Andrée Lajoie (born October 23, 1933) is a Canadian

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and academic living in

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

. She was born in

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and began working as a journalist for ''Vie étudiante'' when she was 15. Lajoie received a bachelor's degree in law from the

Université de Montréal The Université de Montréal (UdeM; ; translates to University of Montreal) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-de ...

and then studied

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at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

while working as a correspondent for

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. In 1961, she moved to

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with her husband, a diplomat at the

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. Lajoie was a law professor from 1968 to 2006 at the Université de Montréal and a member of the (CRDP) there; she also served as director of the CRDP from 1976 to 1980. She is a member of the

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and of the

Royal Society of Canada The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; french: Société royale du Canada, SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bil ...

. She has also been a visiting professor at the universities of

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

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and

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

. She has served on the advisory council for the

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and for the Séguin commission on

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. She also contributed to various commissions including the Castonguay and Rochon commissions on health and social services, the

Macdonald Commission The Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada, also known as the Macdonald Commission, was a historic landmark in Canadian economy policy. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau appointed the Royal Commission in 1982, an ...

and the

Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) was a Canadian royal commission established in 1991 with the aim of investigating the relationship between Indigenous peoples in Canada, the Government of Canada, and Canadian society as a whole. ...

. In 2003, she was awarded the

Prix Léon-Gérin The Prix Léon-Gérin is an award by the Government of Quebec that is part of the Prix du Québec, which "goes to researchers in one of the social sciences". It is named in honour of Léon Gérin. Winners See also * List of social sciences aw ...

. She also received the awarded by the

Canadian Bar Association The Canadian Bar Association (CBA), or Association du barreau canadien (ABC) in Canadian French, French, represents over 37,000 lawyers, judges, notaries, law teachers and law students from across Canada. History The Association's first Annu ...

and the awarded by the

Association francophone pour le savoir Acfas (previously: Association francophone pour le savoir from 2001 to May 2019 and before, Association canadienne-française pour l'avancement des sciences from 1923 to 2001 "ACFAS" or "Acfas") is the principal French-language learned society in ...

Selected publications

* ''Le pouvoir déclaratoire du Parlement; augmentation discrétionnaire de la compétence fédérale au Canada by Andrée Lajoie'', 1969 * ''Expropriation et fédéralisme au Canada by Andrée Lajoie'', 1972

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lajoie, Andree 1933 births Living people Lawyers in Quebec Université de Montréal alumni Academic staff of the Université de Montréal Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Recipients of the Prix Léon-Gérin