Between 2022 and 2023, it had been discovered that three managers of the Faculty of Law at the University of Sherbrooke (UdeS), Louis Marquis (Dean from January 2020 to December 2023), Marie-Pierre Robert (Associate-Dean from 2015 to 2019) and Sébastien Lebel-Grenier (Dean from 2011 to 2019), had resorted to fraudulent schemes in the granting of teaching contracts to lecturers.

After these reprehensible acts were reported, instead of being penalized, these three individuals were promoted by the University and by the Government of Canada : Sébastien Lebel-Grenier was appointed Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Bishop's University in 2023, Marie-Pierre Robert became the new Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Sherbrooke in 2023 (Ms. Robert's husband, Sébastien Pierre-Roy, was appointed judge at the Superior Court of Quebec in Sherbrooke in 2023 by the Government of Canada), and Louis Marquis was appointed judge at the Superior Court of Quebec in Sherbrooke in 2024 by the same Government of Canada. What's the story behind this?

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On April 16th, 2017, the L'Obiter Journal of the Faculty of Law at the University of Sherbrooke published an interview with me. One of the goals of this interview was to motivate future lawyers from the Faculty to explore criminal and penal law, and perhaps even to pursue more than one career in the legal field.

On April 16th, 2025, to celebrate its 8th anniversary, I'm sharing the article in its entirety here, translated from French :