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Part-time professor
Faculty of Law, Common Law Section
Common Law

Contact information:

Office: 6137477800
Cell: 6132206362
Home: 6134406623
E-mail: mark.hecht@uottawa.ca
Website

Preferred method of contact:

Cell Telephone

Research information:

Mark Erik Hecht is a lawyer, academic and human rights advocate as well as the co-founder of Beyond Borders ECPAT Canada. He is currently legal advisor to the Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa and the senior legal counsel to Beyond Borders ECPAT Canada. Prior to his recent appointments, he was a visiting professor at the University of Ottawa and an assistant professor and the access to justice chair at the University of Windsor. Mr. Hecht’s primary research interest is international child law, specifically the role and involvement of the private sector in the commercial sexual exploitation of children.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Child rights
• Corporate social responsibility
• Family law
• Human rights
• International law
• War crimes

Language preference:

English and French

Part-time professor
Faculty of Law, Common Law Section
Common Law

Contact information:

Office: 6136682416
Cell: 6136682416
E-mail: kkehoe@uottawa.ca

Preferred method s of contact:

E-mail, Cell Telephone

Research information:

My fields of research include child protection, the judiciary and judicial education, miscarriages of justice including wrongful convictions, and self-represented litigants. I practiced child protection for eight years, wrote a text for the judiciary on child protection in Ontario, and acted as a policy analyst for the Motherisk Commission which examined miscarriages of justice in child protection cases resulting from unreliable hair testing for drugs and alcohol at Sick Kids. I worked for the National Judicial Institute for almost ten years, designing educational programs and resources on gender-based violence, the Charter, Evidence, Preventing Wrongful Convictions, self-represented litigants, and other topics. I am currently working with the National Self-Represented Litigants Project.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Child rights
• Courts
• Family law

Language preference:

English only

Vice-Dean, Research
Associate professor
Faculty of Law
Civil Law

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (3253)
E-mail: mpare@uOttawa.ca
Website

Preferred method s of contact:

E-mail, Office Telephone

Research information:

International human rights law, child rights, disability rights, education law

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Child rights
• Disability law
• Education Law
• Human rights
• International human rights law
• International law

Language preference:

English and French , Finnish