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Jean-Christophe Bédard-Rubin is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law. His research primarily focuses on Canadian constitutional culture from historical and comparative perspectives. He has studied law, political science, and philosophy at Université Laval, Yale University, and the University of Toronto. Additionally, he has contributed to consultancy work on constitution-building with International IDEA and has experience working in litigation for the Quebec Department of Justice. His current projects delve into the intellectual history of public law in French Canada, aiming to reconstruct intellectual networks among French Canadian public lawyers and to examine the transatlantic influences that shaped Quebec’s legal syncretism. Bédard-Rubin’s work sheds light on Canada’s constitutional experience and interrogates issues within comparative constitutional scholarship. He is also undertaking a research initiative that investigates judicial bilingualism in Canada, employing mixed social science methods to explore its empirical effects on judicial behaviour and its normative implications for the authority of judicial decisions, along with the ways language influences perceptions of judicial roles within Canada’s bilingual public spheres. His work has been published in various academic journals, including the Review of Constitutional Studies and the Canadian Journal of Law & Society.
Department of Sociology