Robert Leckey
Robert Leckey is a full professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Faculty of Law; he became director of the Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law in August 2014. He teaches constitutional law and family law.
From 2002 to 2003, he served as law clerk for Justice Michel Bastarache of the Supreme Court of Canada. From 2003 to 2006, he undertook doctoral studies in law at the University of Toronto as a Trudeau scholar. His dissertation, which received the Alan Marks Medal for best graduate thesis in 2006, was published as Contextual Subjects: Family, State, and Relational Theory, by University of Toronto Press in 2008. In 2005-2006, he worked as a visiting scholar at the Centre de recherche en éthique de l’Université de Montréal (CRÉUM). He joined the Faculty of Law in July 2006 and was named a William Dawson Scholar by McGill University in 2011. During his sabbatical leave in 2012-2013, he was a special visitor at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.
He has been a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada since 2003 and serves on the editorial boards for Les Ateliers de l’éthique, the Canadian Journal of Law and Society, and the Review of Constitutional Studies. From 2008-2011, he chaired the McGill Equity Subcommittee on Queer People. In 2010-2011, he served as director of research for the Inquiry Commission on the Process for Appointing Judges (the Bastarache Commission). He is the president of Egale Canada as well as the chair of its Legal Issues Committee.
Robert Leckey has received the Prix de la Fondation du Barreau du Québec (2007), the Canadian Association of Law Teachers' Scholarly Paper Prize (2009), the McGill Law Students’ Association’s John W. Durnford Teaching Excellence Award (2009), the Canada Prize of the International Academy of Comparative Law (2010), and the Principal's Prize for Excellence in Teaching (2010).
In 2014, he was selected for membership in the Global Young Academy.
From 2002 to 2003, he served as law clerk for Justice Michel Bastarache of the Supreme Court of Canada. From 2003 to 2006, he undertook doctoral studies in law at the University of Toronto as a Trudeau scholar. His dissertation, which received the Alan Marks Medal for best graduate thesis in 2006, was published as Contextual Subjects: Family, State, and Relational Theory, by University of Toronto Press in 2008. In 2005-2006, he worked as a visiting scholar at the Centre de recherche en éthique de l’Université de Montréal (CRÉUM). He joined the Faculty of Law in July 2006 and was named a William Dawson Scholar by McGill University in 2011. During his sabbatical leave in 2012-2013, he was a special visitor at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.
He has been a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada since 2003 and serves on the editorial boards for Les Ateliers de l’éthique, the Canadian Journal of Law and Society, and the Review of Constitutional Studies. From 2008-2011, he chaired the McGill Equity Subcommittee on Queer People. In 2010-2011, he served as director of research for the Inquiry Commission on the Process for Appointing Judges (the Bastarache Commission). He is the president of Egale Canada as well as the chair of its Legal Issues Committee.
Robert Leckey has received the Prix de la Fondation du Barreau du Québec (2007), the Canadian Association of Law Teachers' Scholarly Paper Prize (2009), the McGill Law Students’ Association’s John W. Durnford Teaching Excellence Award (2009), the Canada Prize of the International Academy of Comparative Law (2010), and the Principal's Prize for Excellence in Teaching (2010).
In 2014, he was selected for membership in the Global Young Academy.
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This collection presents new research, gathering under its rubric authors from England and Wales, the United States, and Canada. Under an overarching theme of kinship and care, the chapters are organized into three parts: Care and Justice under Neo-liberalism, States' Reach, and Sex and Love. The recognition of same-sex relationships - primarily conjugal ones - emerges as the prevalent site of investigation, but chapters also address care more broadly, gender relations in parenting, cohabitation, and organizing for racial equality. This gathering embodies an effort to transcend the barriers that often confine legal scholarship within law and, via specialized journals, within fields. For example, the collection sets scholars of family law in conversation with tax specialists. Disciplinarily, it juxtaposes socio-legal scholarship with the work of specialists in sociology, American studies, and women's studies. The introduction proposes a method and 'register' for researching 'after legal equality'.
This collection presents new research, gathering under its rubric authors from England and Wales, the United States, and Canada. Under an overarching theme of kinship and care, the chapters are organized into three parts: Care and Justice under Neo-liberalism, States' Reach, and Sex and Love. The recognition of same-sex relationships - primarily conjugal ones - emerges as the prevalent site of investigation, but chapters also address care more broadly, gender relations in parenting, cohabitation, and organizing for racial equality. This gathering embodies an effort to transcend the barriers that often confine legal scholarship within law and, via specialized journals, within fields. For example, the collection sets scholars of family law in conversation with tax specialists. Disciplinarily, it juxtaposes socio-legal scholarship with the work of specialists in sociology, American studies, and women's studies. The introduction proposes a method and 'register' for researching 'after legal equality'.