Director of Legal Expertise to the General Secretariat for the Defender of Rights (formerly HALDE). She holds degrees from McGill University School of Law in Montreal, Canada and from the University of Paris West Nanterre. After practicing litigation in Canada, she joined the first French anti-discrimination body, the GELD, in 2000 and contributed to the creation of the French equality body since 2002. Her particular field of interest is the translation of discrimination litigation in the French legal system. She is a French national expert in the European Expert Network. Sophie Latraverse is interviewed in Class 3, on the topic of proving direct discrimination in France, in Class 4, on anti-discrimination enforcement in France, in Class 5, on statistical proof of indirect discrimination in France, and in Class 6, on sexual harassment in France.
Class 3, Class 4, Class 5, Class 6