Biographie Arbour Louise
En 1967, Louise Arbour a obtenu un baccalauréat ès arts de l’Université de Montréal.
En 1970, licence en droit de l’Université de Montréal.
En 1971, elle a été admise au Barreau du Québec.
En 1972, elle a terminé ses études supérieures à la faculté de droit (droit civil) de l'Université de Ottawa.
En 1971-1972, elle a été clerc du juge Louis-Philippe Pigeon de la Cour suprême du Canada.
En 1977, elle a été admise au Barreau de l'Ontario.
De 1974 à 1987, le juge Arbour a occupé les postes de professeur agrégé et de vice-doyen de la Osgoode Hall Law School où elle a enseigné.
Elle exerce la fonction de vice-présidente de l'Association canadienne des libertés civiles. À titre de membre du Conseil canadien de la documentation juridique elle offre ses services au Centre de référence de la documentation juridique de langue française en matière de common law. Elle a écrit plusieurs articles et documents et agit à titre de commentatrice pour le Québec des Rapports judiciaires. Le juge Arbour fait également partie des comités de rédaction du Osgoode Hall Law Journal et de la Revue générale de droit de l'Université d'Ottawa.
En 1987, Louise Arbour avocate et professeure de droit à Toronto, a été nommée juge à la Cour suprême de l'Ontario et membre de la Haute Cour de justice. Elle remplace le juge J. Holland qui a choisi de devenir juge surnuméraire.
En 1990, elle devient juge à la Cour d’appel de l’Ontario.
En 1995, elle est nommée présidente de la Commission d’enquête sur les atteintes aux droits de certaines détenues de la prison pour femmes de Kingston.
En 1996, elle devient procureure en chef du tribunal pénal international de la Haye. Elle a enquêté sur le génocide au Rwanda. Elle a inculpé Slobodan Milosevic, président de Yougoslavie, de crime contre l’humanité suite à l’envahissement du Kosovo par les Serbes en vue d’une épuration ethnique: faire sortir les Albanais du Kosovo par intimidation et viol, expulsion ou meurtre.
En 1999, à 52 ans, elle est nommée juge à la Cour suprême du Canada.
En 2004, à 57 ans, elle remonte en selle contre tous les bourreaux du monde à titre de haut-commissaire aux droits de l’homme des Nations Unies. Elle succède ainsi au brésilien Sergio Vieira de Mello, victime d'un attentat en Irak contre les quartiers généraux de l'ONU à Bagdad. L'explosion d'une bombe avait fait une vingtaine d'autres victimes.
A TRIBUTE TO LOUISE ARBOUR
Professor John M. Evans, acting Dean during the fall term 1987, gave this tribute to Professor Louise Arbour on the occasion of her appointment to the High Court of Justice, the Supreme Court of Ontario, 1987.
It is never easy to say goodbye to a colleague who has meant so much to this Law School and to so many people who have passed through it. Louise Arbour has a significant and unique place in the institutional history of Osgoode Hall Law School. Louise, when Dean Harry Arthurs engineered your appointment to the Faculty in 1975 you were the first women to be appointed to the tenure-stream faculty at this Law School. As such, you have been an invaluable role model to women students and you have provided constructive support and encouragement for female colleagues.
You were also the first, and so far only, francophone from Quebec to be appointed to our full-time faculty, although in the last 12 years we have had several visiting professors from your native Province. You have been an important part of our claim to be the most truly national Law School in Canada.
On a more personal level, you have provided for many of your colleagues, especially those of us who were newcomers to Canada, an invaluable window to the politics and culture of Quebec. You were a wonderful interpreter of the constitutional and political excitement and turmoil that emanated from Quebec, especially during the mid to late 1970s.
You have also been a very important teacher al this School, Louise, particularly in the areas of Criminal Law and Procedure, and the Law of Evidence. You have consistently received stratospheric student evaluations, and have joined that very small and select group of teachers whose courses students cannot be assured of getting into even if they give them their A priority. This is the ultimate accolade of student satisfaction! Your book on Criminal Procedure set a new standard for teaching materials in this subject, and it will be widely regretted, I know, that you will probably not be preparing a post-Charter edition.
Louise, you have also been very important here as a colleague. Over the years, you have either chaired or served on all the major committees through which so much of the institutional life of the Law School is run. At one time or another you have been a member of the Admissions Committee, the Academic Policy Committee, the Academic Standing Committee, and the Recruitment Committee, at least whenever I have served on any of these Committees with you, you have always made a very positive contribution. I was very pleased indeed when you agreed to serve as Associate Dean for the academic year 1988 - 89, not only did you discharge with efficiency consideration and compassion all the paper work and pastoral aspects of the job, but you also were for me a wonderful source of wisdom wit and strength.
This dry catalogue of your contributions to Osgoode cannot reveal the real measure of your importance as a colleague. There are two other things about you that may give you a clear indication of what you have meant to us. First, you have been at your very best in testing times, you have never been found wanting. All I want to say is you have been magnificent. When labour disputes at York, both this year and in the past, have imposed serious strains on relations among our colleagues, and with our students, it has been in your home that we have met and devised, with a fair measure of success, the means of more or less satisfying conflicting demands and loyalties. Your common sense, imagination, competence and openness were always very important elements in the glue that held us together as some kind of collectivity.
Lastly, but most importantly, Louise, I want you to know that you occupy a very important place in the affections of your students and your colleagues. I know that I shall miss, perhaps more than anything else, your sheer joie de vivre and flair. Your commitment to and enthusiasm for the enterprise of legal education and scholarship, and your genius for communicating the joys and satisfactions of your professional life have made Osgoode a better place in which to teach, write and lean. We shall miss you all the more for knowing that the best would have been still to come.
But we should not lose sight of the fact that this is also a happy occasion. We take great pride and pleasure in your appointment to the Bench, and I know that you will make an outstanding contribution to the administration of justice in this Province.
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