Sébastien Grammond - Dean, Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section
Sébastien Grammond was appointed Dean of the Civil Law Section of the Faculty of Law July 1, 2009.
Biography:
Sébastien Grammond is Associate Professor and Vice-Dean (Research) at the Faculty of Law (Civil Law Section) of the University of Ottawa. He holds a LL.B. and a LL.M. from the Université de Montréal, as well as a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, with a thesis on the legal regulation of membership in indigenous peoples and linguistic minorities. After his clerkship with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, he began practising law in 1994 with Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP in Montreal, specialising in native law, constitutional and administrative law and construction law. Since 2004, he has been teaching contractual obligations and native law at the University of Ottawa. His research focuses on minority and indigenous peoples rights, in particular on the relationship between law and indigenous identity. In matters of private law, his interests pertain to the interpretation of contracts and contractual justice. He is the author of several publications in those fields. His latest book, Aménager la coexistence: les peuples autochtones et le droit canadien (2003), was awarded the prize of the Quebec Bar Foundation for the best law treatise written in Quebec in 2002-2003. He frequently appears in the media, commenting upon subjects with a legal dimension. He received the President’s Award for Service to the University through Media and Community Relations (2006). He is a member of the Quebec and Ontario bars.
