Robert Leckey

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Biographie

Robert Leckey enseigne le droit constitutionnel et le droit de la famille, et mène des recherches dans ces domaines ainsi qu’en droit comparé. Il travaille présentement sur un livre qui s'intitule « Bills of Rights in the Common Law ».

De 2002 à 2003, il a été l’auxiliaire juridique du juge Michel Bastarache à la Cour suprême du Canada. Boursier de la Fondation Trudeau de 2003 à 2006, il a obtenu un doctorat de la Faculté de droit de l'Université de Toronto. Sa dissertation, qui lui a valu la médaille Alan Marks pour la meilleur thèse doctorale de 2006, a été publiée par University of Toronto Press en 2008, sous le titre « Contextual Subjects: Family, State, and Relational Theory ». En 2005-2006, il a travaillé comme chercheur invité au Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal (CRÉUM). Il s’est joint à la Faculté de droit en juillet 2006 et a été nommé le titluaire d'une chaire William Dawson par l'Université McGill en 2011. Pendant son année sabbatique en 2012-2013, il est un invité spécial de l'Institut d'études canadiennes de McGill.

Membre du Barreau du Haut-Canada depuis 2003, il siège aux comités de rédaction des Ateliers de l'éthique, de la Revue canadienne droit et société et de la Revue d'études constitutionnelles. De 2008 à 2011, il a présidé le McGill Equity Subcommittee on Queer People. En 2010 et 2011, il a agi comme directeur de la recherche pour la Commission d'enquête sur le processus de nominations des juges du Québec (la Commission Bastarache). Il est président d'Égale Canada et du Comité des affaires juridiques de cet organisme.

Robert Leckey a gagné le Prix de la Fondation du Barreau du Québec (2007), le Prix du concours d'essai juridique de l’Association canadienne des professeur(e)s de droit, le Prix John W. Durnford d’excellence en enseignement de l’Association des étudiant(e)s en droit de McGill (2009), le Prix Canada de l'Académie internationale de droit comparé (2010) et le Prix de la principale d’excellence en enseignement (2010).

Il a reçu un Chaire William Dawson de l'Université McGill en 2011.

Parcours professionnel

Titulaire d'une chaire William Dawson, 2011-

Directeur par intérim, Centre de recherche en droit privé et comparé du Québec, juillet-décembre 2011

Professeur agrégé, Faculté de droit, Université McGill, 2011-

Professeur adjoint, Université McGill, Faculté de droit, 2006-2011

Chercheur invité, Centre de recherche en éthique de l’Université de Montréal (CRÉUM), 2005-2006

Auxiliaire juridique auprès du juge Michel Bastarache, Cour suprême du Canada, 2002-2003

Gestionnaire, Affaires publiques, Institut des fonds d'investissement du Canada (IFIC), 1997-98

Études

S.J.D. (University of Toronto), 2003-2006
B.C.L./ LL.B., (McGill University), 1998-2002
Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), Academic Exchange (CRÉPUQ), 2001-2002
B.A. (Hons.) (Queen’s University), 1993-97

Champs d'intérêt

Droit de la famille, droit administratif, droit constitutionnel.

Publications

Publications à paraître

“Face to Face” 19 Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture [forthcoming in 2013], 28 pp.
 

“Bankruptcy, Provincial Law, and the Family Farm” 91 Canadian Bar Review [forthcoming in 2013], 25 pp.
 

Review: Patrice Corriveau, Judging Homosexuals: A History of Gay Persecution in Quebec and France, trans. by Käthe Roth (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011) Osgoode Hall Law Journal [forthcoming], 10 pp.
 

Articles de revue

“Family Law and the Charter’s First 30 Years: An Impact Delayed, Deep, and Declining but Lasting” (2013) 32:1 Canadian Family Law Quarterly 21–52 (with Nicholas Bala).
 

"Developments in Family Law: The 2010-2012 Terms" (2012) 59 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 193-231.
Related Link: SSRN
 

"Developments in Family Law: The 2008-2009 Term - Just Divisions?" (2009) 48 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 181-219.
Related Link: Developments in Family Law, the 2008-2009 Term: Just Divisions?
 

