Jean leclair

Université de Montréal, Law, Faculty Member

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LL. B. Montréal 1985; LL. M. Montréal 1990 (récipiendaire de la bourse Duff-Rinfret). Membre du Barreau du Québec depuis 1987. Auxiliaire juridique auprès d’un juge de la Cour fédérale, division d’appel, 1986-1988. chargé de cours, U. de Montréal, 1989-1991; Professeur adjoint, U. de Montréal, 1991-1996; Professeur agrégé, U. de Montréal, 1996-2002; Professeur titulaire depuis 2002. Lauréat de la Fondation Pierre Elliott Trudeau 2013. Prix André Morel 2016-2017 pour excellence en enseignement. Professeur invité Centre Urbanisation Culture Société de l’Institut national de la recherche scientifique (2011-2015), chercheur invité à la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao (Espagne) (automne 2018) ; chercheur invité au Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale) Allemagne (printemps 2019) ; Membre du Centre de recherche en éthique de l’Université de Montréal ; Membre du Conseil consultatif du Groupe international de travail sur les peuples autochtones (GITPA) (membre institutionnel du IWGIA).
Sujets d’enseignement et de recherche: droit constitutionnel (fédéralisme, constitutionnalisme et droits fondamentaux), droits des peuples autochtones, histoire du droit québécois et canadien, épistémologie et théorie du droit.

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Modération et pragmatisme

Jean-Charles Bonenfant et l’esprit des institutions, 2018

Constitutional Principles in the Secession Reference

The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution

In Reference Re Secession of Quebec, 1998, the Supreme Court of Canada concluded that the unwritt... more In Reference Re Secession of Quebec, 1998, the Supreme Court of Canada concluded that the unwritten constitutional principles of federalism and democracy dictated that the clear repudiation of the existing constitutional order and the clear expression of the desire to pursue secession by the population of a province gave rise to a reciprocal obligation on all parties to the federation to negotiate constitutional changes to respond to that desire. To understand this astonishing decision, the author first examines how, over time, in Canada and Quebec, issues of identity(ies), constitutional law, and democracy came to be formulated in absolutist terms, making political compromises next to impossible. Only then does he analyse the Supreme Court’s decision and attempts to explain why the latter chose to decide as it did.

Ceintures Fléchées and Wampum Belts: Quebec and Indigenous Peoples in the Canadian Federation

L'Indépendance Judiciaire et la Cour Suprême: Reconstruction Historique Douteuse et Théorie Constitutionnelle de Complaisance

Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 1998

The recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in the Reference re: Remuneration of Judges in... more The recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in the Reference re: Remuneration of Judges in the Provincial Court of Prince Edward Island has given judicial independence a surprising interpretation. A majority of the Court stated that this principle requires legislative bodies to establish independent procedures for setting judicial salaries. The Court maintained that the basis of judicial independence is to be found in the preamble of the Constitution Act, 1867, rather than the express provisions of the constitutional text. The authors argue in Part I of this article that the Court transformed fundamentally and without reason traditional conceptions of the sources of Canadian constitutional law. According to this new paradigm, underlying structural principles can serve to fill gaps in the protection afforded by the textual provisions which are themselves seen as incomplete expressions of the underlying principles. Part II discusses the legal relationship between a judge and th...

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