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Without Precedent: The Supreme Life of Rosalie Abella

  • 2023
  • 1h 20m
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Without Precedent: The Supreme Life of Rosalie Abella (2023)
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An account of the life and career of Rosalie Abella, a former member of the Supreme Court of Canada, who immigrated to Canada as a child after her parents survived the Holocaust.An account of the life and career of Rosalie Abella, a former member of the Supreme Court of Canada, who immigrated to Canada as a child after her parents survived the Holocaust.An account of the life and career of Rosalie Abella, a former member of the Supreme Court of Canada, who immigrated to Canada as a child after her parents survived the Holocaust.

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    • Barry Avrich
  • Writer
    • Barry Avrich
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    • Rosalie Abella
    • Margaret Atwood
    • Joe Clark
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    • Director
      • Barry Avrich
    • Writer
      • Barry Avrich
    • Stars
      • Rosalie Abella
      • Margaret Atwood
      • Joe Clark
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    Rosalie Abella
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    Margaret Atwood
    Margaret Atwood
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    Joe Clark
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    Bernie Farber
    Bernie Farber
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    Adam Gopnik
    Adam Gopnik
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    Andromache Karakatsanis
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    Martha Minow
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    Brian Mulroney
    Brian Mulroney
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      • Barry Avrich
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    A funny way of understanding why we need to put humanity in our interpretation of law

    This is the best documentary I have seen in a long time...so well realized ...funny & quick tempo only added to the pleasure of meeting the supreme justice Rosalie Abella ...we see her whimsical side to must naturally compensate, balance her legal side ..

    We meet people that work with her, live with her, that have got to know her a little ...but mostly we meet her ... Has she talk about she seen legal profession...lawyers & judges are there to put the human into the law...but humanity ..making the law evolve as society does ...sometimes forcing this evolution ... By bringing justice to discrimination ...she was one of the source in 1984 of the expression Systemic discrimination.

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      • March 15, 2024 (United States)
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      • Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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