"Thick Instrumentalism and Comparative Constitutionalism: The Case of Gay Rights" (2009) 40 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 425-78.
Related Document: Thick Instrumentalism and Comparative Constitutionalism: The Case of Gay Rights [.pdf]
 

"Chosen Discrimination" (2002) 18 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 445-75.
Related Link: Chosen Discrimination
 

Articles dans une publication avec comité de lecture

"Two Mothers in Law and Fact" (2013) 21:1 Feminist Legal Studies 1–19.
Related Link: SSRN
 

“Unjust Enrichment and De facto Spouses” (2012) 114:3 Revue du Notariat 475–500.
 

"Gimme Shelter" (2011) 34 Dalhousie Law Journal  197-228.
Related Link: Gimme Shelter

"Law Reform, Lesbian Parenting, and the Reflective Claim" (2011) 20 Social & Legal Studies 331-48.
 

"Lesbian Parental Projects in Word and Deed" (2011) 45 Revue Juridique Thémis 315-41.
Related Link: Lesbian Parental Projects in Word and Deed
 

"The Practices of Lesbian Mothers and Quebec’s Reforms" (2011) 23 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 579-99.
Related Link: The Practices of Lesbian Mothers and Quebec’s Reforms
 

"But What Is Judicial Guidance? Debating Canadian Judgments on Children" (2010) 32 Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 381-90.
Related Link: But What is Judicial Guidance? Debating Canadian Judgments on Children
 

"Complexifying Roncarelli’s Rule of Law" (2010) 55 McGill Law Journal 721-41.
Related Link: Complexifying Roncarelli's Rule of Law
 

"Rhapsodie sur la forme et le fond de l’harmonisation juridique" (2010) 51 Les Cahiers de Droit 3-49.
Related Link: Rhapsodie sur la forme et le fond de l'harmonisation juridique
 

"A Common Law of the Family? Reflections on Rick v. Brandsema" (2009) 25 Canadian Journal of Family Law 257-96.
Related Link: A Common Law of the Family?
 

"‘Where the Parents Are of the Same Sex’: Quebec’s Reforms to Filiation" (2009) 23 International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family 62-82.
Related Document: Where the Parents Are of the Same Sex: Quebec’s Reforms to Filiation [.pdf]
 

"Cohabitation and Comparative Method" (2009) 72 Modern Law Review 48-72.
Related Document: Cohabitation and Comparative Method [.pdf]
 

"Family outside the Book on the Family" (2009) 88 Canadian Bar Review 545-78.
Related Link: Family outside the Book on the Family
 

"Contracting Claims and Family Law Feuds" (2007) 57 University of Toronto Law Journal 1-41.
Related Document: Contracting Claims and Family Law Feuds [.pdf]
 

"Family Law as Fundamental Private Law" (2007) 86 Canadian Bar Review 69-96.
Related Document:  Family Law as Fundamental Private Law [.pdf]
 

"Prescribed by Law/Une règle de droit" (2007) 45 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 571-620.
Related Document: Prescribed by Law / Une règle de droit [.pdf]
 

"Private Law as Constitutional Context for Same-Sex Marriage" (2007) 2 Journal of Comparative Law 172-91.
Related Document: Private Law as Constitutional Context for Same-sex Marriage [.pdf]
 

"Profane Matrimony" (2006) 21(2) Canadian Journal of Law & Society 1-23.
Related Document: Profane_Matrimony [.pdf]
 

"Embodied Dignity" (2005) 5 Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal 63-83.
Related Document: Embodied Dignity  [.pdf]
 

"Employing Fairness" (2003) 18:2 Canadian Journal of Law and Society 45-67.
Related Document: Employing Fairness   [.pdf]
 

"Harmonizing Family Law’s Identities" (2002) 28 Queen’s Law Journal 221-77.
Related Document: Harmonizing Family Law's Identities [.pdf]
 

"Relational Contract and Other Models of Marriage" (2002) 40 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 1-47.
Related Document: Relational Contract and Other Models of Marriage [.pdf]
 

"Taking Stock: Securities Regulation and the Division of Powers" (1999) 22(2) Dalhousie Law Journal 250-91 (with Eric Ward).
Related Link: Taking Stock
 

Articles dans une publication technique ou professionnelle

"The Charter & Family Law: The First 30 Years" Special NJI Family Law e-Letter 208A (17 April 2012) (National Judicial Institute) (with Nicholas Bala).

