Deanne Sowter
Assistant Professor Lincoln Alexander School of Law Toronto, Ontario deanne.sowter@torontomu.ca
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Deanne Sowter will join the Lincoln Alexander School of Law as an Assistant Professor on July 1, 2025. Professor Sowter’s research focuses on family law, gender-based violence, feminist legal theory, and legal ethics. She is interested in the family justice system, including the lawyers’ role, an...
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Deanne Sowter will join the Lincoln Alexander School of Law as an Assistant Professor on July 1, 2025. Professor Sowter’s research focuses on family law, gender-based violence, feminist legal theory, and legal ethics. She is interested in the family justice system, including the lawyers’ role, and exploring the limitations of the applicable legal principles to examine the ways that law and the professional rules governing lawyers could be more responsive to gender-based violence.
Professor Sowter’s research has been generously supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council through a Vanier Scholarship, Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral, and a Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master’s. She has also held several prestigious fellowships and scholarships, including the OBA Foundation Chief Justice of Ontario Fellowship in Legal Ethics and Professionalism Studies. Professor Sowter has published eleven peer-reviewed papers on the topics of family law, family violence, and legal ethics, and her work has been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada.
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Professor Sowter’s research has been generously supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council through a Vanier Scholarship, Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral, and a Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master’s. She has also held several prestigious fellowships and scholarships, including the OBA Foundation Chief Justice of Ontario Fellowship in Legal Ethics and Professionalism Studies. Professor Sowter has published eleven peer-reviewed papers on the topics of family law, family violence, and legal ethics, and her work has been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada.
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