Sophia Reibetanz Moreau, J.D. (Toronto) 2002; Ph.D. (Harvard) 2000; B.Phil. (Oxford) 1996; B.A. (Toronto) 1994 is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law. She is cross-appointed to the Department of Philosophy.
Professor Moreau served as law clerk to Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin of the Supreme Court of Canada in 2002-2003. She has also been a Frank Knox Memorial Fellow at Harvard University, where she wrote a doctoral dissertation in the Department of Philosophy on practical deliberation, the nature of autonomy and the significance of character; and a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Oxford, where she completed a B.Phil. in legal and political philosophy.
Professor Moreau's current legal research focuses on equality rights and anti-discrimination law in the public and private sectors. She has published in Philosophy and Public Affairs, Ethics, Utilitas, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, the University of Toronto Law Journal, and a number of other law journals in Canada. Her work on s.15 of the Charter also appears in the anthology Making Equality Rights Real: Securing Substantive Equality Under the Charter; and in 2005, she was commissioned to write a report for the federal government on grounds of discrimination and gender identity, entitled "What Makes a Ground of Discrimination?". Professor Moreau is currently working on a book on equality rights, "The Many Faces of Equality", for which she has received a SSHRC grant.
