Full Professor
New Chancellor Day Hall
3644 Peel Street
Room 35
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H3A 1W9
514-398-3041 [Office]
rosalie.jukier [at] mcgill.ca (Email)
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Academic papers on SSRN at
Biography
Since 1985, Rosalie Jukier has been a professor in Âé¶čAVâs Faculty of Law where she teaches in both the civil and common law legal traditions, primarily in the areas of Contractual Obligations and Judicial Institutions and Civil Procedure.Ìę
Professor Jukierâs research focuses on comparative Contract Law (particularly the remedy of Specific Performance and the intersection of religious rights and private contract law), the impact of legal traditions and mixed legal systems on Procedural Law and Judicial Methodology, as well as on Legal Pedagogy.
In 2004, 2016 and 2018, Professor Jukier was recognized with the John W. Durnford Teaching Excellence Award. In 2010, she was awardedÌętheÌę.ÌęIn 2022, she was the co-recipient of Âé¶čAVâsÌę.ÌęIn November 2023, she was awarded theÌęÌęand in 2024, she received the King Charles III Coronation Medal.
Professor Jukier held the position of Âé¶čAVâs Dean of Students from 1995-2001 and has served the Faculty of Law as Associate Dean, Âé¶čAV (1991-1995), Associate Dean Strategic Planning (2004-2005), Associate Dean Graduate Studies (2010-2013)Ìęand Associate Dean Academic (2019-2022).ÌęÌę
Professor Rosalie Jukier is a graduate of Âé¶čAVâs Faculty of Law where, in 1983, she obtained her BCL and LLB degrees, and graduatedwith both the Elizabeth Torrance Gold Medal and the AimĂ© Geoffrion National Programme Gold Medal.Ìę She went on to pursue graduate studies in law at Oxford University and became a member of the Quebec Bar in 1986.
Education
- BCL (Oxon.) 1985
- BCL, LLB (Âé¶čAV) 1983
Employment
- Associate Dean (Academic), Faculty of Law, Âé¶čAV, 2019-2022
- Full Professor, Faculty of Law, Âé¶čAV, 2016-
- Associate Dean, Graduate Studies, Faculty of Law, Âé¶čAV, 2010-2013
- Senior Advisor, National Judicial Institute, 2005-2007
- Associate Dean, Strategic Planning, Faculty of Law, Âé¶čAV, 2003-2005
- Dean of Students, Âé¶čAV, 1995-2001
- Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Âé¶čAV, 1993-2016
- Associate Dean, Âé¶čAV and Placement, Faculty of Law, Âé¶čAV, 1991-1994
- Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Âé¶čAV, 1985-1993
- Member of the Quebec Bar since 1986
Areas of Interest
Comparative Private Law, Mixed Legal Systems, Contract Law and Remedies, Judicial Law, Judicial Methodology, Legal Pedagogy.
Books
Richard Janda, Rosalie Jukier, Daniel Jutras, eds., (Montreal & Kingston:Ìę Âé¶čAV-Queenâs University Press, 2015).
Chapters in books and edited collection
âThe Untapped Potential of Transsystemic Thinkingâ, in YaĂ«l Emerich & Marie-AndrĂ©e Plante, eds., Repenser les paradigmes: Quel avenir pour lâapproche transsystĂ©mique du droit?, (Cowansville: Ăditions Yvon Blais, 2018) 1 â 30. [SSRN]
âThe Impact of âStateless Lawâ on Legal Pedagogyâ, Helge Dedek & Shauna Van Praagh, eds, Stateless Law:Ìę Evolving Boundaries of a Discipline, (Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015) 201 - 211. Read [.pdf]
with JosĂ© Woehrling, âReligion and the Secular State in Canadaâ, in Javier Martinez-Torron & W. Cole Durham, Jr., (General Reporters), Donlu D. Thayer, ed., Religion and the Secular State, (Madrid: servicio publicaciones facultad derecho Universidad Complutense Madrid, 2015) 155 â 191. Read [.pdf]
âIf Itâs not Impossible, Itâs Not Worth Doing: Rod Macdonaldâs Vision of Legal Educationâ, in Richard Janda, Rosalie Jukier & Daniel Jutras, eds, The Unbounded Level of the Mind: Rod Macdonaldâs Legal Imagination, (Montreal & Kingston:Ìę Âé¶čAV-Queenâs University Press, 2015) 198 â 205. Read [.pdf]
"Taking Specific Performance Seriously: Trumping Damages as the Presumptive Remedy for Breach of Contract" in Robert J. Sharpe & Kent Roach, eds., Taking Remedies Seriously/Les Recours et les Mesures de Redressement:Ìę Une Affaire SĂ©rieuse (Montreal: Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, 2010) 85 â 118. Read [.pdf]
with JosĂ© Woehrling, âReligion and the Secular State in Canada" in Javier Martinez-Torron & W. Cole Durham, eds, Religion and the Secular State: National Reports (Provo, Utah: The International Center for Law and Religious Studies at Brigham Young University, 2010) 183 â 212. Read [.pdf]
Chapter on Contractual Obligations in J.E.C. Brierley and R.A. Macdonald eds, Quebec Civil Law, An Introduction to Quebec Private Law (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 1992) 389 â 419.
