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Canadian judge and academic (born 1963)

Mary Ellen Elizabeth Turpel-Lafond (born February 1963) is a Canadian lawyer and law professor.

She has served as a judge and as a legislative advocate for children's rights.

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Turpel-Lafond has been a legal and constitutional adviser to aboriginal leaders, including to Ovide Mercredi, National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, during the negotiations over the Charlottetown Accord. She worked on land claims with the Indian Law Resource Center in Washington, DC. She has taught at Dalhousie University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Notre Dame, and has served as a judge on the Provincial Court of Saskatchewan.

Time magazine named Turpel-Lafond as one of the "100 Global Leaders of Tomorrow" i Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond removed from Order of Canada GYWE