an interview with
Dr. Seana Sugrue by Sarah Blanchard
Dr. Seana Sugrue is the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty at Ave Maria University. She holds a B.A. in business administration from Bishop’s University, a LL.B. from the University of Ottawa, and both an LL.M. and a D.C.L. from McGill University. Dr. Sugrue came to Ave Maria University in 2004 as Associate Professor of Politics, where she has taught classes on constitutional law, public policy, international relations and American government. Her favorite place on campus is the classroom.
a v e m a r i a m a g a z i n e | f a l l 2016
On her education…
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I am a product of the Canadian education system. I have three law degrees, and my highest law degree, a doctorate of civil law, is an interdisciplinary degree in which I was allowed to approach the study of law from a sociological and a philosophical perspective—to question why it is that people obey law and how it is that they end up shaping it in their own lives.
On her choice to study law… I chose my specialty in part because I have family members who are lawyers, but the major reason why I continued in it was because I had a remarkable mentor,