in Nairobi, the Human Rights Law Network based in New Delhi, and the Landless Workers’ Movement in Brazil.

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Education

  • B.C.L./LL.B., McGill University, Montreal, 2017
  • B.A., International Studies, Hispanic Studies, Music, Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, 2014

Professional and volunteer activities

  • Quebec Bar
  • Association des juristes progressistes, member
  • Réseau des milieux naturels protégés, member of the board of directors (2022-…)

Publications and Conferences

  • “Sexual and Gender-based Violence in International Criminal Law: A Feminist Assessment of the Bemba Case” (2017) 17:1 International Criminal Law Review 208

Selected judgments

Superior Court of Québec

Federal Court