"Lawmakers Should Create Intermediate Parenting Category" (2007) The Lawyers Weekly 9 November 2007
Related Document: Lawmakers Should Create Intermediate Parenting Category [.pdf]
 

"A Matter of Distributing Public Goods Equally" 23:19 The Lawyers Weekly (19 September 2003).
 

Livres et monographies

Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010) (ed. by Robert Leckey and Kim Brooks), 222 pp.
 

Contextual Subjects: Family, State, and Relational Theory (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), 355 pp.
 

Articles ou chapitres de livre et monographies

“Introduction” in Robert Leckey & Kim Brooks, eds., Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire(Abingdon: Routledge, 2010) 1-18 (with Kim Brooks).
 

"What Is Left of Pelech?" in Jamie Cameron, ed., Reflections on the Legacy of Justice Bertha Wilson (Markham: LexisNexis Canada, 2008) 103-29; also published as (2008) 41 Supreme Court L.R. (2d) 103-29.
Related Document: What Is Left of Pelech? [.pdf]
 

"Legislation and Bilingualism" in Michel Bastarache, ed., Language Rights in Canada, 2d ed. (Cowansville, Qc.: Yvon Blais, 2004) 37-139 (1st ed. by A. Braën).
 

"The Private Law of Language" in Bastarache, ibid., 453-525 (1st ed. by E. Didier).
 

French translations published in Michel Bastarache, ed., Les droits linguistiques au Canada, 2d ed. (Cowansville, Qc.: Yvon Blais, 2004).
 

Compte rendus

Review: Fiona Kelly, Transforming Law’s Family: The Legal Recognition of Planned Lesbian Motherhood (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011) (2012) 24 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 482–488
 

Review: Sara Ahmed, The Promise of Happiness (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010) (2012) 24 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 240–56 (with Margaret Denike, Elaine Craig, Kira Tomsons, and Kim Brooks).

Review: Richard Collier, Men, Law and Gender: Essays on the ‘Man’ of Law (Abingdon: Routledge-Cavendish, 2010); Richard Collier and Sally Sheldon, Fragmenting Fatherhood: A Socio-Legal Study (Oxford: Hart, 2008) (2011) 20 Social & Legal Studies 123–6.
 

Review article: “Language and Judgment’s Reach: Reflecting on Limits on Rights” (Luc B. Tremblay & Grégoire C.N. Webber, eds., The Limitation of Charter Rights: Critical Essays on R. v. Oakes (Montreal: Thémis, 2009)) (2010) 60 University of Toronto Law Journal 1031-44.
Related Link: Language and Judgment's Reach
 

Review: Maurice Tancelin, Des obligations en droit mixte du Québec, 7th ed. (Montreal: Wilson & Lafleur, 2009), [2009] Uniform Law Review 1061-6.
Related Document: Review_of Maurice Tancelin Book [.pdf]
 

Review article: "Territoriality in Canadian Administrative Law" (2004) 54 University of Toronto Law Journal 327-64.
Related Document: Territoriality in Canadian Administrative Law [.pdf]
 

Actes de congrès

"Particular Justice: Michel Bastarache and Family Law" in Nicolas Lambert, ed., À l'avant-garde de la dualité: Mélanges en l'honneur de Michel Bastarache/At the Forefront of Duality: Essays in Honour of Michel Bastarache (Cowansville: Yvon Blais, 2011) 117-41.
Related Link: Particular Justice
 

"Filiation and the Translation of Legal Concepts" in Eleanor Cashin Ritaine, ed., Legal Engineering and Comparative Law, vol. 2 (Geneva: Schulthess, 2009) 123-41.
Related Link: Filiation and the Translation of Legal Concepts
 

"Harmoniser le droit dans un espace multilingue et pluri-juridique: un point de vue canadien" [2008] Uniform Law Review 39-58.
Related Link: Harmonizing language and legal traditions
 

"Following Same-Sex Marriage: Redefining Marriage and the Impact for Polygamy" (2007) 2(1) Les ateliers de l’éthique: la revue du CRÉUM 30-35.
Related Document: Following Same-Sex Marriage: Redefining Marriage and the Impact for Polygamy [.pdf]
 

"Language Regulation in New Brunswick’s Private Sector" (2006) 32 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 85.
 

Rapports de recherche

“Introduction aux rapports d’experts” in Commission d’enquête sur le processus de nomination des juges du Québec, Annexes (Québec: Publications du Québec, 2011) 101–12.
 

