A former law professor at the University of Montreal has died. Who was she?
The retired lawyer Louise Poudrier-LeBel died at the age of 83.
During her law studies at Laval University, Louise Poudrier-LeBel found herself the only woman still enrolled after the third year.
Admitted to the bar in 1966, Louise Poudrier-LeBel worked as a full professor at the Faculty of Law of Laval University from 1972 to 2000. She was director of the undergraduate program, vice-dean of administration and secretary of the faculty, and vice dean for teaching.
She was also a university prosecutor, responsible for ensuring compliance with the university’s disciplinary regulations.
Louise Poudrier-LeBel has published numerous articles and works, among other things on suretyship, sureties and guarantees.
The lawyer was a member of the Quebec Bar Review Committee from 1993 to 2000. She was vice-president of the Quebec Association of Comparative Law from 1995 to 1997.
Louise Poudrier-LeBel was also involved in the beginnings of the Fédération des femmes du Québec. She was active as a volunteer to help immigrant women in Quebec.
She was the wife of the late Louis LeBelwho served as a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada from 2000 to 2015. During this period spent in Ottawa, Louise Poudrier-LeBel became involved in a group of diplomatic women.
A fund in the name of Louis-LeBel and Louise-Poudrier-LeBel was created at Laval University, in order to support research at the faculty of law, in connection with the updating or writing of legal works .
During her retirement, the lawyer became passionate about ikebana, the traditional Japanese art of floral creation.
“I have lost a great colleague and friend. For years we prepared our lessons together and shared our love of law and our love for our children,” writes, on the obituary page, Therese Rousseau-Houlewho in 1985 was the first woman dean of a law faculty in Canada, before being appointed judge of the Superior Court and then judge of the Court of Appeal.
Louise Poudrier-LeBel is survived by her three children and seven grandchildren.
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