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Research Chairs

Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and Development

Professor Adelle Blackett.

Professor Yaëll Emerich.

Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Constitutionalism and Philosophy

Professor Aaron Mills.

Canada Research Chair in Cosmopolitan Law and Justice

Professor Evan Fox-Decent.

Canada Research Chair in Human Rights, Health and the Environment

Professor Sébastien Jodoin.

Canada Research Chair in Liability Health Governance, and Social Change

Professor Lara Khoury

Canada Research Chair in Health, Inclusion and Policy

Professor Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry

Sir William C. Macdonald Chairs

The previous incumbents were Professor Lionel Smith and Professor Fabien Gélinas.

Established in 1895, the Macdonald Chair is one of the oldest endowed positions at ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ. Chair holders teach and supervise undergraduate students and graduate students at the master and doctoral levels in the Faculty of Law, and take a leadership role in research in their field locally, nationally and globally.

James ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Chairs

Professor Richard Gold and Professor René Provost

The James ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Chair is awarded by ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ to advance and support the scholarship and research of exceptional academic staff in priority areas of intellectual interest.

William Dawson Scholars

Professor Frédéric Mégret and Professor Marie Manikis.

The William Dawson Chair is awarded by ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ to advance and support the scholarship and research of exceptional academic staff in priority areas of intellectual interest.

H. Heward Stikeman Chair in the Law of Taxation

Professor Allison Christians.

The Stikeman Chair provides intellectual leadership on issues related to fiscal and tax law locally, nationally and globally. The previous incumbent was Professor Kim Brooks (2007-2010).

Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law

Professor Frédéric Mégret.

The previous incumbent was Professor François Crépeau.

The provides a Canadian locus for the study and research of international law, with particular attention to the relationship between international legal obligations and domestic law. The Chair studies theoretical and practical dimensions of the implementation of international treaty, customary and other obligations in domestic law with due regard to the constitutional setting in federal and unitary states.

Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy

Professor Daniel Weinstock.

Tenable jointly inside ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ's Faculties of Arts and of Law, the Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy was created in 2011 through a generous gift from the McConnell Foundation. The Pearson Chair assumes leadership within a new Civil Society Program at ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ, which rests on a broad meaning of civil society as an analytic term for the social sciences and humanities. The inaugural incumbent was Professor Ron Niezen (2013-2020) from the Faculty of Arts.

L. Yves Fortier Chair in International Arbitration and International Commercial Law

Professor Andrea Bjorklund.

Created in 2008 by Rio Tinto Alcan, the L. Yves Fortier Chair in International Arbitration and International Commercial Law leads advances in the field of international arbitration, and conducts research to help shape the future of both the practice and understanding of international law.

Peter MacKell Chair in Federalism

Professor Johanne Poirier.

The Peter MacKell Chair in Federalism, endowed in 2011, was made possible by a generous $3 million bequest from Peter R. D. MacKell, Q.C., BCL'51. Articulated around an interdisciplinary background in law, political theory and public policy, the Chair will make contributions to the theory and comparative practice of federalism, understood broadly as a mode of governance and a technique of social organization. The compass of the Chair embraces not only state-federalism, but inter-state federalism, federalism in non-state normative orders, and federalism within NGOs, QUANGOs, corporations and labour organizations. The chairholder will lead research programs relating to all aspects of the federal idea, and more generally to the place of federalism as a mode of social structuring for the global legal order.

Samuel Gale Chair

Professor Robert Leckey.

The previous incumbent was Professor Margaret Somerville.

Business Law Professorship

Professor Peer Zumbansen, who convenes the .

Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Law

Professor Alicia Hinarejos

Peter M. Laing Chair

The previous incumbent was Professor Geneviève Saumier.

F.R. Scott Chair in Public and Constitutional Law

Professor Colleen Sheppard

The previous incumbents were Professor Mark Walters (2015-2019), and Professor Rod Macdonald (1995-2014).

Wainwright Chair in Civil Law

Professor

The last incumbent was Professor Daniel Jutras (2011-2020).

The Wainwright Chair is supported by the Wainwright Fund, which was established by a bequest from Professor Emeritus Arnold Wainwright (1879-1967), BCL 1902, LLD 1963, who taught Civil law at ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ's Faculty of Law from 1909 to 1934.

Tomlinson Chair in Global Governance in Air & Space Law

The last incumbent was Professor Paul Dempsey.

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