Yaëll Emerich
Full Professor Canada Research Chair in Transsystemic Property and Sustainable Communities
Yaëll Emerich is a full professor at the McGill Faculty of Law and holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Transsystemic Property and Sustainable Communities.
Her interests include all facets of private and comparative law, legal theory, and the relationship between law and language. As a specialist in comparative and transsystemic property law, she teaches mainly Property Law and Secured Transactions, and is especially interested in the interplay between property law and major social issues, including environmental issues. She studies the relationship between property law and other major areas of law (property and environmental law, property and contract law, property and secured transactions, property and trusts, property and public law). She is always interested in supervising postgraduate research in these fields.
Professor Emerich is a Titular Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. She was the Director of the Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law from 2016 to 2018, having been its Interim Director (2013) and continues to be a permanent Titular Member. She is also a member of the Québec Society of Comparative Law, the Henri-Capitant Association and the Québec Law Professors’ Association. Doctor in Private Law from Quebec and French Universities, she holds a post-doctorate from McGill, a master’s degree in Private Law from Paris II, a D.E.A. in Philosophy of Law from Paris II and a D.E.A in Private Law from Lyon 3, where she was a research fellow.
Professor Emerich’s monograph, entitled Conceptualising Property Law : Integrating Common law and Civil Law Traditions (Droit commun des biens : perspective transsystémique (Elgar, 2018) won the Walter Owen Book Prize, It also received a prize in the Legal Competition of the Québec Bar Foundation and an honourable mention from the International Academy of Comparative Law. In 2022 she received the Germain Brière Prize (Senior Category) for her article “La résurgence des communs en droit des biens contemporain : étude sur les cohabitats écologiques et les ruelles vertes,” co-authored with François Peter-Edmond Rivard, BCL/JD’20.
Contact Details
- yaell.emerich@mcgill.ca
- https://www.chaire-dbtcd.org/
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