Pascale Cornut St-Pierre

Pascal Cornut St-Pierre

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Pascal Cornut St-Pierre
Associate Professor

Ph.D., École de droit de Science Po, Paris, 2017
B.C.L. / LL.B., Université McGill, 2013
M.A., Philosophie, Université de Montréal, 2009
B.A., Philosophie, Université de Montréal, 2007

Room
57, Louis-Pasteur, room 307
Phone
613-562-5800 poste 6564


Fields of interest

  • Business Law
  • Financial Law
  • Corporate Law
  • Sociology of Law
  • Law and Globalization
  • Philosophy and Critical Approaches to Law
  • Modes of Legal Tought and Legal Argumentation

Biography

Pascale Cornut St-Pierre is associate professor and Vice-Dean, Research at the Civil Law Section of the Faculty of Law of University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on the ways in which business communities perceive, mobilize and develop the law in the course of their activities. Her works deal mainly with corporate and financial law, but draw heavily on research from the social sciences, such as sociology of law, economic sociology, political economy and critical studies. 

Professor Cornut St-Pierre holds a B.A. (2007) and a M.A. (2009) in philosophy from the Université de Montréal, an integrated degree in civil law and common law from McGill University (B.C.L./LL.B., 2013), and a Ph.D. from Sciences Po Law School (2017). Her doctoral dissertation, which focuses on the role of legal work in contemporary financial innovation, was awarded the Prix Jean Carbonnier de la recherche sur le droit et la justice, as well as the Prix solennel André Isoré de droit privé from the Chancellerie des Universités de Paris. It analyses the role and techniques of standard-form contracts, like the ISDA Master Agreement, in the emergence of new financial instruments and the development of their global markets. Professor Cornut St-Pierre’s current research explores other types of financial innovation, including green finance and fintechs, as well as financial illegalities.

Before joining the Civil Law Section, Professor Cornut St-Pierre was a lecturer in sociology of law and in advanced civil law obligations, at Sciences Po Paris and at the Faculty of Law of McGill University. She is a member of the Observatoire pluridisciplinaire sur le devenir du droit privé of the Civil Law Section of the Unviersity of Ottawa, an Associate Member of the Perelman Centre for Legal Philosophy and an Affiliated Research Scholar to the Canadian Climate Law Initiative.

Publications

Pascale Cornut St-Pierre,La fabrique juridique des swaps : quand le droit organise la financiarisation du monde, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2019, 325 p.

Courses taught

  • DRC 2501 - Droit de l’entreprise 1 : formes juridiques de l’entreprise
  • DRC 4593 – Droit de l’entreprise 3 : droit financier
  • Past courses : DRC 1500 - Introduction au droit ; DRC 4590 – Droit de l’entreprise 2 : la société par actions ; DRC 3500 - Exposé juridique : droit financier ; DRC 4729 - Sociologie du droit, DRC 4772 B - Dissertations juridiques.