Étienne Cossette-Lefebvre is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, and an incoming Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Osgoode Hall Law School. He feels privileged to be a Collaborator at the Observatory on Human Rights at the UN. During his doctoral studies, Étienne was a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar and a Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholar in Honour of Nelson Mandela (2021-2024). He was also an Adjunct Assistant Professor and Fellow in Property Law at Queen’s University, Faculty of Law, where he taught Property Law, and a course lecturer at McGill University, Faculty of Law, where he taught the Law of Trusts. During the 2020-2021 academic year, he was the Assistant Director of the Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law (2020-2021). Before his graduate studies in law, Étienne clerked at the Court of Appeal of Québec (2015-2018), and for Justice Russell Brown at the Supreme Court of Canada (2018-2019). His research interests include the law of property, the law of persons, the law of privacy, the law of obligations, the law of successions, comparative law, legal theory and philosophy, and legal history. His work on comparative law has already been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada (6362222 Canada inc. v Prelco, 2021 SCC 39, para. 46, 48, 61, 63, 70, 78, 80).
Research Interests: the law of property, the law of persons, the law of privacy, the law of obligations, the law of successions, comparative law, legal theory and philosophy, and legal history.
Graduate Research Supervision (LLM, PhD): I am interested in supervising topics related to the law of property, the law of persons, the law of privacy, the law of obligations, the law of successions, comparative law, legal theory and philosophy, and legal history.