Knight Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit / en Justice Rosalie Abella receives national honour from Germany   /celebrates/justice-rosalie-abella-receives-national-honour-germany <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Justice Rosalie Abella receives national honour from Germany&nbsp;&nbsp;</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/community" hreflang="en">Community</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2020-07-24T11:57:10-04:00" title="Friday, July 24, 2020 - 11:57" class="datetime">Fri, 07/24/2020 - 11:57</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/alumni" hreflang="en">Alumni</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/alumni" hreflang="en">Alumni</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-law" hreflang="en">Faculty of Law</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/knight-commander-s-cross-order-merit" hreflang="en">Knight Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/UofT72903_JusticeRosalieAbella023.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="Rosalie Abella"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Supreme Court Justice&nbsp;<strong>Rosalie Silberman Abella</strong>, a champion&nbsp;of human rights and social justice,&nbsp;has been honoured with Germany’s Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit (with badge and star), one of&nbsp;the country’s top national decorations.</p> <p>Abella, whose parents survived the Holocaust, was born in a Displaced Persons camp in&nbsp;Stuttgart, Germany in 1946. She came to Canada as a refugee in 1950.</p> <p>She graduated from the University of Toronto in 1967 and received her law degree from U of T’s Faculty of Law 1970. She practised civil and criminal law before her judicial appointment to the Family Court at the age of 29. She was named to the Ontario Court of Appeal in 1992 and was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2004.</p> <p>Germany honoured Abella for the lessons she has from drawn from the Holocaust about the need to protect minority rights and the rule of law.</p> <p>In 2019, Abella was presented with <a href="/news/justice-rosalie-abella-receives-u-t-alumni-award-unwavering-commitment-human-rights-and">U of T's Rose Wolfe Distinguished Alumni Award</a>.</p> <h3><a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-germany-honours-canadian-supreme-court-justice/">Read the&nbsp;<em>Globe and Mail</em> story<em>&nbsp;</em></a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Fri, 24 Jul 2020 15:57:10 +0000 lanthierj 165393 at