Dr. Stephanie Chipeur

Biography

Stephanie holds the Azrieli Accelerator Professorship in Law & Disability Policy. She is an Assistant Professor cross-appointed between the Faculty of Law and the School of Public Policy. In 2021, she worked with the Disability Policy Research Program at the School of Public Policy, under the leadership of Dr. Jennifer Zwicker. As a post-doctoral scholar, Stephanie was a recipient of the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation’s Charlie Fischer Fellowship, which focused on advancing patient and family-oriented research. This fellowship supported her work on the inequities present in childhood disability law and policy in Canada, particularly regarding children who are disabled due to injury compared to those born with disabilities, especially neurodevelopmental conditions. Stephanie completed her JD at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law and is a member of the Law Society of Ontario. She further earned her LLM and DCL from McGill University's Faculty of Law. In 2014, Stephanie became a wheelchair user after a car accident, which has provided her with lived experience that informs her research in disability law and policy.

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