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Biography - Professor Shauna Van Praagh

Shauna Van Praagh is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at McGill University and McGill's Institute of Comparative Law. She teaches Extracontractual Obligations/Torts, Children and the Law, Foundations of Canadian Law, Feminist Legal Theory and Social Diversity and Law. Professor Van Praagh's principal research and writing intersect family law, human rights and legal theory, by focusing on issues related to the children of religious communities. She teaches in the integrated McGill programme which introduces first year students to the law of Obligations in both the Common law and Civil law traditions of Canada.

Professor Van Praagh holds a Bachelor of Science degree (1986) from University College of the University of Toronto. Her law studies were also completed at the University of Toronto where she graduated with a Bachelor of Laws, with Honours, in 1989. In addition, she holds a Master of Laws degree (1992) and a Doctor of the Science of Law degree (2000) from Columbia University in New York City. In 1989/1990, Professor Van Praagh worked as a law clerk to the Right Honourable Brian Dickson, Chief Justice of Canada, in his last year as a member of the Supreme Court of Canada.