Nicole LaViolette
Vice Dean French Program & Associate Professor
57 Louis Pasteur St., Room 378
Ottawa,
Ontario
Canada
K1N 6N5
Nicole.LaViolette@uOttawa.ca
(613) 562-5800, ext. 3305
(613) 562-5124
Nicole LaViolette
B.A. (Honours)(Carleton), LL.B. (
Nicole LaViolette teaches public international law. international humanitarian law, conflicts of laws and family law. Her research and publications are devoted mainly to international human rights, international humanitarian law, and the rights of refugees. She is also interested in lesbian and gay legal issues, international feminist theory and transnational family law.
She is co-editor with Craig Forcese of The Human Rights of Anti-Terrorism (Irwin Law, 2008), a collection of papers discussing the Ottawa Principles on Anti-Terrorism . She is also co-editor with Mélanie Claude and Richard Poulin of Prostitution et traire des êtres humains, enjeux nationaux et internationaux (Les Éditions L'Interligne, Ottawa, 2008) to which she contributed a chapter on the Inter-American legal response to the trafficking of women and children.
Prior to joining the faculty, Prof. LaViolette worked as a legislative assistant in the House of Commons and collaborated with both governmental and non-governmental organizations specializing in human rights. She is a graduate of the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law and Carleton University. She was a law clerk to Justice Alice Desjardins at the Federal Court of Appeal of Canada before completing a graduate degree at Cambridge University.