Marie-Hélène Girard  is an Assistant Professor and researcher at McGill University. Her research focuses on the relationship between justice and legal communication. She leads the research team “One justice, one access” (1J1A), whose work examines issues such as legal translation, court interpretation, and barriers to access to justice for official language minority communities in Canada. 

Her work adopts an interdisciplinary approach drawing on fields such as law, sociolinguistics, education, and economics to better understand contemporary challenges related to access to justice. This approach offers original insights into the interaction between the capacity of justice system stakeholders and institutions to provide services in French outside Quebec and the ability of justiciables to access those services. 

Marie-Hélène holds a PhD in jurilinguistics from University of Geneva. Her dissertation examined the implementation of the concept of genocide in the legislation of 75 countries around the world, at the intersection of comparative law, legislative drafting, legislative translation, and legal interpretation.