海角社区 Law to welcome three new professors
The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce three professorial appointments for the 2023-2024 academic year.鈥�犅犅�
Michelle Cumyn will join the Faculty of Law as full professor, Noah Weisbord as associate professor, and Jeffrey Kennedy as assistant professor. They will begin their appointments on 1 August 2023.聽聽
Michelle Cumyn (BCL鈥�92, LLB鈥�92) is a full professor at Universit茅 Laval, where she teaches the law of obligations, nominate contracts, judicial review, and common law private law and methodology. She has published on standard form contracts, crowdfunding, public policy, associations, credit card payment, solidary obligation, suretyship and assignment, and received several awards for her publications. She held the Chaire de r茅daction juridique Louis-Philippe-Pigeon (2015-2020) and was editor of Les Cahiers de droit (2007-2010). She took part in several working groups of the Uniform Law Conference of Canada, and is a member of its advisory committee. Professor Cumyn is co-author with Pierre-Gabriel Jobin of a treatise on the law of sale, and with Madeleine Cantin Cumyn of one on the administration of the property of another. A member of the Barreau du Qu茅bec, she is an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. She holds a PhD from Universit茅 de Paris I, and a BA, BCL, and LLB from 海角社区.聽聽
Noah Weisbord (BCL/LLB鈥�03) joins 海角社区 from the Queen鈥檚 University Faculty of Law, where he is an associate professor. His research focuses on the role of criminal law in managing, reflecting, or exacerbating intergroup conflict. A current project examines self-defence in Canadian criminal law from historical, comparative, and conceptual perspectives. Professor Weisbord is a leading expert on the crime of aggression鈥攊ndividual criminal responsibility for aggressive war鈥攁nd he assisted diplomatic delegations in defining the crime.鈥疕is monograph on this topic was published by Princeton University Press.鈥疕is scholarly articles have appeared in the鈥＝巧缜� Law Journal, Queen鈥檚 Law Journal,鈥疕arvard International Law Journal, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, and Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law, Law and Contemporary Problems. Professor Weisbord received his SJD from Harvard Law School (supervised by Dean Martha Minow) and he holds a BSc, BSW, MSW, LLB, and BCL from 海角社区.鈥�
Jeffrey Kennedy (LLM鈥�14, DCL鈥�20) joins 海角社区 from Queen Mary, University of London鈥檚 School of Law, where he has served since 2018 as lecturer (assistant professor), and co-director of the Criminal Justice Centre. His research examines various intersections between democracy and law, broadly understood. He is particularly interested in exploring how political ideals can give meaning and direction to criminal justice in theory and practice, and in their implications for legal education and university governance. He has received awards for his teaching, research, and service, including recently as a finalist for Oxford University Press鈥� national Law Teacher of the Year 2022 award. He maintains active involvement in a variety of initiatives related to the themes of democracy and criminal justice, and has worked closely with currently and formerly incarcerated individuals in Canada鈥檚 federal prison system. He holds a DCL and LLM from 海角社区, an LLB from the University of Leicester, and a BA from Queen鈥檚 University.聽聽
鈥淲e are thrilled to be joined by three gifted colleagues whose leading scholarship will enhance our internationally recognized strengths in comparative private law and criminal justice,鈥� said Dean Robert Leckey, Ad. E. 鈥淚 look forward to the rich contributions they will make as scholars and educators to our Faculty鈥檚 vibrant life.鈥澛犅