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Étienne Cossette-Lefebvre serves as Adjunct Assistant Professor and Fellow in Property Law at Queen's University Faculty of Law while completing his PhD in law at the University of Toronto. He maintains affiliations as Junior Fellow at Massey College and collaborator at the International Observatory on Human Rights at the UN.
His educational credentials include:
- B.C.L./LL.B. (Honours) from McGill University (2014), featuring Dean’s Honour List recognition and Quebec Association of Comparative Law essay prize
- Master of Laws from University of Toronto (2020)
Research examines personal law, property law, obligations law, succession law, comparative law, legal theory and philosophy, and legal history through trans-systemic analysis. His doctoral dissertation innovatively applies self-ownership concepts to bodily autonomy, image rights, voice ownership, and personal information governance.
Major distinctions comprise:
- Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholarship (2021-2024)
- Nelson Mandela Canada Graduate Scholarship (2021-2024)
- Quebec Comparative Law Association essay award (2013-2014)
- McGill University Dean’s Honour List
Professional experience includes research lawyer at Quebec Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Canada law clerk for Justice Russell Brown (2018-2019), and McGill University lecturer with deputy directorship at the Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law (2020-2021). Current scholarly activities integrate Trudeau Foundation research with UN human rights observatory collaboration.
