Our Students - Profiles

Genevieve Renard Painter

Year: 1st Year Grad Student - JSP

Education:

B.A. (Hons), International Relations, Wellesley College
London School of Economics and Political Science (visiting student)
B.C.L., LL.B. (distinction), McGill University
International Human Rights Academy, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Member of the Quebec Bar

Concentrations:

Social movements
Human rights discourses

Awards:

Selznick Fellowship, UC Berkeley (2009-2011)
J.W.F. Peacock Award
125th Anniversary National Programme Entrance Scholarship (McGill University)

Academic Experiences:

Research Assistant to Professor Mark Antaki, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal

Papers and Publications

"Towards Feminist Critiques of Reparations", Paper presented at the Second Annual Graduate Student Conference of the Toronto Group for the Study of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law (January 2009)

���Linking Women���s Human Rights and the MDGs: An Agenda for 2005 from the UK Gender and Development Network.��� (2005) Gender and Development, 13:1 79

Employment Experiences:

Executive Director, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, McGill University
Student attorney, Dionne Gertler Schultze, Montreal
Member, Coalition on Women's Human Rights in Conflict Situations
Advocate, Trust Fund for Victims, International Criminal Court
Advocate, Human Rights Watch, Brussels and New York
Advocacy and Policy Manager, WOMANKIND Worldwide, London
Consultant, Gender and Development Network (UK)