Alain Roussy

Alain Roussy is currently Vice-Dean of the French Common Law Program of the Common Law Section at the Faculty of Law.  Immediately prior to this nomination, he was Vice-Dean Governance (2022), Dean (interim, 2021-2022) and Vice-Dean of the French Common Law Program (2020-2021).

He completed his undergraduate studies (B.Sc., 1998) and legal studies (LL.B., 2002, French common law program) at the University of Ottawa.  He completed his articles as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada with the Honourable Justice Ian Binnie and was then called to the bar as a member of the Law Society of Ontario in 2003.  

He subsequently joined Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP in Toronto as a lawyer practising business law.  In 2005, he joined Heenan Blaikie LLP in Toronto where he practised in litigation and labour law.  In 2008, he became in-house legal counsel at the University of Ottawa handling a wide range of legal matters for the University.  He completed his master (LL.M.) in 2012 at the University of Ottawa and joined the Faculty of Law as a professor in January 2013.  

In 2015-2017, he was a member of the Ottawa Health Science Network Research Ethics Board.  Since 2016 he is a member of the board of directors of the Canadian Association for Legal Ethics (CALE).  In 2016, he received two fellowships: the Fall 2016 National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism (NIFTEP) Fellowship and the 2016-2017 Ontario Bar Association (OBA) Foundation Chief Justice of Ontario Fellowship in Legal Ethics and Professionalism Research.

He is the proud recipient of a 2016-2017 Excellence in Teaching Award at the Faculty of Law.

In 2017-2019, he also acted as first director of pratiquO, the Faculty's French-language continuing professional development centre.

The main focus of his research is on professional responsibility and legal ethics.

• Responsabilité professionnelle (CML3776)
• La responsabilité professionnelle et les enjeux de la pratique de droit (CML4545)
• Compétences et habiletés juridiques (CML1611)
• Compétences et habiletés juridiques (CML1511)
• Délits civils (CML1637)
• Délits civils (CML4542)
• Torts (CML4342)
• Insolvabilité et faillite (CML3712)

Presentations at conferences (future or past)

• Canadian Bar Association Conference, "From BigLaw to NewLaw", March 2021, online
• Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Ontario (AJEFO), Conference on Professional Responsibility, December 2020, online
• Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Ontario (AJEFO) Annual Conference, June 2019, Sudbury
• Conference of the French Network of Ontario Community Legal Clinics, June 2019, Ottawa
• pratiquO Conference in Calgary on Family Law and the Practice of Law in French, June 2019
• Summer School in International Humanitarian Law, University of Ottawa's Human Rights Research and Education Centre, Ottawa, May 2019
• Annual Conference of Southwestern Ontario Community Legal Clinics, May 2019, London, Ont.
• Law Society / AJEFO / pratiquO Conference on Official Languages in the Courts, March 2019, Toronto
• Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Ontario (AJEFO) Annual Conference, June 2018, Moncton
• Summer School in International Humanitarian Law, University of Ottawa's Human Rights Research and Education Centre, Ottawa, May 2018
• Annual Conference of Southwestern Ontario Community Legal Clinics, May 2018, London, Ont.
• pratiquO Conference on Professional Responsibility, March 2018, Ottawa
• Annual Continuing Legal Education Conference, Office of the Judge Advocate General (JAG), February 2018, Ottawa
• CALE (Canadian Association for Legal Ethics) Conference, October 2017, Halifax
• Northern Ontario Colloquium 2017, October 2017, Sudbury
• French Counsel Network, Ontario government, October 2017, Toronto
• Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Ontario (AJEFO) Annual Conference, June 2017, Ottawa
• Summer School in International Humanitarian Law, University of Ottawa's Human Rights Research and Education Centre, Ottawa, May 2017
• Annual Regroupement étudiant de common law en français (RÉCLEF) Conference, March 2017, Ottawa
• The Rules of Professional Conduct and Language Rights Symposium, March 2017, Ottawa
• Annual Continuing Legal Education Conference, Office of the Judge Advocate General (JAG), March 2017, Ottawa
• Conference of the Professional Responsibility Service of the Department of Justice, February 2017, Montreal
• CALE (Canadian Association for Legal Ethics) Conference, October 2016, Edmonton
• Fall 2016 Workshop of the National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism (NIFTEP), October 2016, Macon, Georgia (U.S.)
• International Legal Ethics Conference 2016 (ILEC 2016), July 2016, New York
• North American Consortium on Legal Education (NACLE), March 2016, Monterrey, Mexico
• Annual Continuing Legal Education Conference, Office of the Judge Advocate General (JAG), March 2016, Ottawa
• Cavanagh LLP / Regroupement étudiant de common law en français (RÉCLEF) Conference, February 2016, Ottawa
• CALE (Canadian Association for Legal Ethics) Conference, October 2015, Montreal
• Annual Institute of Family Law, County of Carleton Law Association, May 2015, Montebello, Quebec
• CALE (Canadian Association for Legal Ethics) Conference, October 2014, London, Ontario
• Annual Continuing Legal Education Conference, Office of the Judge Advocate General (JAG), October 2014, Ottawa (written material)
• Agents of Parliament Conference, September 2014, Ottawa
• Canadian Association of Law Teachers Conference, June 2014, Winnipeg, Manitoba
• National Military Law Conference, Canadian Bar Association, June 2014, Ottawa
• CALE (Canadian Association for Legal Ethics) Conference, October 2013, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
• Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Ontario (AJEFO) Annual Conference, October 2013, Ottawa

Publications

• See on SSRN site