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RODERICK MACDONALD
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Faculty of Law
McGill University
3644 rue Peel
Montréal, (QC)
Canada H3A 1W9
Phone: (514) 398-8914
Fax: (514) 398-3233
Email: roderick.macdonald@mcgill.ca
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Roderick A. Macdonald is currently F.R. Scott Professor of Constitutional and Public Law at McGill University, where he has taught since 1979. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1996, to the International Academy of Comparative Law as an Associate Member in 2004 and to the Insolvency Institute of Canada in 2004. He was the first Law Fellow of the Pierre Trudeau Foundation, an honour he received in 2004. Between 1997 and 2000 he served as founding President of the Law Commission of Canada. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1977 and to the Quebec Bar in 1983.
From 1975-1979 he taught at the Faculty of Law of the University of Windsor, first as an Assistant Professor and then as an Associate Professor. Between 1977 and 1979 he was Director of that Faculty's Community Law Programme. He joined the Faculty of Law of McGill University in 1979. From 1981-1983 he was Associate Dean (Academic) of that Faculty, and from 1984-1989 he was Dean of Law at McGill University. He was promoted to the rank of Full Professor in 1984, and in 1996 was appointed to the F.R. Scott Chair in Constitutional and Public Law.
Between 1984 and 1987 he served on the Study Committee of the Quebec Ministry of Justice examining the proposals of the Civil Code Revision Office relating to security on property and publication of rights. He was appointed a Fellow in the Law and Society Programme of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research in 1998 and from 1989-1994 he served as the Director of that Programme – later re-named the Law and the Determinants of Social Order Programme. Between 1989 and 1991 he was the Chair of the Task Force on Access to Justice of the Quebec Ministry of Justice. The Report of this Task formed the basis of revisions to the legal aid plan, the small claims court, class actions and civil procedure generally. He was Scholar-in-Residence at the Ontario Law Reform Commission between 1991 and 1993.
He has prepared studies and reports for several Royal Commissions, including the Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects (Macdonald Commission) and the Royal Commission Aboriginal Peoples (Dussault-Erasmus Commission). He prepared the major background study on alternative to civil litigation for the Ontario Civil Justice Review. Between 1994 and 1997 he was a consultant to the Federal Department of Justice in connection with the project to Harmonize Federal Legislation with the Civil Code of Québec. From 2002 – 2004 he was been a consultant to the World Bank in Ukraine and drafted that country's current law on secured transactions. In 2003 and 2004 he was a consultant on civil judgement execution with the CIDA-sponsored Legal Reform Project in the Republic of Vietnam. Since 2002 he has been a member of the Canadian delegation to UNCITRAL.
He was a Visiting Professor at Osgoode Hall in 1989 and U.B.C. in 1996. He has also been an invited professor at the Australian National University, the University of Victoria, the University of Toronto, the University of Aix-Marseilles, and the Masters Programme at Onati sponsored by the International Institute for the Sociology of Law. He has been a lecturer in Australia, New Zealand, the U.K., France, Italy, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Israel, and the United States.
Mr. Macdonald has written numerous governmental reports and published over 250 articles and notes (in both English and French) on topics in constitutional law, administrative law, civil law, commercial law, the philosophy of law, and the sociology of law. He is also the author of three monographs and eight studies commissioned and governments in Quebec, Ontario and Canada.
Publications
LESSONS OF EVERYDAY LAW (Montreal: McGill-Queen's Press for the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University and the Law Commission of Canada, 2002) xiv, 283 pages.
SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: A TREATY FORUM (Ottawa: Law Commission of Canada and B.C. Treaty Commission, 2001) i, 193 pages (co-editor with B. Bonneville).
RESTORING DIGNITY: RESPONDING TO CHILD ABUSE IN CANADIAN INSTITUTIONS (with S. Zimmerman, and others) (Ottawa: Law Commission of Canada, 2000) xvi, 455 pages.
"L'hypothèse du pluralisme dans les sociétés démocratiques avançées" (2202) 33 REVUE DE DROIT DE L'UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE 133-152.
"Pluralisme juridique à Kahnawake" (1998) 38 CAHIERS DE DROIT 681-720 (with H. Quillinan, A. Lajoie, G. Rocher).
"Metaphors of Multiplicity: Civil Society, Regimes and Legal Pluralism" (1998), 15 ARIZONA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW 69-91.
"What is a Critical Legal Pluralism?" (1997), 12 CANADIAN JOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY 25-46 (with Martha-Marie Kleinhans).
"ReCommissioning Law Reform" (1997), 35 ALBERTA LAW REVIEW 831-880."Legal Bilingualism" (1997) 42 MCGILL LAW JOURNAL 119-167.
"The Design of Constitutions to Accommodate Linguistic, Cultural and Ethnic Diversity" in K. Kulcsar and D. Szabo, eds., DUAL IMAGES [:] MULTICULTURALISM ON TWO SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC (Budapest: Royal Society of Canada - Hungarian Academy of the Sciences, 1996) at 52-84.
"Recognizing and Legitimating Aboriginal Justice: Implications for a Reconstruction of Non-Aboriginal Legal Systems in Canada" in ABORIGINAL PEOPLES AND
