{"id":23846,"date":"2020-04-07T01:05:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T05:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?p=23846"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:09","slug":"congratulations-veronica-overlid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/2020\/congratulations-veronica-overlid\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Veronica \u00d8verlid!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Congratulations Veronica \u00d8verlid!\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/veronica-overlid\/veronica-oeverlid-headshot-large\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23650\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Veronica-Oeverlid-headshot-large-240x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Veronica-Oeverlid-headshot-large-240x240.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Veronica-Oeverlid-headshot-large-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Veronica-Oeverlid-headshot-large-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Veronica-Oeverlid-headshot-large-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Veronica-Oeverlid-headshot-large-360x360.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Veronica-Oeverlid-headshot-large.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Veronica \u00d8verlid, a second-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton, has been awarded a 2020 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Scholarship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her research focuses on migration and refugee law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00d8verlid has a degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies (BA) and an MA in International Human Rights Law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to the Ph.D., she worked with civil society organizations related to human rights and youth in several countries and has written several articles about human rights activism in Latin America. She has, furthermore, worked at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Egypt, with a focus on gender-based violence. She has significant experience in teaching as well as in outreach work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, Veronica is involved in various student initiatives at Carleton, including the Migration and Diaspora Student Society and the Graduate Law Student Association. For her doctoral dissertation, she is examining the &#8220;migrant caravan&#8221; in Central America as a social resistance movement, considering its implications for international law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/veronica-overlid\/\">Veronica<\/a> on this prestigious award!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veronica \u00d8verlid, a second-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton, has been awarded a 2020 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Scholarship. Her research focuses on migration and refugee law. \u00d8verlid has a degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies (BA) and an MA in International Human Rights Law. 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