Mary Macaulay

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Bio

Mary Macaulay is a lawyer and a partner at Mandell Pinder LLP in Vancouver. For more than 20 years she has acted as counsel for Indigenous peoples in Aboriginal and treaty rights related litigation. Throughout her career, she has participated in the practical and academic development of the law on Aboriginal litigation issues. She is the author of the litigation handbook Aboriginal & Treaty Rights Practice (Thomson Reuters, 2000) and co-author of "Snow Houses Leave No Ruins": Unique Evidence Issues in Aboriginal and Treaty Rights Cases (The Saskatchewan Law Review, 1996). She has been a chair and presenter at numerous conferences on Aboriginal law issues. Mary is also a director of the Western Front artist-run centre and of the Contemporary Art Gallery, and an honorary council member for the Canadian Society for the Decorative Arts. She holds a Master of Laws focusing on alternative dispute resolution and a Bachelor of Laws from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto.