Justice Nicholas Kasirer has made substantial contributions to research and teaching across Canada’s common and civil law traditions. He has authored more than 100 publications and 12 books on civil law, comparative law and jurilinguistics. In 2019, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada by then-prime minister Justin Trudeau.
Since 1990, he has been secretary and member of the editorial committee of the Private Law Dictionary / Dictionnaire de droit privé at the Faculty of Law at McGill University. Since 2006, he has been a titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law (Paris). In 2009, he was appointed a justice of the Court of Appeal of Quebec, where over the past 10 years, he has rendered many judgments in various fields such as private law, criminal law and public law, including constitutional law.
A respected bilingual jurist, professor and legal scholar, Justice Kasirer is also a member of the editorial committees of the Revue du notariat, the Revue de droit de l’Université de Sherbrooke, the Louisiana State University Journal of Civil Law Studies, the ISAIDAT Law Review of Turin (Italy) and the Revue internationale de droit comparé in Paris.
From 1989 to 2009, Justice Kasirer was a professor at McGill University’s Faculty of Law, serving as its dean from 2003 to 2009. He was also a visiting professor at various universities, including Université Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne).
He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2008, was awarded an honorary doctorate in law by the Université de Sherbrooke in 2013 and is the recipient of numerous prestigious international honours.