Call for Proposals: Hon. Claire L'Heureux-Dubé Fund for Social Justice

The University of Ottawa, in collaboration with the Hon. Claire L'Heureux-Dubé Fund for Social Justice has called for groups of young women under 30 to submit proposals with respect to the organization of a 3-day event about "Young Women, Feminism and the Future", to be held in 2008. The Fund offers a maximum of $40,000 to the selected project.

The deadline for application is May 31, 2007.

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You can learn more about the life and legal career of the Hon. Claire L'Heureux-Dubé here, and here.

For those who are not familiar with her work on the Bench (yep! the "capital-B" bench!), here are a few cases where she kicked ass:

• R. v. Ewanchuk, [1999] 1 S.C.R. 330;
• Symes v. Canada, [1993] 4 S.C.R. 695;
• R. v. Esau, [1997] 2 S.C.R. 777;
• Canada (Attorney General) v. Mossop, [1993] 1 S.C.R. 554;
• R. v. Starr, [2000] 2 S.C.R. 144.