Léa Lemay Langlois

Lawyer

514-842-0748 ext. 223

Year of call: Quebec Bar, 2019

Léa Lemay Langlois joined the Dionne Schulze team in January 2019, first as an articling student and then as a lawyer. She works on various types of cases, including class action litigation related to historical institutional abuse and systemic discrimination. She also represents individuals in the claims process for such class actions as well as in individual proceedings. Léa is also involved in cases concerning specific claims and land management under the Indian Act, both in litigation and negotiation. She is particularly familiar with trauma-informed legal approaches.

Extended Bio

Before joining Dionne Schulze, Léa worked with survivors in multicultural and transitional justice contexts, notably as a volunteer legal advisor for Lawyers Without Borders Canada, supporting human rights organizations in Guatemala. Léa wrote her master’s thesis on Canada’s international obligations regarding the disappearances of Indigenous women in Canada.

  • LL.M. in International Human Rights Law, University of Notre Dame, 2017
  • LL.B., Université du Québec à Montréal, 2015
  • B.A. in International Relations and International Law, Université du Québec à Montréal, 2013

  • “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
  • « Le Système interaméricain de protection des droits humains : contributions et défis à venir » chapiter in Stéphane Paquin and Kristine Plouffe-Malette, dir., Organisations internationales. Droit et politique de la gouvernance mondiale, Les Presses de la SQDI, 2023 (with Bernard Duhaime)
  • “Constitutional Remedies for Indigenous People Living in Canada”, presentation at the seminar Using the Charter to Create Change: Contemporary Issues in Canadian Constitutional Remedies at McGill University Faculty of Law, November 2021
  • “El derecho de los pueblos indígenas a luchar contra la corrupción”, presentation at a virtual conference organised by Estudios para la dignidad and COPINH, March 2021
  • “Las normas, estándares y obligaciones internacionales relativas a las reparaciones transformadoras”, presentation at a conference organised by Lawyers Without Borders Canada and Mujeres Transformando el Mundo, Guatemala, March 2018
  • “Remedies for Indigenous Women Victims of Human Trafficking in Canada”, presentation at a conference organised by the American Society of International Law and the Quebec Society of International Law, Washington D.C., April 2017
  • “Gender Perspective in UN Framework for Peace Processes and Transitional Justice: The Need for a Clearer and More Inclusive Notion of Gender” (2018) 12:1 International Journal of Transitional Justice, also published in Spanish in Yesid Reyes Alvarado, dir., ¿Ideología o perspectiva de género en la justicia transicional?, Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2019
  • “La traite des femmes dans le contexte des grands évènements sportifs : Quel plan de match ?” (2017) 29:1 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 83 (with the collaboration of Kristine Plouffe-Malette)