4:00pm – 5:30pm
ISEC, Room 102
805 Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA 02120
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The Honorable Rosalie Silberman Abella: Headwinds to Justice.
A conversation about fairness, democracy, and equality with Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella, the first Jewish woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada.
The Honorable Rosalie Silberman Abella was a judge on the Canadian Supreme Court for seventeen years and is currently the Samuel and Judith Pisar Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. Justice Abella was born in a Displaced Person’s Camp in Stuttgart, Germany in 1946 and immigrated to Canada with her family in 1950. She was the first refugee appointed to the bench in Canada. Over decades of legal practice and writing, she became one of Canada’s most celebrated jurists, and among many honors she is a Lifetime Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
For any questions, contact M. Grace Dolan at m.dolan@northeastern.edu.