"Families in the Eyes of the Law: Contemporary Challenges and the Grip of the Past." 2009. IRPP Choices 15 (8), 44 pp. (refereed policy paper).
Related Links on irpp.org site: Summary [.pdf], Résumé [.pdf], Full Report [.pdf]
 

Chroniques de journaux et magazines

"Le droit familial au Québec: une réflexion s’impose", Bulletin de liaison: Fédération des associations de familles monoparentales et recomposées du Québec 34(2), 4-5 (October 2009).
 

Articles destinés aux médias

“Message to Ottawa: Gay Marriage Is Settled, Right?,” Op-ed, The Globe and Mail (14 January 2013, A11).
Related Document: Message to Ottawa: Gay Marriage Is Settled, Right? [.pdf]

“Gare à l’inflation législative,” Op-ed, La Presse (25 October 2012, A27).
Related Document: Gare à l’inflation législative [.pdf]

"HIV Sex Ruling: What Criminal Law Shouldn’t Be Saying", Op-ed, The Gazette (11 October 2012, A17).
Related Document:  HIV Sex Ruling: What Criminal Law Shouldn't be Saying [.pdf]

"It Takes More Than a Verdict to Win Equality", Op-ed, The Globe and Mail (13 January 2012).
Related Document: It Takes More Than a Verdict to Win Equality [.pdf]

"Cohabitants’ Battles Raises Hurdles for Charter Claims", Op-ed, The Lawyers Weekly (28 May 2010, 14, 16).
Related Document: Cohabitants’ Battles Raises Hurdles for Charter Claims [.pdf]
 

"Le projet de loi 94 risque d'enfreindre la liberté de religion", Op-ed, Cyberpresse (15 April 2010).
Related Document: Le projet de loi 94 risque d'enfreindre la liberté de religion [.pdf]
 

"L'union de fait: un droit dépassé", Op-ed, La Presse (4 November 2010, A27).
Related Document: L'union de fait: un droit dépassé [.pdf]
 

"Parentage Is about More Than DNA", Op-ed, The Globe and Mail (28 October 2010, A21).
Related Document: Parentage Is about More Than DNA [.pdf]
 

"Unmarried-Couples Law Hasn’t Kept up with the Times: Quebec Must Review the Rules in Light of Current Marriage Realities”, Op-ed, The Gazette (5 November 2010).
Related Document: Unmarried-couples law hasn't kept up with the times [.pdf]
 

“Être père, n’est-ce qu’une question de gènes?”, Op-ed, Le Soleil (15 July 2009).
Related Document: Être père, n’est-ce qu’une question de gènes? [.pdf]
 

"Adoptive Parents Aren't Second Best", Op-ed, The Globe and Mail (9 October 2009, A17).
Related Document: Adoptive Parents Aren't Second Best [.pdf]
 

"Être père, une question de gènes?," Op-ed, Le Devoir (17 July 2009, A9).
 

"Fatherhood Is Determined by More Than Just DNA", Op-ed, The Gazette (10 July 2009, A17).
Related Document: Fatherhood is determined by more than just DNA [.pdf]
 

"Legal Fatherhood Must Be Determined by More than DNA", Op-ed, The Vancouver Sun (4 August 2009, A9).
 

"Legal Strangers", Op-ed, National Post (11 February 2009, A13).
Related Document: Legal Strangers [.pdf]
 

"Too Many Unmarried Couples Are Ignorant of the Law", Op-ed, The Gazette (18 July 2009, B7).
Related Document: Too Many Unmarried Couples Are Ignorant of the Law [.pdf]
 

"Une réforme qui sape le sens de l'adoption", Op-ed, Le Devoir (22 October 2009, A9).
Related Document: Une reforme_qui sape le sens de l'adoption [.pdf]
 

"Lest We Forget", Letter to the Editor, The Globe and Mail (13 June 2008, A14).
 

"The World Needs More Canada", Letter to the Editor, The Globe and Mail (13 August 2008, A12).
 

"Cuts Like a Knife," Letter to the Editor, The Globe and Mail (2 October 2006, A14).
 

"The PM Is Not Championing a Tradition of Marriage," Op-ed, The Globe and Mail (5 October 2006, A19).
Related Document: The PM Is Not Championing a Tradition of Marriage [.pdf]
 

"The Marriage Debate," Letter to the Editor, The Globe and Mail (20 June 2003).