The chairholder will be asked to propose an ambitious research program fostering a better understanding of how municipal, national and international legal frameworks determine the ways cities develop and their capacity to respond adequately to their own pressing issues, such as crises in housing and homelessness, increasing social inequality, needs pertaining to mobility, accommodations and a green transition, and local repercussions of global geopolitical tension.
The person selected will hold a regular, tenure-track position in the Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section, and play a major leadership role in research and the education of graduate students. This person will have the opportunity to collaborate with the main bodies making up the Faculty of Law research enterprise, including the Public Law Centre; Human Rights Research and Education Centre; Centre for Environmental Law and Global Sustainability; Centre for Law, Technology and Society; Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics; and the Canada Research Chair in Mental Health and Access to Justice.
Tier 1 Chairs, tenable for seven years and renewable once, are for outstanding researchersacknowledged by their peers as world leaders in their fields. For each Tier 1 Chair, the institution receives $200,000 annually for seven years. Nominees for Tier 1 Chair positions must be Full Professors or Associate Professors who are expected to be promoted to the Full Professor level within one or two years of the nomination. Alternatively, if they come from outside the academic sector, nominees must possess the necessary qualifications to be appointed at these levels. New CRC nominees are also eligible for infrastructure support from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to help acquire state-of-the-art equipment essential to their work.
The Civil Law Section is proud of its extensive record of innovative, influential and globally focused legal research and teaching. Its professors benefit from the section’s strategic position within the University of Ottawa and Canada’s capital, a place of meeting and exchange between different legal traditions, including, of course, civil law, but also common law and several Indigenous legal systems. Working in French as well as in other languages, our researchers and jurists lead both large- and small-scale research projects and teams, working closely with researchers in several disciplines and building on major national and international research networks.
Deadline: December 23, 2026.
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