Étienne Cossette-Lefebvre

Étienne Cossette-Lefebvre serves as Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, specializing in property law, trusts, comparative private law, and legal theory. His work engages foundational questions across law of persons, privacy, obligations, and successions.

Academic credentials include:

• BCL, LLB (Honours) from McGill University
• LLM from University of Toronto
• Doctorate in progress at University of Toronto Faculty of Law

His research explores self-ownership frameworks for bodily autonomy, image rights, and personal information through trans-systemic comparative law lenses. Current projects intersect legal history, philosophy, and privacy jurisprudence with practical applications in Canadian civil law.

Award recognitions feature:

• Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholarship
• Nelson Mandela Honorary Bombardier CGS Doctoral Award

As graduate supervisor for LLM/PhD candidates, he mentors research aligned with his expertise. He collaborates with the United Nations Observatory on Human Rights and previously held roles as Assistant Director of McGill's Paul-André Crépeau Centre, research lawyer for Québec Court of Appeal, and law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown.