Will people learn to be more tolerant in the 21st century than we are now? That’s the question the current chief justice of Canada’s Supreme Court, Beverley McLachlin, will discuss when she speaks at Vanderbilt Law School April 5 at 3:30 p.m. in Flynn Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.
McLachlin was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1989 and became chief justice in 2000. She is the first woman to hold that position. She also serves as chairperson of the Canadian Judicial Council, which is composed of all chief justices and associate chief justices of superior courts in Canada.
Before becoming a judge, McLachlin was a law professor at the University of British Columbia Law School and she practiced law in Alberta and British Columbia.
McLachlin was invited as part of the Jonathan I. Charney Distinguished Lecture in International Law. The event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Americas at Vanderbilt.
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