Conference Speakers
Larry Chartrand
Director Aboriginal Governance Program, University of Winnipeg
Larry Chartrand is the Director of the Aboriginal Governance Program and is a professor with the Department of Politics at the University of Winnipeg. His research interests are in a wide range of fields including youth criminal justice, Metis rights, FASD, Aboriginal governance and politics, residential schools, medical liability, Aboriginal health and ethics, international human rights, and Aboriginal Constitutional law. He obtained his B. Ed. from the University of Alberta in 1986, his LL.B from York University in 1989, was called to the Bar of Upper Canada in 1990 and obtained his LL.M from Queen’s University in 2001. Formally, Larry Chartrand was a professor with the Faculty of Law for 10 years at the University of Ottawa where he taught Aboriginal law and Torts. He continues to be affiliated as a scientist with the Institute of Population Health and is a member of the school of Graduate and Post-Graduate studies at the University of Ottawa. He is currently Co-chair of the Institute of Aboriginal Peoples Health Ethics Committee.