Pascal McDougall is an associate professor with tenure at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law (Civil Law Section). His scholarship deals with comparative and international labor law, international economic law, international human rights law, and European Union law.
Professor McDougall’s current projects aim to elaborate proposals to make labor law more responsive to the needs of low-wage workers globally. Among other things, he has devoted sustained attention to the impact of trade, macroeconomic, and development policies on labor law's redistributive potential, particularly in the Global South and the peripheral states of the European Union. This has led him to place international law, and regional legal orders like EU law, at the core of his research, even in the study of the most putatively “local” labor market or social outcomes.
Professor McDougall is co-editor of Labour and Employment Law: Cases, Materials, and Commentary, a leading Canadian casebook on domestic and international work law published by the University of Toronto Press. He is also a recurrent visiting professor at Sciences Po and Université Panthéon-Assas in Paris where he teaches courses in international/comparative labor law and law and development.
Professor McDougall holds an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School (2021), an LL.M. from the University of Toronto (2013), and a Licence en droit from the University of Ottawa (2011). He has worked as a lawyer at the Confederation of National Labor Unions in Montreal (2014) and has clerked for Justice Clément Gascon at the Supreme Court of Canada (2015-2016). Prior to joining the University of Ottawa in 2021, he was a visiting researcher at the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory at McGill University and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.