Positions held

2024-2025 to today

Student(s), Ethics and health

Biography

Shirin Louy is a doctoral student in cotutelle between the Université de Sherbrooke and the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. After completing a bachelor’s degree in law at the Université de Montréal in 2021, she completed a double master’s degree in research under the co-direction of professors Bertrand Lavoie and Julie Arroyo. Her research interests include fundamental rights, feminism, intersectionality, freedom of religion, secularism and comparative law. Her dissertation focused on “The recent evolution of religious freedom on the rights of veiled women in the workplace in Quebec and France”. In 2023, she obtained a Master’s degree in research and a double Master’s degree in Droits des libertés at the Université Grenobles Alpes in France. She is currently pursuing a thesis under the supervision of Professors Bertrand Lavoie and Claude Proeschel. Shirin Louy is working on conscientious objection in medical law in Quebec and France, on the subject of voluntary interruption of pregnancy. The aim of this research is to conduct semi-structured interviews with doctors to better understand the points of tension between the rights of patients and caregivers.