Joanne St.Lewis
Assistant Professor
57 Louis Pasteur St.
Ottawa,
Ontario
Canada
K1N 6N5
Joanne.StLewis@uottawa.ca
(613) 562-5800 Ext. 5794
(613) 562-5124
B.A. (McGill), LL.B. (B.C.) of the Law Society of Upper Canada, Assistant Professor
Ms. Joanne St. Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Common Law Section. She currently teaches civil liberties, social justice, comparative South African and Canadian constitutional law and first year legislation. She has also taught courses in critical race theory, history of legal thought and criminal justice administration. She was the co-chair of the Canadian Bar Association Working Group on Racial Equality and author of Virtual Justice: Systemic Racism and the Canadian Legal Profession.
A bilingual lawyer, she has extensive experience in the equality rights area. She is currently a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada. She conducts research and consults with government, corporations and community organizations in the area of equality rights with a particular emphasis on legal culture, critical race theory and feminist legal theory. She also conducts training on anti-racist decision-making and practice with judges, other members of the administration of justice, private sector management and the human services sector.
Professor St. Lewis was the founding Director of the Education Equity Programme of the Law Faculty at the University of Ottawa. She has held positions with the Ontario Human Rights Commission and the Ontario Race Relations Directorate. She was also the Executive Director of the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF). From 1985-87, she was Special Assistant Government Affairs to the Grand Chief of the Crees of Quebec and was involved in the negotiations of the 1986 La Grande Agreement.