Gabriel Cadieux has been a PhD student in Law at the University of Ottawa since 2025. His primary areas of specialization are property law and legal history. His research focuses on contemporary applications of legal engineering in property law, particularly in the context of agroecological social-purpose trusts, as well as on legal history, with a particular emphasis on the history of legal concepts in private law. Prior to beginning his doctoral studies, Gabriel Cadieux completed an LL.L. at the University of Ottawa (2024) and an LL.M. at the University of Ottawa (2025). His master’s thesis examined how Roman law and its rediscovery during the Middle Ages contributed to the development of the modern conception of public ownership in property law.
In addition, Gabriel Cadieux is a member of a research group examining legal and sociological issues related to video games. As part of this interdisciplinary project, Gabriel Cadieux studies, among other things, the relationship between virtual content purchased by players online and the legal categories of property law, as well as the validity of video game privacy policies under private law. Before teaching law, he worked in the field of taxation within the Canadian federal government.