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Colleen Sheppard FRSC is a professor of law at McGill University Faculty of Law. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2016. [1] [2] Sheppard's scholarship focuses on human rights issues and constitutional law. [3] [4]

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  1. "Colleen Sheppard, FRSC". Royal Society of Canada. Archived from the original on September 25, 2020. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
  2. "Colleen Sheppard named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada". McGill University Faculty of Law. September 7, 2016. Archived from the original on December 27, 2017. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
  3. Sheppard, Colleen; Thermitus, Tamara; Jones, Derek (July 24, 2020). "Opinion: Understanding how racism becomes systemic". The Globe and Mail . Archived from the original on July 29, 2020. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
  4. Montpetit, Jonathan (July 8, 2019). "As fight over Quebec's religious symbols law shifts to courts, legal experts debate best way to challenge it". CBC News . Archived from the original on January 19, 2020. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
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