Winner of the 2023-2024 IRLRC Essay Competiton
Congratulations!
The winner in the Graduate Category is Clara Laplante-B茅dard, lawyer and Ph.D. candidate in law at the University of Ottawa, for her essay entitled: Les principes de d茅termination de la peine sous la Loi sur le syst猫me de justice p茅nale pour les adolescents : Une int茅gration des rationalit茅s de droits de l鈥檈nfant? (Sentencing Principles under the Youth Criminal Justice Act: Integrating Child Rights Rationalities?)
Clara is involved with the Saint-Michel Legal Clinic, where she actively contributes to the work of the Committee Against Racial Profiling and serves as an ambassador for the UN Human Rights Observatory. Her doctoral research focuses on the overrepresentation of racialized youth in Quebec鈥檚 youth criminal justice system. She is particularly interested in issues of systemic racism and racial profiling within this system, examined through the lens of children's rights.
The winning submission will be published by the in the coming weeks.
The competition is open to students from university members of the , i.e.: St. Thomas University, McGill University, University of Manitoba, Universit茅 Laval, UQAM, University of Saskatchewan, University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, Carleton University, McMaster University, Concordia University, York University and University of Ottawa.
