Welcome to our newest colleagues at the Faculty of Law
The Faculty of Law extends a warm welcome to the four new colleagues.
Professor Hoi Kong has been hired as an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) effective 1 August 2009. A former clerk to Supreme Court Justices Claire L’Heureux-Dubé and Marie Deschamps, Professor Kong, BA’94, MA’94, BCL'02, LLB’02, has taught at Queen’s and Columbia. He holds a Master’s of Law from Columbia, where he is currently completing a Doctorate of Juridical Science. His research interests include comparative law and constitutional law, and he will be teaching classes on the administrative process and on comparative federalism next winter.
Dr. Alicia Hinarejos joined the Faculty of Law on 1 July 2009 as a Boulton Fellow. She holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science of McGill’s Faculty of Arts. Dr. Hinarejos holds graduate law degrees from Oxford, UK, and Universidad de Valencia, Spain, and has written several articles on European Union law and human rights law, her areas of specialization. She will be teaching classes on European Community law in the fall and on government control of business in the winter.
Ms Sophie Morin has been renewed as Wainwright Fellow. She holds an LL.B. from Université de Montréal and an LL.M. from McGill. She has submitted her doctoral thesis, titled “Le dommage moral et le préjudice extrapatrimonial”, at Université de Montréal. Sophie Morin has also been a researcher at the Court of Appeal of Quebec and lectured at UdeM’s Faculty of Law. Morin has been a Wainwright Fellow at McGill’s Faculty of Law since December 2008, where she is currently collaborating on projects at the Quebec Research Centre of Private and Comparative Law. Her research interests include the relationship between law and feelings, the conceptualization of civil responsibility, the various forms of reparation and the study of legal and judicial discourse.
Mr. Han-Ru Zhou joined the Faculty on 1 August 2009 as a Boulton Fellow. Mr Zhou, who holds an LL.B. from Université de Montréal and an LL.M. from Harvard, is currently completing his doctoral degree at Oxford. His thesis is titled “The Legal Effects of the Rules and Principles Implied from the Canadian Constitution and Derived from the English Constitution.” He has been a member of the Barreau du Québec since 2002 and was clerk to Supreme Court Justice Marie Deschamps in 2006-2007.