Équipe professorale en droit de l'environnement
Équipe professorale en droit de l'environnement
Jamie Benidickson
Jamie Benidickson, LL.M. Harvard, enseigne en anglais le droit de l'environnement et le droit de l'eau. Anciennement titulaire de la chaire des ressources naturelles à la University of Calgary, il était un des chercheurs-consultants dans l'affaire Walkerton sur l'approvisionnement en eau et les systèmes d'assainissement de l'eau à l'échelle municipale. Ses publications incluent The Temagami Experience: Recreation, Resources and Aboriginal Rights in the Northern Ontario Wilderness, University of Toronto Press, 1989 et Environmental Law, Irwin Law, 2002.
Nathalie Chalifour
Nathalie Chalifour, JSM Stanford, qui est inscrite au programme de doctorat à la University of Stanford, termine actuellement sa thèse pour l'obtention de ce grade. Ses intérêts de recherche très variés incluent le commerce et l'environnement, la préservation des forêts, l'écofiscalité et le droit international de l'environnement ainsi que les politiques connexes. En plus d'occuper des postes dans le secteur de la recherche et de l'élaboration de politique auprès de diverses organisations non gouvernementales, du Fonds mondial pour la nature et de TRAFFIC, elle a enseigné à la University of Nairobi, au Kenya. Elle a également occupé le poste de conseillère principale du président de la Table ronde nationale sur l'environnement et l'économie.
Lynda M. Collins
Lynda M. Collins graduated as Gold Medalist from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2000. Professor Collins practiced with the Sierra Legal Defence Fund until 2003, litigating major environmental cases in tribunals ranging from the Ontario Municipal Board to the Supreme Court of Canada. From 2003 to 2005, Professor Collins practiced toxic tort with a leading San Francisco law firm representing state and local governments in complex multi-district litigation against the oil industry to recover damages for drinking water contamination. Professor Collins received her LLM from the University of British Columbia in 2006. Since returning to Canada, she has appeared before the Standing Environment Committees at both the House of Commons and the Senate, and has consulted with a range of governmental and non-governmental organizations. Professor Collins has published on a variety of subjects including freedom of information in environmental advocacy, Aboriginal environmental rights, causation in toxic tort, and the integration of the Precautionary Principle into toxic tort doctrine. Her current areas of interest include the intersection between public and private law in the area of toxic tort, the human right to environment, and the principle of intergenerational equity in international and European Union law.
Stewart Elgie
Stewart Elgie (LLM Harvard) was the founder of the Sierra Legal Defence Fund (now EcoJustice) where he was extensively involved in precedent-setting environmental litigation and endangered species law reform. He was subsequently founding executive director of the Canadian Boreal Initiative, a member of the federal legislative task force on endangered species, and chair of the national advisory committee to the NAFTA environment commission (CEC). He teaches and in the areas of environmental law and natural resources law and policy. His recent research has been on endangered species law and policy, and the constitution and the environment.
Elgie’s main focus now is on economic approaches to environmental protection. He is the founder and chair of Sustainable Prosperity, a national research-policy network that brings together scholars with leaders from business, environment and government across Canada to work on market based approaches for a greener, stronger economy. This network includes substantial funding opportunities for LLB and graduate student research. His specific research focuses on market-based approaches (taxes, markets, etc.) to issues such as forest conservation, climate change, and clean energy.
Yves Le Bouthillier
Yves Le Bouthillier, LL.B. (Ottawa), DEA (Paris II) enseigne le droit international de l'environnement au programme de common law en français. Le vice-doyen Le Bouthillier revient à la Faculté après un détachement au ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Commerce international en qualité d'universitaire en résidence participant activement aux négociations, entre autres, de la Convention de Stockholm sur les polluants organiques persistants.
Heather McLeod-Kilmurray
Heather McLeod-Kilmurray était conseillère juridique à Environnement Canada avant de compléter ses études de maîtrise à la Cambridge University. Elle termine actuellement le programme d'études doctorales à la University of Toronto. Sa thèse traite de la mise en application des règles de procédure civile dans le contexte environnemental, plus particulièrement des recours collectifs, des injonctions préalables au procès, des règles relatives à la qualité pour agir et à la qualité d'intervenant et des leçons éthiques du contexte environnemental utiles pour les fins de la procédure judiciaire.
Don McRae
Don McRae, ancien doyen de la Faculté, est un juriste de réputation internationale qui possède une riche expérience de la gestion des pêcheries et du droit de la mer. Il a publié et donné de nombreuses communications sur les questions commerciales et environnementales. Il est actuellement conseiller juridique spécial de la Commission de coopération environnementale (CCE) concernant la procédure relative aux communications des citoyens.
Bradford W. Morse
Professor, University of Ottawa, (Common Law) since 1976. Executive Director of Native Legal Task Force of British Columbia 1974-75. Research Director, Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba 1988-91. Chief of Staff to the Hon. Ronald A. Irwin, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development 1993-1996. Member of the Law Society of Upper Canada since 1979. Visiting Scholar to a number of law schools. Teaching subjects: wide variety of courses concerning Canadian and comparative Aboriginal law issues, labour and employment law, Trusts, Property Law, Intergovernmental Relations, Civil Liberties and Legal Systems. Publications: over 50 books, articles, chapters in books and commission reports, including: Prepared for the Law Reform Commission of Canada, "The Interaction Between Environmental Law Enforcement and Aboriginal and Treaty Rights", with David Nahwegahbow, 321 pages (November 1985); “Aboriginal Legal Issues in the Conservation of Natural Heritage”, National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, (January 2002); “Aboriginal Issues in Canada's Boreal Forest” co-authored with Jamie Benidickson, Stewart Elgie, Ryan Flewelling, Melanie Mallet and Kenny Loon, 112 pp (Ottawa: National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, 2005). Legal advisor to many First Nations and consultant to various royal commissions, government departments and indigenous peoples’ organisations in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