Refereed Journal Articles
âGood Faith in Contract: A Judicial Dialogue between Common Law Canada and QuĂ©becâ, (2019) 1:1. Journal of Commonwealth Law. .
âCanadaâs Legal Traditions: Sources of Unification, Diversification or Inspiration?â, (2018) 11:1 Journal of Civil Law Studies (Louisiana) 75 â 104.Ìę [SSRN]Ìę
âLa contribution du juge LeBel au droit judiciaire et Ă la tradition civilisteâ, (2016) 94 Revue du Barreau canadien 507 - 518. [SSRN]
âQuebec Procedural Law as a Microcosm of Mixity: Implications for Legal Pedagogy, Judicial Decision-Making and Law Reformâ, (2016) 62:3 Loyola Law Review 691 â 723.Ìę [SSRN]
âThe Impact of Legal Traditions on Quebec Procedural Law: Lessons from Quebecâs New Code of Civil Procedureâ, (2015) 93 Canadian Bar Review. Read [.pdf]
âThe Legacy of Justice Louis LeBel: The Civilian Tradition and Procedural Lawâ, (2015) 70 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 27 - 46, as reprinted in Newman & Thorburn, The Dignity of Law: The Legacy of Justice Louis LeBel (Markham, ON: LexisNexis, 2015). Read [.pdf]
with Mariela Tovar, Jennie Ferris and Kristen Cardoso, âOvercoming Pedagogical Solitude: The Transformative power of discipline-specific Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs)â, (2015) 34:1-2 To Improve the Academy 319 â 344. Read [.pdf].Ìę
with Kate Glover, âForgotten? The Role of Graduate Legal Education in the Future of the Law Facultyâ, (2014) 51:4 Alberta Law Review 761 â 785. Read [.pdf].
âTranscending Boundaries in Legal Education:Ìę A Vehicle for Teaching Students to Think Criticallyâ, (2013) 6 CELT (Collected Essays on Teaching and Learning) 23 â 27. Read [.pdf]
âInside the Judicial Mind: Exploring Judicial Methodology in the Mixed Legal System of Quebecâ (2011) 6:1 Journal of Comparative Law (UK) 54 â 69, republished in the European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance (2013) DOI 10.1163/22134514-45060013). Read [.pdf]
âContract Law:Ìę What can Jersey Learn from the Quebec Experience?â (2011) 14 Jersey and Guernsey Law Review 131 â 149. Read [.pdf]
with Shauna Van Praagh, âCivil Law and Religion in the Supreme Court of Canada:Ìę What should we get out of Bruker v. Marcovitz?â, (2008) 43 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 381 â 411. Read [.pdf]
ÌęâTransnationalizing the Legal Curriculum: How to Teach What We Liveâ, (2006) 56:2 Journal of Legal Education 172 â 189. Read [.pdf]
âChallenging the Existing Paradigm: How to Transnationalize the Legal Curriculumâ (2006) 24:4 Penn State International Law Review 775 â 786. Read [.pdf]
âWhere Law and Pedagogy Meet in the Transsystemic Contracts Classroomâ (2005) 50:4 Âé¶čAV Law Journal 789 â 808. Read [.pdf]
with Roderick A Macdonald, âThe New Quebec Civil Code and Recent Federal Law Reform Proposals: Rehabilitating Commercial Law in Quebec?â (1992) 20 Canadian Business Law Journal 380 â 405. Read [.pdf]
âBanque Nationale du Canada v. Houle (S.C.C.):Ìę Implications of an Expanded Doctrine of Abuse of Rights in Civilian Contract Lawâ (1992) 37 Âé¶čAV Law Journal 221 â 241. Read [.pdf]
âNon-Pecuniary Damages in Defamation Casesâ (1989) 49 Revue du Barreau 3 â 51. Read [.pdf]
âFlexibility and Certainty as Competing Contract Values: A Civil Lawyerâs Reaction to the Ontario Law Reform Commissionâs Recommendations on Amendments to the Law of Contractâ (1988) 14 Canadian Business Law Journal 13 â 39. Read [.pdf]
âThe Emergence of Specific Performance as a Major Remedy in Quebec Lawâ, (1987) 47 Revue du Barreau 47 â 72. Read [.pdf]
Non-Refereed Publications and Other Papers or Reports
âServing all of Canadaâs Judges:Ìę Bilingualism and Bijuralism at the National Judicial Instituteâ, in NJI 20th Anniversary Essays â A Collection. Read the article [.pdf]. Read the [.pdf]
with José Woehrling, National Report for Canada on Religion and the Secular State, January 2010, prepared for the XVIIIth International Congress of Comparative Law.