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Sophie Thériault is an Interim Dean and Full Professor at the Faculty of Law (Civil Law Section) of the University of Ottawa. She holds a doctorate (LL.D.) from Université Laval (2009), with a Trudeau Foundation scholarship, and earlier degrees from Laval (LL.M. 2004, LL.B. 2000). A member of the Barreau du Québec since 2003, she has served as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies (2015–2017) and Associate Dean of Academic Studies (2019–2023). She clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada (2002–2003) and was a visiting scholar at the University of Washington and University of Victoria.
Her research focuses on Indigenous peoples' rights in natural resource extraction, environmental governance, and food sovereignty. Key awards include the 2012 CALT Best Legal Essay Prize for work on environmental rights in Quebec's Charter. She leads interdisciplinary networks like MinErAL and contributes to the Centre interuniversitaire d'études et de recherches autochtones (CIÉRA) and the Centre du droit de l’environnement.
Publications include co-editing Mining and Indigenous Livelihoods (2024), Applied Legal Pluralism (2022), and Vulnerable: Law, Policy & Ethics of COVID-19 (2020). She has secured SSHRC grants totaling over $4.7M as co-investigator, addressing legal pluralism, environmental justice, and mining impacts. Her work bridges law, policy, and Indigenous sovereignty in postcolonial contexts.
