Catherine Dunmore receives U of T Law alumni award

The University of Toronto Faculty of Law Alumni Awards biennially recognize the exceptional contributions of valued community members.

The Ann Wilson and Robert Prichard Alumni Award for Community and Professional Service honours recent graduates who demonstrate the highest standards of professional integrity, excellence and leadership, and who has made a significant contribution to the legal profession and community.

Past recipients include the former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Arif Virani (LLB 1998); Cornell Wright (JD/MBA 2000), President of Wittington Investments; and Atrisha Lewis (JD 2012), Partner at McCarthys and a recognized advocate for diversity within the legal profession.

Catherine Dunmore (LLM 2017) is a Solicitor of England & Wales, fluent in English and French, specialising in the fields of international criminal law, human rights, rule of law and gender.

Catherine currently serves as a Senior Expert to the EuroMed Justice Programme. She is also a Gender, Conflict & Stability Expert with the UK Government’s Stabilisation Unit (Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative). Catherine volunteers as a Trustee of Peacebuilding UK, and as an OSCE/ODIHR election observer.

Previously, she was a Human Rights Officer / Gender Adviser to the Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen and a Technical Specialist on Judicial Affairs and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence for the United Nations in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, where she previously worked as a Consultant. She was a Programme Lawyer for the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute and a Humanitarian Sexual and Gender-based Violence Advisor for Save the Children. Catherine also has experience working for the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, Human Rights Watch, REDRESS, the T.M.C. Asser Instituut and the Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice and has worked on death penalty cases through Amicus in Florida. Catherine completed her training contract at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London, including a secondment to Oxfam’s legal team, and subsequently practised in international arbitration with Hogan Lovells in Paris.

Catherine received a Master of Laws with a Collaborative Program in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Toronto in 2017, and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Essex.

The U of T Law alumni awardees will be recognized during U of T Alumni Reunion on May 29, 2025. Alumni and colleagues are welcome to attend, and to join us in congratulating the 2024 recipients.

For nomination details or more information, please contact alumni.law@utoronto.ca.