Belleville-Chenard

514-842-0748

Year of Call: Quebec Bar, 2016

Sarah-Maude Belleville-Chénard joined Dionne Schulze in June 2017 as a lawyer. She acts primarily in environmental and territorial governance matters, as well as in civil and administrative litigation, particularly in matters of historical abuse. In this context, she places great emphasis on continuously improving the quality of services provided to our clients.

Before joining the firm, Sarah-Maude oversaw the UNESCO World Heritage application for Anticosti Island. She completed her Quebec Bar articling in Haiti with Lawyers Without Borders Canada, where she worked on a case before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

Sarah-Maude has completed a Master’s degree in law on intersectionality and discriminatory colonial laws against Indigenous women in Canada.

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Education

  • LL.M., Université de Montréal, 2015
  • LL.B., Université de Montréal, 2012

Publications and papers

  • “Indigenous Class Actions“, workshop presented as part of the course LAWG 552 Law Focus Week Workshop, Faculty of Law, McGill University, 2024
  • “Towards a trauma-informed professional practice”, presentation given with Sarah-Maude Belleville-Chénard at the “Recent developments in Aboriginal law” conference organized by the Quebec Bar, November 2022