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Michelle Cumyn is a Full Professor at McGill University's Faculty of Law and Co-Director of the Paul-André Crépeau Center for Private and Comparative Law. She previously held the Louis-Philippe-Pigeon Chair in Legal Writing at Université Laval (2015–2020) and directed the Minerve collection at Laval University Press. Her expertise spans civil law, comparative law, and legal methodology, with a focus on contracts, consumer protection, crowdfunding, and trust law.
Education: PhD in Law (Université de Paris I, 2000), BCL/LLB (McGill University, 1992). She has been an academic visitor at Oxford University, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and Queen's University.
Research interests include legal categorization, cognitive approaches to legal reasoning, and digital legal information systems. She has collaborated with experts in cognitive psychology and information science, leading projects funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Her work emphasizes comparative law and legal harmonization, reflected in her roles with the Uniform Law Conference of Canada and international academic networks.
Publications include co-authored books on sales law and property administration, as well as numerous peer-reviewed articles. She has received awards for her scholarly contributions to civil law and legal methodology.
Professional activities include advisory roles in legal reform initiatives, such as Canada-Mexico-American joint projects on contractual associations and commercial leasing harmonization.
She is affiliated with the Paul-André Crépeau Center, the Fondation Claude Masse, the International Academy of Comparative Law, and the Quebec Bar.
