Notable Previous Faculty Members
- Irwin Cotler (human rights lawyer, Member of Parliament and former Canadian Minister of Justice)
- Paul-André Crépeau (responsible for drafting the new Civil Code of Quebec)
- Julius Grey (Quebec Human Rights Lawyer)
- John Peters Humphrey, (founding Director of the United Nations Human Rights division and principal drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
- Nicholas Kasirer (scholar of civil law, comparative law, and law and language, Dean of the faculty 2004-2009, Quebec Court of Appeal judge)
- Yves-Marie Morrissette (scholar of civil law and comparative law, Quebec Court of Appeal judge)
- F.R. Scott (constitutional rights lawyer, civil libertarian and poet)
- William Tetley, C.M., Q.C., LL. L. (former Quebec Cabinet Minister, scholar of maritime law)
- Stephen Toope (international law scholar, President of the University of British Columbia)
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