Alain Roussy
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Alain Roussy
Associate Professor
Room: 57, Louis-Pasteur St., Room 393
Office: 613-562-5800 ext. 7914
Work E-mail: aroussy@uOttawa.ca

Biography
Alain Roussy will be on sabbatical for the 2019-2020 academic year.
Alain Roussy 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.
Since March 2017, he also acts as director of pratiquO, the Faculty's new French-language continuing professional development centre.
The main focus of his research is on professional responsibility and legal ethics.
Courses (taught or presently teaching)
- 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)
- 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