MARIE-FRANCE FORTIN

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Professor Fortin completed her LL.B. at Université Laval in Québec City (during which time she also completed part of her studies at the Université de Paris II, Panthéon-Assas) before clerking at the Supreme Court of Canada for the Honorable Morris J Fish. A recipient of the Rt Hon Paul Martin Sr Scholarship, she attended the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, where she completed her Master's degree in International Law (LLMi) before completing her LLM at Harvard Law School as a Frank Knox Fellow. After years of practice, both with leading Canadian law firms and various levels of government as a member of the Quebec Bar, she studied at the Université de Montréal before returning to Queens' College to complete her doctorate at the University of Cambridge (PhD) as a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar under the supervision of Professor J.W.F. Allison.

Her interests lie in public and constitutional law, legal thinking in a historical perspective, state liability and accountability, constitutional theory, comparative public law, the private/public law divide in mixed legal systems, and water law and governance. She is the author of The King Can Do No Wrong: Constitutional Fundamentals, Common Law History, and Crown Liability, published by Oxford University Press. 

• Professeure agrégée, Faculté de droit, Section de droit civil, Université d’Ottawa
• Professeure adjointe, Faculté de droit, Section de droit civil, Université d’Ottawa

• Directrice des études par intérim, Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge (R.-U.)

Citée par la Cour suprême du Canada dans : 
Sanis Health Inc c Colombie-Britannique, 2024 CSC 40
Québec (Procureur général) c Pekuakamiulnuatsh Takuhikan, 2024 CSC 39
 

• Droit constitutionnel : principes fondamentaux
• Responsabilité de l’État
• Droit constitutionnel comparé
• Droit comparé : Responsabilité de l’État (États-Unis, France, Québec et Canada)
   

• Bourse doctorale de la Fondation Pierre Elliott Trudeau
•  Special Fulbright Canada Fellow
• Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship
• Fulbright Student Award for Graduate Studies (Déclinée)
• Bourse d’études du Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Société et culture (Déclinée)
• Bourse très hon. Paul Martin père, Institut canadien d’études juridiques supérieures