Jean Leclair

LL.B. Montreal 1985; LL. M. Montréal 1990 (recipient of the Duff-Rinfret scholarship). Full professor since 2002; member of the Centre de recherche en éthique of U. of Montreal; Visiting Professor Centre Urbanisation Culture Société de l’Institut national de la recherche scientifique (2011-2015); member of the consultative council of the Groupe international de travail sur les peuples autochtones (GITPA) (institutional member of IWGIA); scholar in residence at the Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao (Spain) (Fall 2018); scholar in residence at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale) Germany (Spring 2019); clerk to Madam Justice Desjardins, Federal Court of Appeal, 1986-1988; Member of the Bar of Quebec since 1987. Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation fellow 2013. Prix André Morel 2016-2017 for excellence in teaching.

Teaching and research subjects: Constitutional Law (Federalism and Fundamental Rights), Comparative constitutional law, Indigenous Legal Issues, Legal Epistemology and Theory, Canadian Legal History.

Most recent books: Ghislain Otis, Jean Leclair & Sophie Thériault, Applied Legal Pluralism: Processes, Driving Forces and Effects, Routledge, Londres, 2022 and Noura Karazivan & Jean Leclair (ed), The Political and Constitutional Legacy of Pierre Elliott Trudeau — L’héritage politique et constitutionnel de Pierre Elliott Trudeau, LexisNexis, Toronto, 2020.