Dr. Ejan Mackaay

Biography

Ejan Mackaay is a researcher and emeritus professor at the University of Montreal, specializing in the economic analysis of law and intellectual property. His research aims to improve accessibility to law through practical and theoretical contributions using multiple scientific disciplines including legal informatics, econometrics, and law economics. He became a Fellow at CIRANO (Interuniversity Research Centre in Organization Analysis) in 2009, after directing the Center for Public Law Research (1999-2003) and the Center for Business Law and International Trade (2005-2008) at the University of Montreal. A correspondent for the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a retired lawyer from the Quebec Bar, Mackaay holds an LL.M from the University of Toronto and both an LL.M. and a Doctorate from the University of Amsterdam. He is regularly invited to participate in international conferences and has given guest lectures at universities in Oxford, Paris, Brussels, Montpellier, Ghent (Belgium), Santiago (Chile), Buenos Aires, and Victoria (British Columbia), among others. He has delivered lectures in various universities globally including Oxford, Hamburg, Hanover, Göttingen, and São Paulo. He received the Minerve Prize from the Dutch Society of Translators for translating the Dutch civil code into French and was appointed honorary professor at Universidad San Martin de Porres, Lima, Peru. Mackaay is the author or co-author of numerous works, including 'Law Economics Civil Law Systems', Edward Elgar, 2013, which won the Vogel Prize in 2013.

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