She holds a Doctorate degree in law from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland as well as a Master degree in law and Bachelor degree in law from the University of Montreal. Combining her legal background with an expertise in ethics, her research interests focus on the interface between regulation and ethics in agricultural biotechnology and animal protection. In addition to peer-reviewed publications on animal law and ethics, and the ethical, policy and regulatory issues raised by the genetic engineering of animals and plants, she is the author of L’expérimentation animale: l’homme, l’éthique et la loi (1990); and director of Bio-ingénierie et responsabilité sociale (2006).