Marie-Andrée Denis Boileau is doing her Master’s Degree of Laws (LLM) at the University of Ottawa. She is interested in the relationship between psychiatric knowledge and the judiciary knowledge as well as roles and functions attributed to psychiatric experts in the criminal trials. She was the criminal and penal prosecuting attorney in Amos in Abitibi, as well as the Itinerant Court of Nunavik and James Bay. She was also a Radio-Canada reporter in Estrie, Trois-Rivières and Ottawa. In 2014, she co-published with the Professor Suzanne Bouclin from the University of Ottawa an article on the potential and risks of cyberjustice as an access tool to justice for the homeless. Her involvement with the association « Enfant de San Andres – Lima » has led her, in autumn 2007, and in autumn 2013 to organize benefit concerts that helped raise funding for the Association. As a member of the research group «Towards a model of Atikamekw justice», she is mainly responsible for identifying different models of alternative measures programs across Canada and to analyze the implementation of the judgment of the Supreme Court R v Ipeelee, 2012 SCC 13 in Courts of first instance. She is a member of the Quebec Bar.
