Nicholas Kasirer

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Nicholas Kasirer
Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Assumed office
TBD
Nominated byJustin Trudeau
Appointed byJulie Payette
MonarchElizabeth II
Governor General
Prime Minister
Preceded byClément Gascon
Puisne Justice of the Quebec Court of Appeal
In office
2009–2019
Nominated byStephen Harper
Appointed byDavid Johnston
Personal details
Born (1960-02-20) February 20, 1960 (age 64)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Alma materUniversity of Toronto, B.A
McGill University, B.C.L., LL.B.
University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, DEA
Université de Sherbrooke, LL.D.

Nicholas Kasirer (born February 20, 1960) is a justice with the Quebec Court of Appeal, having been appointed in 2009.[1] He is a graduate of the McGill University Faculty of Law, where he served as an editor for the McGill Law Journal,[2] and where he later served as a Professor from 1989 to 2009 and Dean of the Faculty from 2003 to 2009.[1] He has written more than a dozen books on legal matters and taught classes on the law of obligations, property law, family law, and wills and estates law in both civil and common law. On 10 July 2019 he was nominated to the Supreme Court of Canada by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. On August 7, 2019, he was officially appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada effective as of September 16, 2019. [3]

References

  1. ^ a b "CURRENT JUDGES OF THE COURT: The Honourable Nicholas Kasirer". Retrieved April 22, 2013.
  2. ^ "Masthead, Volume 30". McGill Law Journal. 1984. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  3. ^ "Prime Minister announces appointment of the Honourable Nicholas Kasirer to the Supreme Court of Canada".