Advisory Council Members
CLAIHR’s Advisory Council Members are:
Yude Henteleff
Kathleen E. Mahoney
Professor William A. Schabas
Joanne St. Lewis
John Terry
Yude Henteleff is a founding partner of Pitblado Barristers & Solicitors in Winnipeg and a respected human rights practioner around the world. Among many other accomplishments, he has lent his expertise at the 2001 UN Conference on Racism on behalf of the Canadian Human Rights Commission and to the Canadian Executive Service Organization in Kyrgyzstan where he delivered workshops to non-governmental organizations on human rights issues. Yude has also been appointed to the Order of Canada for his contribution to human rights in Canada.
Katherine E. Mahoney has been a Professor of Law at The University of Calgary for 18 years. She has law degrees from The University of British Columbia, Cambridge University and a Diploma from The Institute of Comparative Human Rights Law in Strasbourg. She has held many international lectureships and fellowships including the Sir Allan Sewell Visiting Fellowship at the Faculty of Law, Griffiths University, Brisbane, the Distinguished Visiting Scholar Fellowship at The University of Adelaide and Visiting Fellowships at The Australian National University, Canberra and The University of Western Australia in Perth. She was a Visiting Professor at The University of Chicago 1994, and was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School in 1998. Professor Mahoney has published extensively on human rights, constitutional law and women’s rights, as well as on judicial education and the social context. She lectures nationally and internationally, and has successfully appeared as counsel in the Supreme Court of Canada in a number of cases, most notably in the two leading Canadian cases for the legal regulation of hate propaganda and pornography. She has organized and participates in a variety of collaborative human rights projects in Canada, Geneva, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, Israel, China and the United Nations. She regularly attends the Council of Europe as an Independent Expert and North American representative. From July 1993–95, she was counsel and advocate on a team of international lawyers representing Bosnia and Herzegovina in the International Court of Justice, focusing particularly on the issue of systematic rape as a crime of genocide. She is the 1997 recipient of the Law Society of Alberta and Canadian Bar Association Distinguished Service Award for Legal Scholarship and the Soroptomist Club of Canada Woman of Distinction Award. In 1997, she was elected to the Royal Society of Canada for her academic achievements, one of Canada’s highest academic honours, and in 1998 was selected as a Fulbright Scholar to pursue her comparative human rights work at Harvard University. In 1998 she was appointed by the Foreign Affairs Minister to Chair the Board of Directors of the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, in Montreal. In 2000, the Canadian Bar Association presented her with the Bertha Wilson Touchstone Award in recognition of her outstanding accomplishments in the promotion of equality.
Joanne St. Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Common Law Section. She was the Co-chair of the Canadian Bar Association’s 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 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.
Professor William A. Schabas is director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights. A specialist in the areas of international criminal accountability for human rights violations and the abolition of capital punishment, over the course of 2001-2003, Professor Schabas lectured in many countries all over the world. In 2001-2002, Professor Schabas represented Ireland as delegate to sessions of a Council of Europe expert group negotiating a declaration on the legal status of non-governmental organisations. He was nominated in 2001 by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, to serve as a part-time member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Sierra Leone and was sworn in by President Abdul Tejan Kabbah of Sierra Leone on 5 July 2002. After two years of work, the Commission submitted its final report to the government of Sierra Leone. The LL.M. courses taught by Professor Schabas include Abolition of Capital Punishment and International Criminal Law & the Protection of Human Rights. In addition, Professor Schabas lectures along with other faculty members in the Introduction to Human Rights Law course. Professor Schabas formerly taught human rights law and criminal law at the Département des sciences juridiques of the Université du Québec à Montréal, a Department he chaired from 1994-1998. He also taught as a visiting or adjunct professor at McGill University, Université de Montréal, Université de Montpellier, Université de Paris X-Nanterre, Université de Paris II-Pantheon Assas, University of Rwanda, Dalhousie University, the International Institute for Human Rights (Strasbourg), the Canadian Foreign Service Institute and the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre. He is a member of the Quebec Bar, and was a member of the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal from 1996 to 2000. Professor Schabas was a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington during the academic year 1998-99. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Toronto and LL.B., LL.M. and LL.D. degrees from the University of Montreal. In 1998, Professor Schabas was awarded the Bora Laskin Research Fellowship in Human Rights by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Professor Schabas has published several works. His recent publications include Introduction to the International Criminal Court, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press), The Abolition of the Death Penalty in International Law, 3rd ed. (Cambridge University Press) and Slobodan Milosevic on Trial (Continuum Publishers, with co-author Professor Michael Scharf). He has also published more than 125 articles in academic journals and he is editor-in-chief of Criminal Law Forum, the quarterly journal of the Society for the Reform of Criminal Law.
John Terry bio not presently available