Clara Feliciati

DPhil Law

Clara Chapdelaine Feliciati is currently pursuing a DPhil on international girl child rights under the supervision of Professor Jonathan Herring. She holds bachelors of civil law and common law (B.C.L./LL.B. McGill University) and an LL.M. in Human Rights (King’s College London). She also studied International and European law at the University Paris II Panthéon-Assas. Clara is a qualified Barrister and Solicitor with the Law Society of Upper Canada and a member of the International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law.

Clara directed the Canadian Child Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation Research Project at the International Bureau for Children’s Rights, which led to the Strategic Action Plan for the Protection of Victims of Child Trafficking (2007). She served as Child Rights Project Officer at the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre within the Implementation of International Standards unit. She was Law Clerk at the Quebec Youth Tribunal and articled at the International Criminal Court within the Prosecution division of the Office of the Prosecutor. Clara worked directly with children during internships at the Paris Youth Tribunal and the Dans la Rue organization serving street youth in Montreal. She published articles on youth justice, the semiotics of law, international child rights, the girl child, and co-authored the UN Handbook on the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (2009).