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Professor Yves-Marie Morissette

Biography

Yves-Marie Morissette giving the 2012 Wainwright Lecture
Yves-Marie Morissette giving the 2012 Wainwright Lecture.
Mr. Justice Y.-M. Morissette holds a B.A. (Political Science) from the Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al, an LL.L (with distinction) from the Universit茅 de Montr茅al and a D.Phil. from Oxford University (1978). He was appointed assistant professor at the Faculty of Law at 成人VR视频 in 1977. He was later named associate professor (1981) and full professor (1991). He was invited as a lecturer or visiting professor to Canada, the United States, France, Vietnam and the Popular Republic of China.

He served as Dean of the Faculty of Law, 成人VR视频 from 1989 until 1994. In 2002, he was named the Director of the Institute of Comparative Law, 成人VR视频 as well as the Wainwright Professor of Civil Law. That same year, he was appointed to the Court of Appeal of Quebec.

Justice Morissette made several contributions to the legal literature. Among his books are La transparence dans le syst猫me judiciaire (1994) of which he was the editor, and Le Renvoi sur la s茅cession du Qu茅bec 鈥 Bilan et perspectives (2001). In 2000, he published with the Presses Universitaires de France translations into French of several texts by Ronald Coase, including 鈥淭he Problem of Social Cost鈥. 鈥淐anada as a post-Modern Kritarchy鈥 (1998), 鈥淒eux ou trois choses que je sais d鈥檈lle (la rationalit茅 juridique)鈥 (2000), and 鈥淎bus de droit, qu茅rulence et partie non repr茅sent茅es鈥 (2004) are but a few of his several articles.

Prior to his appointment to the Court of Appeal, Justice Morissette served as the vice president of the Fondation du Barreau du Qu茅bec (1992-1998) and chaired its committee on the humanization of family law (1995-1998). He also acted as president of the Association des professeurs de droit du Qu茅bec (1985-1986).

He received many awards for his accomplishments, including a Rhodes Scholarship in 1973 and the M茅daille 脡douard-Montpetit presented by the Fondation 脡douard-Montpetit in 1994.

On October 4, 2012, the Hon. Yves-Marie Morissette, Justice of the Quebec Court of Appeal, gave the 2012 Wainwright Lecture on the subject of 鈥Aspects historiques et analytiques de l'appel en mati猫re civile.鈥

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