Alain Roussy is currently Vice-Dean of the French Common Law Program of the Common Law Section at the Faculty of Law. Immediately prior to this nomination, he was Vice-Dean Governance (2022), Dean (interim, 2021-2022) and Vice-Dean of the French Common Law Program (2020-2021).
He completed his undergraduate studies (B.Sc., 1998) and legal studies (LL.B., 2002, French common law program) at the University of Ottawa. He completed his articles as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada with the Honourable Justice Ian Binnie and was then called to the bar as a member of the Law Society of Ontario in 2003.
He subsequently joined Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP in Toronto as a lawyer practising business law. In 2005, he joined Heenan Blaikie LLP in Toronto where he practised in litigation and labour law. In 2008, he became in-house legal counsel at the University of Ottawa handling a wide range of legal matters for the University. He completed his master (LL.M.) in 2012 at the University of Ottawa and joined the Faculty of Law as a professor in January 2013.
In 2015-2017, he was a member of the Ottawa Health Science Network Research Ethics Board. Since 2016 he is a member of the board of directors of the Canadian Association for Legal Ethics (CALE). In 2016, he received two fellowships: the Fall 2016 National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism (NIFTEP) Fellowship and the 2016-2017 Ontario Bar Association (OBA) Foundation Chief Justice of Ontario Fellowship in Legal Ethics and Professionalism Research.
He is the proud recipient of a 2016-2017 Excellence in Teaching Award at the Faculty of Law.
In 2017-2019, he also acted as first director of pratiquO, the Faculty's French-language continuing professional development centre.
The main focus of his research is on professional responsibility and legal ethics.