Rosalie Abella: Putting Law Back in the Service of Humanity

February 12, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Mānoa Campus, William S Richardson School of Law, Classroom 2

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Justice Abella is known for her pathbreaking decisions to enforce civil rights in Canada and for her lectures and writings on employment equity, disability, racial and gender justice, and First Nations rights. Awarded 42 honorary degrees, she is an elected member of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. After her parents survived Nazi concentration camps, Abella was born in a displaced persons camp in Germany in 1946; her family was allowed to enter Canada in 1950. After practicing both civil and criminal law in Ontario, Abella was appointed to the Ontario Family Court at age 29—the youngest and the first pregnant judge in Canadian history. She went on to be the first refugee and the first Jewish woman ever appointed to the Canadian Supreme Court in 2004. Her extensive and innovative work on judicial independence, human rights, and democracy is particularly pertinent today.

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Event Sponsor
Mānoa Campus

More Information
Robert Perkinson, (808) 351-8976, btss@hawaii.edu

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Wednesday, February 12
12:00pm	Law School Information Session at UH Hilo Hilo Campus, Room TBD (see event link below)
5:30pm	Law School Information Session in Waimea Mānoa Campus, Thelma Parker Memorial Public and School Library, 67-1209 Mamalahoa Hwy, Kamuela, HI 96743
6:30pm	Rosalie Abella: Putting Law Back in the Service of Humanity Mānoa Campus, William S Richardson School of Law, Classroom 2