Feminist Legal Studies Queen's - Fall Term 2024 Lectures

Monday, September 23, 2024
1-2:20 pm

Hybrid Event
In Person: Law Building, Room 202,
Register Here for both In-Person & Zoom

Shelley D. McIntyre | Senior Counsel, Office of the Children's Lawyer

Topic: Women and the law in Ontario, from quiet rebels to advocates for systemic change - a perspective from a 2000 call working in government in Children's Law

Abstract:
forthcoming

Bio:
Shelley attended Osgoode Hall Law School, completing the Intensive in poverty law at Parkdale Community Legal Services, and was called to the Bar in 2000. She worked briefly at the Public Guardian and Trustee, Ministry of the Attorney General Ontario, in the litigation department.  She currently practices exclusively in the area of family law, representing children with the Office of the Children’s Lawyer as in-house counsel in parenting-time, child protection, adoption, and secure treatment matters.   She is the Regional Supervisor to thirty legal agents of the Office of the Children’s Lawyer in the West and Central West regions.  Shelley is involved in the Cross Over Youth (COY) initiative within the office.  She is the Co-Chair of the Articling Committee.

Shelley has also worked as an Assistant Crown Attorney with the Downtown Toronto Crown’s office and was on the Domestic Violence team from 2017-2019.  Shelley has volunteered with Big Sisters of Toronto, Adopt-A-School MAG, LSO as a tutor, the Child Protection Limbo Task Force, and has been a member of The Rotary Club of Toronto. She has served as the Chair, and Member of the Board, for Willowdale Community Legal Services, was a Member-at-large for the Child and Youth Section of the Ontario Bar Association and was on the Board of Directors for Justice for Children & Youth legal clinic.
 

Background readings:
Mossman, M. J. Quiet Rebels : A History of Ontario Women Lawyers; Wilfrid Laurier University Press: Waterloo, Ontario, 2024, pp 391-442 and pp 443-457: https://ocul-qu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_QU/r9dor2/alma9952864701905158