Florence Robert is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Toronto with research interest in Indigenous legal orders, pedagogies and methods. Florence is a 2021 graduate of the LL.L. program at the University of Ottawa where she received the University Gold Medal for Civil Law for the highest cumulative grade point average in the entire civil law program and the Dean of the Civil Law Section’s Prize in recognition significant contributions made to the law school community. In 2022, Florence completed a judicial clerkship at the Federal Court under Justice Martine St-Louis and was called to the Québec bar in 2023. Following her clerkship, Florence completed her Master of Laws (LL.M.) thesis at the University of Toronto on Indigenous legal pedagogy and the decolonization and Indigenization of Canadian legal education under the supervision of Professor John Borrows. Her SJD thesis seeks to document the values, principles, rules, and processes that govern group regulation and conflict resolution related to children, youth, and families within the Ilnu legal order. Her doctoral work is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

Since 2022, Florence is a Part-Time Professor (Long Term Nomination) at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, where she teaches transsystemic courses in constitutional law, property law, family law and Indigenous legal orders.